"Go to work on an egg ""Go to work on an egg"" was an advertising slogan used by the United Kingdom's Egg Marketing Board during the 1950s as part of more than £12 million it spent on advertising, including a series of television adverts starring the comedian Tony Hancock and actress Patricia Hayes in 1965. The commercials were created by British director, Len Fulford. The proposition was that having an egg for breakfast was the best way to start the working day. Author Fay Weldon helped to create the campaign. In 2007, plans to rebroadcast the original television adverts were"
"rejected by the Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre, which observed that the adverts did not suggest a varied diet. The advert was instead made available on an anniversary website. Go to work on an egg ""Go to work on an egg"" was an advertising slogan used by the United Kingdom's Egg Marketing Board during the 1950s as part of more than £12 million it spent on advertising, including a series of television adverts starring the comedian Tony Hancock and actress Patricia Hayes in 1965. The commercials were created by British director, Len Fulford. The proposition was that having an egg for"
"for administration and advertising. Slogans used by the board included """"Go to work on an egg"""", introduced in 1957 in a £12 million advertising campaign and turned into a series of television advertisements starring Tony Hancock, Bernard Miles and also featuring Patricia Hayes and Pat Coombs that ran for six years from 1965 to 1971. Other slogans included """"Happiness is egg-shaped"""", """"Eggs are cheap"""", """"Eggs are easy"""" and """"Eggs are full of protein"""". The Board closed down in 1971 and the lion mark was dropped. The lion mark was however revived in 1998 by the British Egg Information Service. Egg"
"Len Fulford Leonard Alfred Fulford (11 November 1928 – 27 November 2011) was a British commercial photographer and director, with a specialty for photography of still life. He was one of the founding members of BFCS. With studios in London, New York, Los Angeles and Milan, BFCS was one of the most successful commercial production companies of all time, winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Advertising Festival an unprecedented six times. Fulford directed the popular ""Go to work on an egg"" television commercials for the Egg Marketing Board during the 1960s. Fulford also directed many of the iconic Guinness"
"the Egg business. Egg used several advertising agencies to produce its advertising. These included CHI & Partners, Lowe Plus and Mother. Egg Card was launched in the United Kingdom with a television campaign by CHI and press advertisements and direct marketing created by Lowe Plus. Among the press advertisements was one showing a sea of urine samples with a headline that read 'We're just taking 10.9% APR. What's your card taking?' The press campaign was created by Colin Underhay and Alex Pearl, who later went on to write the teen novel 'Sleeping with the Blackbirds'. Capitalising on its British success,"
"television commercials of the 1970s and 1980s, along with other memorable spots like the Courage Best 'Rabbit Rabbit' commercial featuring the specially written song by Chas and Dave, and the iconic Simple skincare commercial in which robotic arms spray a pristine white lily with colouring and perfume. His work earned him numerous awards and much recognition. The famous ""Go to work on an egg"" television ad campaign which he directed earned him the nickname ""the eggman"" within the industry. John Lennon makes reference to Len as ""the eggman"" in The Beatles song ""I Am the Walrus"". Len Fulford retired in"
"Egg Marketing Board The Egg Marketing Board was an agricultural marketing organization set up by the British government in December 1956 to stabilise the market for eggs due to a widespread collapse in sales. The Board purchased all the eggs produced in the UK, graded them to a national standard, and then marketed them to shops. Each eggshell was stamped with a small ""lion"" logo as a mark of quality that would be seen by the customer. Egg producers were paid according to the quality of their eggs, less a deduction based on the number of eggs sent to packhouses"
"On Lad"" was voted ""Advert of the Decade"" by the British public in December 2009. Hovis included a number of its employees in the advert. In the opening scene a boy can be seen taking a loaf of bread from a baker dressed in white who says to him, ""there ya go lad"". This baker was actually an employee of Hovis who had worked in the Wigan bakery since 1978. Hovis Ltd. published a series of map books which included advertisements for their products. In 1899 the company produced eight books of maps, covering England and Wales, designed for cyclists."
