Ramblings from the folk at ICON!

One of the features at the forthcoming Shropshire County Show – to be held on June 26 & 27 – is a parachute display by The Red Devils, the official parachute display team of both the Parachute Regiment (The Paras) and the British Army.

Show sponsors – including our client GKN Wheels and AutoStructures – will be casting their eyes skywards to see their logo flags flying in all their glory attached to each of the Red Devils team.

And in a few weeks’ time it won’t be flags that will be flying with the Red Devils, but two of our colleagues – the intrepid Nigel Robinson and Ben Howard. Their skydiving exploits are to raise money on behalf of Maggies Cotswold Cancer Centre which is scheduled to open at Cheltenham hospital later this year. Happy landings guys!

Please click here if you wish to sponsor Nigel and Ben.

ICON presentation at Oxford centenary conference

ICON director Nigel Robinson and account director Geoffrey Ainsworth gave a joint presentation entitled ‘Building a Brand’ to the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) Centenary Young Valuers conference held at Magdalen College, Oxford on Friday, 8 January 2010.

The conference was one of a number of events being organised by CAAV in this its centenary year; the conference theme ‘Onwards and Upwards’ targeted all Valuers aged up to 35 and covered a variety of topics, including Nigel and Geoffrey’s slot which defined what a brand is, how brands pave the way to marketing success, the essentials in bulding brand values and the CAAV brand in action.

We’ve been snowed under!

Forgive the pun but, to be honest, we just couldn’t resist it. It was one of those rare occasions when the opportunity was just too good to miss and, both literally as well as metaphorically, it’s absolutely true we have been snowed under.

Fortunately all the white slushy stuff has gone (for the time being at least – we’ve still got the rest of the winter to face) but, happily, our busy workload continues so apologies for the fact that this is our first post of 2010. But don’t worry. There’ll be plenty more.