Our recent farce of a general election, where the bottom half of the UK turned blue and the top half red and yellow with some orange dotted around in between, brought it home to me how different the UK is and how we have gone back more to being four separate countries more than any time in our recent past. This has implications for us as marketers I believe that we need to take into account more.

Having spent the run up to, and the actual election, in Scotland it proved a very interesting experience. Travelling up through the country from Cambridgeshire – true blue agricultural East Anglia – into Yorkshire, Cumbria and then most of the length of Scotland, the blue conservative banners disappeared and the yellow banners (not of the Lib Dems) but of the SNP, started to appear everywhere.  Talking to Scottish friends, they feel very nationalistic and have no interest at all about what goes on in Westminster, identifying very strongly with the SNP and indeed that was borne out in the actual election result.

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N Brown Group, whose catalogues include JD Williams, Oxendales and Simply Be, has turned to Red C to rebrand High and Mighty, which they purchased out of Administration in 2009.

The new look for the clothing retailer sees the brand repositioned as a place that understands that it is the clothes that make the man. As well as a new logo and positioning, Red C has been involved in producing all store messaging, from window graphics to in-changing room advice guides.

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