Category: Business

  • Like a Tesco product on Facebook, get loyalty points

    BrandRepublic reports that UK retailing giant Tesco has launched a trial promotion that rewards Facebook users with points in its Clubcard customer loyalty programme if they ‘like’ a product in Tesco’s online supermarket, Tesco Direct. […] Tesco currently has 839,703…

  • What do you know about BPA and food packaging?

    If you’re a listener to the FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast that I present with my colleague Shel Holtz every Monday, you will have heard our report in this week’s episode on US food company Progresso, a subsidiary…

  • The pros and cons of dedicated WordPress hosting

    Some web hosting companies specialize in delivering services dedicated to very specific types of software. WordPress is one example of popular open source software that a hosting company may feature. There are both advantages and disadvantages to this type of…

  • Barclays cultural crookery and immorality

    What a destruction of trust in this report of what people in Barclays Bank have been doing behind the scenes and for which the bank has been fined £290 million. […] Former City minister Lord Myners told the BBC that…

  • The journey begins: guidance from the CIPR on PR and Wikipedia published

    It’s taken quite a while but it’s finally here – Wikipedia Best Practice Guidance for Public Relations Professionals: version 1 of a document that sets out a formal picture on how the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) believes public…