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Comment on Heinz Nurture… nightmare product launch by Media Training

Media Training — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:52:53 +0000

Why all the fuss over this baby milk ingredients list?

Babys are wrapped in so much cotton wool these days that its no suprise so many children are ill when they grow older.

Leave them outside in the cold, feed them rubbish and let them play in the mud!

Comment on Cillit Bang’s Barry Scott… PR blog gone mad by HollY1991

HollY1991 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:03:20 +0000

barry scott is a fantasdtic chareter whomhas brought joy to many people i agree with the person who sed it probaly wont help them sell products apart from the kids who buyu it just to spray at each other around the streets of there town but he’s loverly and bring entertaintment to adverts as apose to the crappy droll that we have to sit though such as “injury lawyer 4 u” and “direct line” who bore most people crapless and force them to change channels and have them then miss half of there show…well thats me at least

Comment on Crisis public relations management… but should consumers trust Cadbury? by Sheba

Sheba — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:57:41 +0000

I know this incident happened a long time ago, but I think that this was a very important learningn factor for the people involved and even those in related fields. The role of the PR in this case was not properly executed and thus added on to people’s prejudices that Pr Personnel are liars. I think it is very important that we rose above the prejudices and did what we are supposed to be doing as PR Personnel, to avoid further incidences like this in future. The Cadbury’s saga may have worked out well in the long term, but this would have turned out to be a different story all together.

Comment on Heinz Nurture… nightmare product launch by Jane

Jane — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:40:27 +0000

So ‘it is far superior to the other brands out there’ is it, Helen? How do you work that out then? Having looked into all of the formula milks I can’t really see that argument stacking up, especially against the likes of Aptamil. If baby so desperately needed all of this stuff Heinz have decided to crow about being ’so much better’ then what was Farleys given that ‘it [Heinz Nurture] is a totally new formula and completely different to the old Farley’s milk’ - worse than the other brands? Not sure Mum’s who have been using that milk would be too pleased to hear that.
I personally feel really disappointed with the Heinz approach to this.

Comment on Heinz Nurture… nightmare product launch by Karon Hotchkiss

Karon Hotchkiss — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:49:33 +0000

We (my husband and I) have noticed this reformulation, and have been very careful to investigate what may have prompted this relaunch. The use and labelling of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils may well have started it off; but Heinz appear to have put more vegetable oil in the baby milk (cheaper ingredient) in the form of structured vegetable oils.
This spray drying micro-particle production process has been used in pharmeuticals for decades, but it requires clinical trials. How do Heinz know in six months what possible effect this man-made vegetable oil nano-particle will do to babies. Have they studeied its metabolism, effect on the liver or effect on the eyes??? No.
Other formula milk producers are putting EVEN more vegetable oils into their products, and the future risk of things like heart desease and altzheimers is unacceptable, due to the levels of unnatural trans fatty acids. The EC directive of 3% max is rubbish, since countries like Denmark and Australia have set levels of 1% to nil in everyday food stuffs; this is baby milk for heaven’s sake! Somebody get a grip…

Comment on Wickes’ Jeremy Bird in ‘not god’ shock by Phil Wilkinson

Phil Wilkinson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:54:29 +0000

Did you manage to get the address of their corporate HQ to write a complaint to Jeremy?

Comment on Manchester Confidential outflanks Evening News as voice of Manchester by RJ

RJ — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:39:08 +0000

I agree that Manchester Confidential is very much an advertorial. In a decent publication, they show enough integrity to clearly state when an article has been paid for by putting “ADVERTISING FEATURE” in big letter at the top of it. On the Confidential websites, you have to check the “client list” to find that the majority of reviews and editorials are written about businesses who have paid money to Planet Confidential. In addition, so called journalists are permitted to write articles about businesses that they are commercially involved with, such as Lynda Moyo’s review of Red Rooms (run by Bruntwood who are commerically involved with her interest).

Any publication worth its salt would make it extremely clear which articles are unbiased, and which are commercially inappropriate rather than dressing them all up the same. It makes it hard to trust anything Manchester Confidential writes.

Manchester Confidential, and in particular Lynda Moyo just smack of poor journalism and low integrity

Comment on Heinz Nurture… nightmare product launch by Sally Jones

Sally Jones — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:59:24 +0000

Compared to other baby milks this product now contains alot more vital ingredients and also contains Omega 3 & 6, whereas the others don’t.

Very few Farleys tins had the info leaflet informing of the name change and they did fail to inform of the price increase. When I telephoned Farleys to complain about the sudden price increase I was told “well it now matches the others!” I also contacted them to ask if there was a problem supplying the milk and they had no idea, I searched in over 15 outlets in 1 day to get the old or new heinz milk and failed. I had to change my baby’s milk to another brand.
I truly believe that part of the change was to increase the price. I have triplets and 1 week I was spending £13.80 on milk, the next week it cost me £23.94 each week. I was not prepared for this and when I notified the staff at Farleys they couldn’t care less. Well A big thank you to you at Farleys/Heinz, hope you’re happy, could’ve had decency to have told us!!!

Comment on Virgin Media Vs Sky: it’s the content stupid! by P

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:16:26 +0000

Virgin has a better package deals but their customer services are terrible. They ignore complaints refuse to admit that their service is poor and their set top boxes are low grade materials and therefore low quality.

I was with sky for 6 years and I had not one fault.
Within 6 months of being with Virgin Media I was tearing my hair out!

Virgin would be far superior to Sky if only they cared about their customers!

Comment on Heinz Nurture… nightmare product launch by Omead

Omead — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:40:37 +0000

OK dear, why not have both products on the market if they are SO different? We used to buy Farley’s milk, and cannot believe what a move totally based on greed has been made in the Heinz camp. Its shame you make it so obvious you work for them too, I suggest a move to the marketing dept for you, as PR really isn’t your game!