"£25 for the slogan that he invented. He painted portraits of the Queen, and the Duke of Edinburgh. He married June East in 1951. They had three sons and two daughters. She died in 1986. He remarried in 1989 to Jessie Showell. He retired to Hatton, Derbyshire. John Berry (illustrator) John Leslie Berry (9 June 1920 – 10 December 2009) was a British illustrator. He came up with the idea for the iconic Esso tiger adverts. He was born in Hammersmith. In 1934 he went to Hammersmith College of Art. He served as an official war artist, attached to the"
"Egg, Frederick Richard Lee, Charles Robert Leslie, and Clarkson Frederick Stanfield. The painting was first exhibited the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1851, and was immediately a popular success. It was praised by Queen Victoria in her diary, and by Lewis Carroll, who admired the white rabbit; the work may have influenced the white rabbit in his book ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". After Brunel's death in 1859, the painting was sold at auction in April 1860 and acquired by Lord Robert Pelham-Clinton for £2,800. After the death of Pelham-Clinton, it was acquired by Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow, and later"
"several highly successful and much discussed campaigns on behalf of the Victorian Egg Board and the Australian Dairy Corporation. Victorian egg sales rose 5% in three years. Russell-Clarke’s TV show, ""Come and Get It aired on the ABC during the mid-80s and was Australia's most popular cooking show, broadcasting over 900 episodes."" He frequently used the catchphrase ""G'day"" at the start of segments of ""Come and Get It"". In early 2008, a video surfaced on ""Youtube"" showing a compilation of Russell-Clarke's bloopers containing obscene language. Peter Russell-Clarke Peter Russell-Clarke (born 1935) is an Australian television personality and author, best known"
"toucan do."""") Dorothy L. Sayers and Bobby Bevan copywriters at Benson's also worked on the campaign; a biography of Sayers notes that she created a sketch of the toucan and wrote several of the adverts in question. Guinness advertising paraphernalia, notably the pastiche booklets illustrated by Ronald Ferns, attract high prices on the collectible market. Many of the best known Guinness television commercials of the 1970s and 1980s were created by British director, Len Fulford. In 1983, a conscious marketing decision was made to turn Guinness into a ""cult"" beer in the UK, amidst declining sales. The move halted the"
"lost more than $12 million in Creme Egg sales in the UK. The Creme Egg has been marketed in the UK and Ireland with the question """"How do you eat yours?"""" and in New Zealand with the slogan """"Don't get caught with egg on your face"""". Australia and New Zealand have also used a variation of the UK question, using the slogan """"How do you do it?"""" Over the years, there have been several major Cadbury's Creme Egg campaigns. In North America, Creme Eggs are advertised on television with a small white rabbit called the Cadbury Bunny (alluding to the"
"no promising prospects of a new start in the French-occupied Rhineland after his return from the First World War. The building was later destroyed by a direct hit during the Second World War in 1944. Once production had been resumed after the Second World War, initially at an existing branch in Straubing, construction of today’s headquarters in Bonn commenced in 1952. Viktor Verpoorten was now head of the business and placed an enormous focus on advertising for the first time in the 1960s, when he created the slogan ""Ei, ei, ei [egg, egg, egg] – Verpoorten"" derived from the popular"
"was asked to write a series of television commercials for the Egg Marketing Board starring Tony Hancock and Patricia Hayes. Dave Freeman (British writer) Dave Freeman (22 August 1922 – 28 March 2005) born David Freeman was a British film and television writer, working chiefly in comedy. He was one of the first generation of writers who established television, taking over from radio, as the most popular medium for comedy. A prolific practitioner, he was a master of the pun and double entendre. During the small screen's Golden Age, he wrote scripts for comedians including Benny Hill, Tony Hancock, Ted"
"Wall Street Lays An Egg Wall Street Lays An Egg describes a headline printed in ""Variety"", a newspaper covering Hollywood and the entertainment industry, on October 30, 1929, over an article describing Black Tuesday, the height of the panic known as the Wall Street Crash of 1929 (the actual headline text was WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG). It is one of the most famous headlines ever to appear in an American publication and continues to be noted in history books into the 21st century. ""Laying an egg"" is an American idiom, current particularly in 20th century show business, meaning ""failing"
