Fat Cats, Wonga, Driving, Fines, Corruption – Marketing Matters Jan/Feb 2015 ISSUE 42

STORM OVER THE FAT CATS An overdue and welcome storm is building, it seems, over the issues of company and executive greed. The first loud and frightening rumble…

WONGA FINALLY GETS IT Reviled payday lender Wonga has removed its branding from football club Newcastle United’s children’s replica kit after concern from MP’s that…

WATCH THE DRIVING More than £90 has to be added to car insurance premiums to cover the increase in fraudulent whiplash claims, which insurer Aviva say surged by…

FINES FOR BAD PHONE MARKETING Ofcom have fined two companies £20,000 each for making excessive numbers of silent and/or abandoned calls to consumers…

SHEERAZ, ANYONE? Britain’s new food policing unit, set up in the wake of last years horsemeat scandal is to focus on the growing trade in fake wine. One of the signs …

A TASTE OF THE ETHICAL STUFF As gourmet readers will know Waitrose does not sell foie gras – traditionally made in France from the unhealthily swollen livers of …

THE CORRUPTION GAME A student in Valencia has invented a board game that features the corruption rife in the ruling classes of Spanish society. With business …

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