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Honda

As Honda Europe's lead Direct agency, we are responsible for trade and consumer car launches across 27 European markets.

Most recently, we've created dealership toolkits, with both on and offline elements, for the Honda CR-Z, the Honda Jazz and the Honda Civic.

We also work closely with other roster agencies to ensure consistent communications that strengthen the Honda brand experience.

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Liz Bojarczuk
European Product Launch Manager
Honda

"The Honda Jazz is innovative, dexterous and playful, and the toolkit Elvis have created perfectly encompasses these key elements."

Sky

Since being appointed to Sky's digital roster, we now execute a range of customer and acquisition digital marketing programmes, from strategic and data planning to creative concepting and digital design, as well as developing the bimonthly call centre guide, the Sky Buddy.

Mondelez

Mondelez International, the world's largest confectionery business, appointed us to their UK digital roster in 2012. We have currently been working with Cadbury Creme Egg on a 'Cling to Your Fling' social media campaign, with plans to work across some of their other power brands this summer.

Sonia Carter
Head of European Digital Marketing and Social Media, Mondelez International

"We have selected the most exciting UK and Irish agencies to work with our best-loved brands, such as Creme Egg, Wispa and Green & Blacks."

"The agencies will also collaborate to help drive the digital agenda for the UK business and I look forward to working with them."

Virgin Trains

Since we were appointed to Virgin Trains four years ago, we have won 31 awards for our integrated campaigns for them.

Our giant Liverpool Wall personalised digital poster secured us a Cannes Lion and a place in the D&AD annual, and 'Don't Go Zombie' was their 'most effective campaign ever'.

We also redesigned their e-commerce website, substantially increasing ticket sales.

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Annerie Hughes
Head of Marketing
Virgin Trains

"Thanks so much for all your hard work on the "Fly Virgin Trains..." campaign, it really stands out!"

"Your strong customer insight, passion and creativity have delivered us a campaign of which we are all so proud."

Auto Trader

Part of our appointment to the Trader Media Group in 2011, we are currently working with Auto Trader to reposition their B2B communications.

As the UK's leading automotive dealer network, we are working across all BTL channels, in particular DM, to raise awareness of business value and improve the brand perception within their core consumer group.

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Matt Thompson
Marketing Director
Auto Trader

"Auto Trader already has a large customer base, however we believe that taking this new approach will enable us to harness these customers more effectively, through communicating value and this will further improve ongoing brand perceptions and advocacy."

Sailor Jerry

Tattoos, music and rum – Sailor Jerry is a great brand to be working with!

We created a replica of the original tattoo parlour in Honolulu and bought it to the UK's biggest festivals for the last two years.

Ink City was a mix of live tattooing, live music, an original airstream and of course, Sailor Jerry cocktails. We have something very special planned in London this summer, so watch this space.

Mitchells & Butlers

Mitchells & Butlers are our longest standing client of 7 years.

Managing 10 of their pub and restaurant estates, we're their lead strategic and creative agency and work as a long term partner to develop activity for both on and offline.

Brands we currently work on include Nicholson's, Vintage Inns, O'Neill's, Ember Inns and Crown Carveries.

Premier Foods

We work with Premier Foods to lead the strategic conception and development of the widely appraised online hub 'Great Little Ideas'.

We also take on individual brand projects for the likes of Oxo, Batchelors, McDougalls and most recently an experiential activity for Angel Delight.

Kerry Doble
Procurement Manager
Premier Foods

"A dynamic, friendly and hard working bunch. The team at Elvis are reliable and highly organised; they work to the plan and always go that extra distance to deliver against requirements."

"They explore all avenues and are happy to work collaboratively. They remove the admin and generate results."

"What a pleasure. And they make it look fun... Can I have a job there please?"

Digital UK

In the lead up to the analogue to digital TV Switchover across the country, Elvis has been responsible for the creative development of a phased regional roll out for all of Digital UK's direct communication.