"well-established to be satirized in ""Punch"". Races were held among the staff of Trinity College, Cambridge until the 1950s. Egg-and-spoon races were held as part of the celebrations for both the 1977 Silver Jubilee and 2012 Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. In 2012, the British Council promoted the egg-and-spoon race as a suitable event for ""English days"", alongside the celebration of Charles Dickens and of the Victorian era. Competitors race either individually or in teams in the manner of a relay race. If the egg falls from the spoon then competitors may be required to stop, retrieve, and reposition"
"a newspaper. Chiswick, who has a horror of publicity, is browbeaten into offering Bicky a secretarial job back in London. Bicky negotiates for a high salary of five hundred pounds a year. They leave. Impressed by Jeeves, Bertie tells him to fetch his shaving things and shave off his moustache. Jeeves, deeply moved, thanks him. ""Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg"" was illustrated by Henry Raleigh in its 1916 publication in the ""Saturday Evening Post"" and by Alfred Leete in the ""Strand"". The story was reprinted in the ""Saturday Evening Post"" in 1980 with illustrations by Phil Smith. The story was"
"Lady Freud. Freud became an Anglican at the time of his marriage. Freud was one of Britain's first ""celebrity chefs"". He worked at the Dorchester Hotel, and went on to run his own restaurant in Sloane Square at a relatively young age. He appeared in a series of dog food advertisements (at first Chunky Meat, later Chunky Minced Morsels) in which he co-starred with a bloodhound called Henry (played by a number of dogs) which shared his trademark ""hangdog"" expression. In 1968, he wrote the children's book ""Grimble"", followed by a sequel, ""Grimble at Christmas"", six years later. Whilst running"
"1923 he entered the advertising company of S.H. Benson and became, what former colleague R.D. Bloomfield described as, ""the personification of the greatest days of English advertising"". It was in his time at Bensons that some of the best known advertising campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s were produced. The products advertised included Guinness, Bovril, Johnnie Walker and Colman’s Mustard (The Mustard Club). Bevan was behind most of them, and he was still handling the Guinness account in the 1950s when he commissioned John Nash to provide colour illustrations to ""Happy New Lear"" (1957). He was behind slogans such as"
"practice. Such controls prevent[ed] the displacement of significant quantities of Canadian dairy products on the Canadian market, and thus protect[ed] [Canadian] producers against losses incurred through having to export all production in excess of domestic demand. In 1981, American economist Thomas Borcherding published his 117-page report entitled ""The Egg Marketing Board"" for the Fraser Institute in which he used the phrase, the ""egg marketing cartel"". In the same year, based on his report, he also wrote several 1981 articles and editorials in ""The Globe and Mail"" about the artificially high-prices of eggs in Canada allegedly caused by a supply management"
"shopping bag for the Lucky Brand Jeans company for the holiday season. As part of 'The Big Egg Hunt' February 2012 Sir Peter Blake designed an egg on behalf of Dorchester Collection. Blake created the carpet which runs through the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom's Middlesex Guildhall building. As he approached his 80th birthday, Blake undertook a project to recreate the ""Sgt. Pepper"" album cover with images of British cultural icons of his life that he most admires. He stated: ""I had a very long list of people who I wanted to go in but couldn't fit everyone in"
"The Incredible, Edible Egg ""The Incredible, Edible Egg"" is a marketing slogan for the American Egg Board. It was created in 1976 by the advertising agency Campbell Mithun. Swann Galleries Saul Mandel Poster Artist 1976 for the Incredible Edible Egg. Swann Galleries is auctioning the original 1976 painting and 1976 Poster on June 5, 2018. In 2012, after over 20 years, a new version of the jingle aired on radio and television and a video of the jingle sung by the egg farmers and their families was uploaded to YouTube, Facebook and Xbox Live (via advertisements on the U.S. Xbox"
"Barry Cunningham (publisher) Barry Cunningham (born 19 December 1952) is a British publisher, who worked for various publishers including Penguin Books and Bloomsbury before setting up Chicken House publishing in 2000. He is most well known for signing J.K Rowling, and publishing ""Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone"" in 1997. Cunningham was born on 19 December 1952 in London. He was educated at Malvern College before studying English Literature at Cambridge University. Cunningham began working at Penguin in 1977 and held the position of marketing director in 1989. He later joined Bloomsbury where he initiated Bloomsbury Children’s Books. While in"
"John Berry (illustrator) John Leslie Berry (9 June 1920 – 10 December 2009) was a British illustrator. He came up with the idea for the iconic Esso tiger adverts. He was born in Hammersmith. In 1934 he went to Hammersmith College of Art. He served as an official war artist, attached to the Eighth Army Between 1961 and 1978 he illustrated thirty five Ladybird books, working alongside Frank Hampson, Charles Tunnicliffe and Harry Wingfield. He worked on their Key Words Reading Scheme. In 1951 he designed the tiger for Esso, that put ""a tiger in your tank"". He was paid"
