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About us - What we do
 
• Essentially, we’ll help you communicate your messages more effectively, accurately target your customers or potential customers and other relevant influencers.

• Our approach is to listen, understand and devise appropriate strategies that often include campaigns that work with national, regional and trade media.

• We have expertise in creating marketing strategy and also provide crisis management, internal communication, copy-writing for brochures, leaflets and newsletters, website and email newsletters. We manage press relations at exhibitions, devise corporate and social responsibility programmes - in short if there is a communications issue we can help you with it.
 


 

Who we work for

We work in both business to business and consumer markets having devised and implemented marketing and PR campaigns for the following sectors:

• Retail and corporate interior industries


• Leisure, restaurants and bars


• Food industry

 

• Fashion, footwear brands & textile manufacture


• Interior design & furniture


• Business services


• Training and coaching consultancy


• Public sector and not for profit organisations


• Trade and professional associations


• Engineering, electronics and IT


• Universities and colleges of further education

 

 

Some results.................

Case Study
Urban Nights

Background
Urban Nights is a stylish and contemporary range of lounge and sleepwear ideal for relaxing in after a hard days work. Mixing luxurious fabrics and textures with designer style and exquisite attention to detail gives Urban Nights its irresistible edge.

Brief
With the need for a brochure in less than five days to be at an important trade show, the team at Babel with their contacts, know-how and passion to make things happen were called in to deliver fast results.

Solution
The success of the first brochure has led to entrusting Babel to build the brand, moving the brochure style forward to accentuate the seasonal feel of each collection of clothing.

The Babel team has worked closely with the Urban Nights fashion designers to understand how they aspire to present their garments and also strengthen the brand identity. This has led to a major project management role, sourcing new locations suitable for the spring and autumn collection photo-shoots. The look and feel of each new season’s brochure also requires hiring photographers, graphic designers and buying print to ensure that the brochure presents the range to its best possible advantage and is available for the sales team and lingerie trade fair at Harrogate twice yearly.

Babel also provides style direction, bringing together the creative skills of photographers and graphic designers who may never have worked together before.

Client Comment
Aileen Webster who has recently become Intimas Private Label Managing Director commented:” Having just taken up my new role as MD and with only a few days to go before the Lingerie and Swimwear show, it was so good to have an agency on board that simply took the entire headache away from producing the brochure. We are delighted with the results and more to the point so were our customers. That has given us the confidence to appoint Babel to help develop the Urban Nights brand and the way in which we present our range to potential clients. “


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some results..............

 

Case study
Daventry District Council – Low Budget Campaign Resulting in Global Media Coverage

Background
Daventry District Council wished to position itself at the forefront of innovative public transport solutions demonstrated by Personal Rapid Transit (PRT). In September 2007 they held The Daventry Transport Conference 2007, a forum for debating the potential benefits of PRT and related transport technologies for Daventry. Delegates included leading practitioners of pioneering transport solutions and a range of organisations that could influence the progress and development of Daventry’s public transport strategy.

Brief
Babel was appointed by Daventry District Council to implement an awareness campaign communicating the details of the transport conference and the development of Daventry’s PRT programme.

Solution
Planning & Research
Babel compiled information regarding PRT from various sources, carried out interviews with key spokespersons attending the event and worked closely with the Council to gather important technical information.

The main spokesperson for the event was Cllr Chris Millar, Leader of Daventry District Council. Babel compiled a number of potentially detrimental questions and worked with the Council on suitable answers, briefing all potential spokes people so that any negative issues could be dealt with confidently on the day and in front of broadcast cameras.

Due to the tight timescale and target audience a focused media campaign was planned using high-profile trade media, major broadcast news, local and online media.

Results
The broadcast approach ensured key messages were easily communicated, giving an estimated 16.4 million people the chance to read or hear about the conference and the PRT system.

Coverage achieved included:
BBC Breakfast - BBC News 24 - BBC 1 o’clock news - Newsround - BBC Online - BBC Radio 4 - BBC Radio 2 - BBC Radio Northampton -
ITV News (Anglia Region) - Daventry Express - Daventry Chronicle - Northampton Echo - The Independent, plus a number of transport related trade publications.

Based on the print coverage and the BBC Breakfast News item alone a total PR value of £542,801 was achieved.

Since completion of the project we understand from the Council that the story has been picked up throughout Europe and America.

Client Comment
“We are astounded at the amount of really positive comment Babel have secured for us. Their professionalism, particularly in briefing us and handling the TV coverage made media novices feel very secure throughout what has turned out to be a great experience.” Chris Millar, Leader of Daventry District Council.