Kate Greenough
Senior Direct Marketing Manager
Digital UK

"Working with Elvis is a real pleasure, their collaborative approach makes me feel like they're an extension of my team."

"They're very committed and deliver every campaign on time and without a hitch. Any requests outside planned work are met with eager enthusiasm and are dealt with promptly."

"They make my job easy and most importantly, they make it fun!"

Jurys Inn

After a recent rebranding, Jurys Inn came to us to help raise awareness to corporate business travellers with an outdoor campaign at key hotspots around the UK and supporting online activity.

We dug deep into what Jurys Inn means for its customers and have developed a creative concept around their hotel experience being a warm welcoming space where people can be themselves.

Magners

We work with Magners to create customer activation programmes across the UK, through both the on and off-trade.

We work in conjunction with The Red Brick Road to reinvigorate Magners GB customer marketing.

Our illustration-led Magners Golden Draught launch has already won 4 awards for creativity, with some more exciting campaigns planned for 2012.

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Wrangler

We work with Wrangler to create and deliver seasonal, multi-tiered retail activations across EMEA.

To date, the work has been activated across 23 countries, inside 660 stores and in 14 languages.

Recent activations have included Second Skin, Worn Across America and the Follow Your Instincts Lomography collaboration which generated a 538% sales increase in France during the campaign.

Marc Svojanovsky
Sales Director
Wrangler Europe

"I've been working at Wrangler for many years and I can honestly say 'Second Skin' is the best retail activation I've ever seen"

NBA

We're both a strategic and creative partner to NBA and have had a fantastic time delivering experiential activations and eCRM programmes across EMEA.

Joe Calzaghe and Rio Ferdinand helped us secure a social media following for the first time in our grass roots Take it to the Courts events, and we've just launched the first multi-language online fan portal.

Darrell McLennan Fordyce
Director of Marketing Communications
NBA Europe

"The NBA already has a very successful US-based eCRM programme so giving our fans a more localised NBA experience with relevant content is an important part of our desire to deliver the excitement of the NBA and to grow the game across the UK and Europe"

Yakult

We have developed the first FMCG website designed using progressive enhancement technology.

Reflecting new browsing behaviours, we redesigned the Yakult website to allow consumers to view the site across multiple mobile devices.

This forms the basis of our digital and CRM strategy for the brand, based upon the habitual consumption of the product and the renewed service function of the site.

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Andrew Nash
Sales and Marketing Director
Yakult

"The digital platform is the first stage in our strategy to encourage loyalty among our customers."

"Over the longer term we will be developing a series of tools and apps to help our consumers maintain a healthy gut and lifestyle."

Virgin

Last summer, we developed a fun experiential campaign for the Virgin group, to raise brand awareness and engage staff and consumers alike.

We brought our colourful 'Summer of Love' ice-cream van to the various Virgin brand offices and to key Virgin sponsored consumer events around the UK, with corresponding social media activity.

Sir Richard Branson even served up a few ice-creams from the van himself at the Virgin Active Triathlon!

Natalie Johnson
Senior Brand Manager
Virgin

"This activity is about saying thank you to our teams and our businesses. And as it lives predominantly on our social media channels, we wanted to thank our loyal fans and customers who already engage with us online."

"It's a genuine and fun piece of goodwill brand building."

CIWF

As the National Winner for the Big Bus Challenge last year, we were lucky enough to have our winning bus designs for Compassion in World Farming made into a real campaign for the non-for-profit organisation.

Bus advertising worked perfectly and powerfully for Stop Live Exports – a campaign opposed to the long distance transportation of live farm animals.

Juxtaposing the cramped conditions in which live farm animals are forced to travel with the comfortable, everyday mode of transport we enjoy has really helped raise awareness of the issue.

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Johnston Press

We have recently been appointed by Johnston Press to relaunch everyone of their 170 regional newspaper titles as the company aims to embrace "platform neutral" publishing.

Through integrated campaigns, including outdoor, press, radio, online, email, CRM and direct marketing, we will be relaunching their newspapers and associated websites by the end of 2012.