"produced ahead of Shrove Tuesday and it took a group of four designers and engineers over two hundred hours to build, and over one hundred follow up hours to test. Following the release of the advert, the original contraption was on display at the London Design Museum until June 2013. The Happy Egg Company The Happy Egg Company is one of the UK’s largest free-range egg brands. Originally set up in January 2009 by Noble Foods, the brand’s annual turnover for 2013 was close to £75 million. The brand philosophy is to put the welfare of their hens first and"
"this position he signed J.K Rowling and published ""Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone"". In 2000, Cunningham left Bloomsbury to start The Chicken House, a publisher of children’s fiction that specializes in new writers. Barry also published the books of ""New York Times"" bestselling author Cornelia Funke. In 2010, Cunningham received an OBE in recognition of his contribution to children’s literature. Barry Cunningham (publisher) Barry Cunningham (born 19 December 1952) is a British publisher, who worked for various publishers including Penguin Books and Bloomsbury before setting up Chicken House publishing in 2000. He is most well known for signing J.K"
"after Children's BBC, but also occasionally during ITV commercial breaks. Hale and Pace continued their charity work with a 1992 stint as spokespersons for the National Egg Awareness Campaign. They moved across to the BBC in 1997 and starred in the three-part series, ""Jobs for the Boys"", a non-comedic show in which they took on a variety of employment challenges. One of these challenges was to write the UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. They were advised/mentored by Rick Wakeman, Bruce Welch (from The Shadows - UK entry 1975), Lynsey de Paul (UK entry 1977), Pearl Carr and Teddy"
"sailors, while ""delicately fragrant"" was part of the appeal to the upper-class. The packaging was attractive, posters were omnipresent to show that smoking was a normal part of English life; lobbying was used to undercut the anti-tobacco lobby. In London Thomas J. Barratt was hailed as ""the father of modern advertising"". Working for the Pears Soap company, Barratt created an effective advertising campaign for the company products, which involved the use of targeted slogans, images and phrases. One of his slogans, ""Good morning. Have you used Pears' soap?"" was famous in its day and into the 20th century. An advertising"
"and humour for various publications. In 1902, he moved to London, England, where he contributed to ""Punch"", the ""Review of Reviews"" and ""The Daily Paper"". In 1903, he published ""To be taken with salt: being an essay on teaching one’s grandmother to suck eggs"". McArthur returned to New York in 1904, working as a partner in an advertising agency. In 1907, he published ""The prodigal, and other poems"". He subsequently moved back to Ontario, settling in Ekfrid in 1908. There he worked a small farm and contributed to the ""Toronto Globe"" and the London ""Farmer's Advocate and Home Magazine"". He"
"This version of the PSA, titled ""Brain on Cannabis"", was conceived by creative director Dustin Iannotti, at Las Vegas-based agency Artisans on Fire. It was edited by agency-editor Zach Honea. ""TV Guide"" named the commercial one of the top one hundred television advertisements of all time, and ""Entertainment Weekly"" named it the 8th best commercial of all time. The American Egg Board had an issue with the PSA because they didn't want their product associated with the unhealthiness of drug use. They worried that young children might misinterpret the TV message and think that eggs were harmful. A poster produced"
"and e-mails were sent to Hovis praising the piece. The campaign received dozens of awards from the advertising and television industries, including Golds at the Creative Circle Awards, the Marketing Society Awards, and the British Television Advertising Awards. In 2009, the British public voted ""Go On Lad"" the best television commercial of the decade. ""Go On Lad"" begins in 1886, with an over-the-shoulders view of a boy in a flat cap and brown jacket buying a loaf of bread in a bakery. After making his purchase, the boy leaves the shop into a bustling Victorian-era street, narrowly avoiding being run"
"small towns, extolling the high productivity, and low-cost of the fresh lands. Throughout the century and into the early 20th century, American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand railroads and land agents advertised heavily across Britain. In London in the late 19th century Thomas J. Barratt was hailed as ""the father of modern advertising"". Working for the Pears Soap company, Barratt created an effective advertising campaign for the company products, which involved the use of targeted slogans, images and phrases. This budget reached £80,000 per year. One of his slogans, ""Good morning. Have you used Pears' soap?"" was famous in its"