Cash Generator shortlisted for national award

Discount retail client, Cash Generator, has successfully been nominated for the much coveted bfa Franchisor of The Year Award. After Mere PR submitted a detailed entry we were delighted to find out our hard work had paid dividends for the buy, sell and loan store.

Cash Generator now faces some stiff competition on the night from the likes of McDonalds and Belvoir lettings, but here at Mere PR we’re quietly confident that the Bolton based company can triumph. Good luck Cash Generator!

Purrrrfect coverage for Olly and bmibaby

Coverage in the MEN for Olly and bmibaby

A stray cat is taking centre stage in bmibaby’s latest competition.  The low cost airline used its Facebook page to encourage members of the public to nominate their suggestions.  After being inundated with entries, Manchester Airport’s ginger moggie, Olly has been shortlisted to have an aircraft named after her. 

Such is the interest in the loveable feline that the Manchester Evening News has picked up on the follow up press release.  Purrrrfect coverage for Olly and bmibaby.

Mere PR re-appointed by Cash Generator

Mere PR is delighted to have been re-appointed by Cash Generator to form part of a dedicated team of North West agencies that have been tasked with driving forward its 2011 PR and marketing campaign.  With exciting nationwide expansion plans, Mere PR will be responsible for store openings up and down the country, as well as recruiting new franchisees to the Cash Generator network.

A season of store openings for Cash Generator

Mere PR’s retail team is taking on a festive challenge of its own – with no less than 12 Cash Generator stores set to open their doors to excited shoppers before Christmas.

From Inverness to Clacton-on-Sea, Mere PR will ensure that each new Cash Generator store will benefit from its own bespoke local opening combining regional PR support, radio and footfall driving events and in store promotional activity.

Busier than Santa’s elves, the Mere PR retail team will be travelling the length and breadth of the UK between now and the start of the Christmas break to ensure each and every new store gets off to the best possible start and makes the most of the forthcoming festive trading period.

Attention ladies! Are you the Face of Halo?

The Mere PR office is currently being inundated with photos of women of all ages who are hoping to become the new face of client Halo’s fantastic beauty wipe range.

Aimed at women who are always out and about, the products are ‘must have’ handbag essentials for today’s busy multi-tasking fearless female.

To highlight this, Mere PR has kick started a nationwide hunt to find a woman that best encompasses everything the brand represents who will win the opportunity to star in a future Halo marketing and promotional campaign. Launched through a variety of media platforms, the campaign has been picked up well by newspapers, websites and bloggers and is continuing to attract entries through Halo’s Twitter feed.

If you think you have what it takes to be the next Face of Halo, enter by logging onto www.halowipes.co.uk.

Best of luck ladies!

STREET STAR LAUNCHES LUXURY SPA

Coronation Street star, Samia Smith (aka Maria Conner), joined Mere Golf and Country Club owner and CEO, Mark Boler, to lay the first brick of the fantastic new five star spa.

Celebrating the first stage of the Club’s £13 million redevelopment, Samia officially launched The Spa, the Club’s new £4 million beauty and leisure facilities.

Samia Smith is one of the first members of The Spa at Mere and is looking forward to going swimming with baby Freya and the family.

She said: “I am delighted to be asked to help make the first dig for the foundations for the new pool and spa. I particularly enjoy massages and facials when I get the chance, which is not often these days with Freya,

Samia Smith about to lay the first brick of the new spa at Mere Golf and Country Club

but I will be making more time in the future now I have seen the plans for The Spa”.