Ashley Highfield
Chief Executive Officer
Johnston Press

"Our publishing strategy going forward will ensure that we give our local audiences what they want."

"While providing our existing audiences with an even better product, both in print and online, we will extend our audience by increasing our online content and making it easier to access in the most relevant ways as technologies continue to evolve."

Virgin Trains
Frequent Flyers

A new Virgin Trains service whisks you between London and Birmingham in record time. They asked us to challenge their competitors and celebrate the fact with an appropriately exciting cut-through campaign.

Honda Civic
Pan-European Launch

For the launch of the new Honda Civic, we needed to develop trade and consumer collateral kits to start conversations around the car across the 27 European markets. A car testament to the amazing journey their engineers have been on in the last four years and the principles they've learned along the way. Principles such as the importance of experimenting, and following 'happy'.

Magners
Golden Draught Launch

Bars are busy, noisy and dark. Our challenge was to launch a new crisper, drier variety of Magners made from harder to crush apples into this environment.

Compassion In World Farming
Stop Live Exports

Unknown to many, live transportation continues to subject British farm animals to unnecessary suffering. In 2011, cattle exports to Europe increased three-fold to over 80,000. Our campaign objective? To make people aware of the horrors of the live export trade – and help us stop it.

Vintage Inns
Find Your Countryside

Warmth. Hospitality. Unique British-ness. That's what Mitchells and Butlers wanted people to know they could expect from each and every one of their Vintage Inns country pubs – a national estate of over 200 outlets, known for their independence and individuality. Each has their own name, history and personality so we needed to create a campaign which tapped into this.

Auto Trader
Dealer Activation

Our role for Auto Trader is to reposition the brand to fortify their number one position in the market. We are dramatically strengthening customer satisfaction and perceptions of value for money across all dealership communications, with the ultimate commercial objective being increased customer value and product holding.

Yakult
Website Redesign

Yakult, the pioneer in probiotic heath drinks, required a new brand website. This aimed to change perceptions of a product surrounded in scientific jargon to one with a simple proposition: healthy behaviours result in a healthy, enjoyable lifestyle.

Virgin Holidays
Rockstar Service

Virgin Holidays believe that great service is the right of every customer - not just the preserve of the VIPs. So we dug right into the heart of what truly makes a Virgin Holiday worthy of someone's hard-earned cash and came up with a new brand of holiday: 'Rockstar Service.'

Our
Awards

2013

  • MAA Best Award - Best Creative POS: Magners, Cider Garden Transformations
  • MAA Best Award - Merit: Best Creative Ambient Media: Magners, Cider Garden Transformations
  • Travel Marketing Awards - Silver: Virgin Holidays, The Holiday Workout, Best use of Affinity Marketing

2012

  • Ocean Outdoor Awards - Second: Compassion in World Farming, 'The World.s First Real Live Feed'
  • Chip Shop Awards - The Big Chip (Grand Prix): TFL, Considerate Suicide
  • Ocean Outdoor Awards - Runner Up: Sky NOW, 'Roundabout Recommender'
  • IPA Effectiveness Award - Bronze: Virgin Trains, 'Don't Go Zombie'

