Making financial sense.
Our latest campaign for Canada Life is now landing on desks of financial advisers across the UK – aimed at increasing interest in the company’s group income protection product.
With a focus on employee rehabilitation – and commitment to looking at what they CAN do rather than what they can’t, Canada Life plans to help more people return to work than ever this year, providing financial savings for employers and helping ensure they remain as productive as possible.
A welcome change to traditional group income protection policies.
New Year. New Direction.
R!ot Squad Music starts first adventure…
We’re delighted to announce that R!ot Squad Music will soon be helping to put Bedford’s Esquires back on the national map.
Using our design, advertising, promotion and PR experience we’ll be focused on attracting music – and entertainment – lovers to the iconic venue which has previously hosted the likes of Muse, Elbow and The Libertines.
The official handover is due to take place early next week and top of our list is to start looking at refreshing the identity and planning a launch event in addition to investigating advertising opportunities.
A great start to 2011!
*the above article comes from Bedford Times & Citizen on Thursday 6th January, 2011 – click here to see more
Guess Who? REVEALED – Pt.4
And last, but by no means least, we can reveal that the final picture is of…. a Buddha statue!
This item was chosen by the R!ot’s Office Manager and expert mince pie baker Tracy, to represent her experiences of living in the Far East.
Having the good fortune to be born in Singapore and to be taught by Buddhist monks, Tracy grew up speaking 5 languages, one being English, practicing several martial arts and became a Master in rice making. She travelled through many countries before arriving in the UK to share her skills which she continues to do to this day.
Like the Buddha she is the enlightened one, born out of compassion to care and nurture the world – we’re hoping that bringing this little Buddha into the office will help us achieve peace and harmony when things get a bit riotous…
Tracy also loves risotto. We mean really loves it. Just so you know…
Guess Who? REVEALED – Pt.3
The most cryptic of the pictures can now be revealed and it is in fact…. a mini grand piano!
Account Manager by day, pianist extraordinaire by night, Liv has played the ‘old Joanna’ since she was just three years old, and spends many an evening and weekend accompanying singers and drama groups in Bedford.
Sadly, she doesn’t have a piano at her new house so this tiny version will have to do until she’s saved enough for a life-size one – although Rob has hinted that he might set up a keyboard in the R!ot meeting room to add to the ever-increasing number of musical instruments in the office.
Now all we need is for Mark to learn to play the drums and for Tracy to take to the mic and we have our very own R!ot band!
We already do a mean rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody…..
Guess Who? REVEALED – Pt.2
The union jack camper van revealed…
For those of you that don’t already know our MD is a very keen (and some say talented) musician. The union jack camper van is his – and it’s an intriguing (and he swears true) story.
Back in the late 70’s, with the onslaught of punk, Rob took a different course and joined the psychedelic modsters – The Electric Parsnips. They toured Europe in their Union Jack liveried VW Camper van and it was whilst in France they met a wizard in the dark and smoky back street cafes of Paris. The Wizard’s name was Sweet Frowning Atchualpa (Sweet FA to his fellow druids) and following an argument over who is the best singer – Robert Plant or Sacha Distel – he cast a spell on the band. On returning to their beloved van after the gig they found it had turned into nothing more than a tiny toy version of its previous modtastic self.
So, this is the actual Electric Parsnips tour van from the late 70’s – reduced in size by an angry French wizard. It’s rumoured that if you’re in the office alone late at night you can hear lo-fi tunes playing from the van’s cassette player…*
*Some of this information may NOT be true.
Guess Who? REVEALED – Pt 1.
Well, some of you were quick off the mark (no pun intended) with this one and guessed that the bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale was supplied by none other than R!ot Squad Account Director, Mark Sowerby.
Epitomising Mark’s northern roots and his occasional like for a relaxing beer, ‘Newcy Brown’ – as it has affectionately become known – also had an influential role to play with one of Mark’s other loves in life, Newcastle United Football Club.
For a number of years the iconic blue star adorned his beloved black and white stripes and was, by all accounts, one of the all-time classic football strips. Well, when we say ‘all accounts’, we mean Mark’s.
Like Mark, the ale is well-travelled and has appeared in numerous countries around the world including Japan, America and Thailand – bringing the best of the North East of England to the four corners of the globe.
Mark was also involved in the original design of the bottle’s packaging when it was introduced in 1925.*
*one of the above statements is not true.