2011

  • IPM Award - Silver: WKD, Win Nothing Social Media
  • Marketing Week Engage Award - Finalist; 'Brand Innovator of the Year'
  • MAA Awards - 'Best Agency of the Year'
  • MAA Awards . Merit: Virgin Trains, Don't Go Zombie, 'Best Creative Digital Communication'
  • MAA Awards . Merit: Virgin Trains, Don't Go Zombie, 'Best Illustration'
  • MAA Awards . Merit: Virgin Holidays, Rockstar Service, 'Best Communication Campaign featuring Advertising'
  • MAA Awards . Merit: Virgin Holidays, Rockstar Service, 'Best Communication Campaign featuring Advertising'
  • MAA Awards . Merit: Virgin Trains, Don't Go Zombie, 'Best Integrated Communications Campaign'
  • Marketing Magazine Awards - Finalist, 'Direct Agency of the Year'
  • Travel Marketing Awards . Silver: Virgin Holidays, Rockstar Service, 'Best TV Ad'
  • Travel Marketing Awards . Silver: Virgin Holidays, Rockstar Services, 'Awards Best Direct Mail'
  • Travel Marketing Awards . Gold: Virgin Holidays, Rockstar Service, 'Best Integrated Campaign'
  • John Caples Email . Finalist: Virgin Trains, Route Planner Email
  • John Caples Microsite . Bronze: Virgin Media, Sofa Stadium
  • John Caples Direct Mail . Silver: Honda CRZ DM
  • IPM Award . Bronze: Drench, One Beat Ahead Augmented Reality
  • IPM Award . Silver: WKD, Win Nothing Social Media
  • IPM Award . Silver: WKD, Win Nothing Social Media
  • MAA Awards . Merit: Virgin Holidays, Rockstar Service, 'Best Creative Advertising Communication'
  • Big Bus Challenge Awards - National Winner: Stop Live Exports, 'Compassion in World Farming'

2010

  • DMA Award - Gold: Virgin Holidays, Sale Campaign, 'Travel & Tourism'
  • DMA Award . Gold: Virgin Trains, Route Planner Email, 'Best Use of Email Marketing'
  • IAB Digital Creative Showcase March - 2nd place: Drench, One Beat Ahead
  • D&AD Book: Virgin Trains, Liverpool Wall
  • One Show Interactive . Merit: Virgin Trains, Liverpool Wall
  • Creative Review Award : Virgin Trains, Liverpool Wall, 'Best in Book'
  • Chip Shop Chip Award - Best Consumer Ad or Campaign
  • Chip Shop Vinegar Award - Best Ad Applied to An Unusual Medium
  • NMA Awards . Finalist: Virgin Trains, Liverpool Wall, 'Effectiveness'
  • MCCA . Merit: Virgin Trains, Liverpool Wall, 'Best Writing'
  • MCCA . Winner: Elvis Communications - Graceland, 'Best Professional Innovation by an Agency'
  • MCCA . Winner: Virgin Trains, Liverpool Wall, 'Best Digital Advertising'
  • MCCA - Winner: Virgin Trains, Liverpool Wall, 'Best Communication Campaign featuring digital/interactive marketing'
  • MCCA . Winner: Virgin Trains, Liverpool Wall, ' Best Communication Campaign featuring paid for media'
  • MCCA - Winner: 'Best of the Best'
  • IPA Effectiveness Awards - Silver and Best Short-Term Effect: HMRC Self Assessment
  • BIMA . Winner: Virgin Trains, Route Planner Email, 'Leisure & Tourism'
  • DMA Award. Gold: Virgin Trains, Route Planner Email, 'Best Use of Email Marketing'
  • DMA Award. Gold: Virgin Holidays, Sale Campaign, 'Travel & Tourism'
  • Marketing Week Engage Awards . Finalist: 'Agency of the Year'
  • BIMA . Shortlisted: Virgin Media, Sofa Stadium, 'Media & Entertainment'

2009

  • Cannes Lion Outdoor - Shortlisted
  • Cannes Lion Media - Bronze & Shortlisted
  • MCCA - Merit: 'Best Writing for Direct Marketing'
  • MCCA - Merit: 'Best Art Direction for Direct Communications'
  • MCCA - Merit: 'Best Illustration'
  • MCCA - Merit: 'Best Communications Campaign Featuring Paid-for Media '
  • MCCA - Winner - 'Best Integrated Communication Campaign'
  • MCCA - Winner - 'Best Art Direction for Digital/Interactive Communications'
  • MCCA - Winner: 'Best of The Best'
  • The Sunday Times Small Business Awards - 'Best Company for giving something back'
  • Marketing Agency of the Year 2009 - Runner Up
  • MCCA - 'Agency of the Year 2009'
  • MCCA - Winner: 'Best Client of the Year'
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