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The Wainwrights! We joined our digital director for one leg of his walking challenge to complete the Lakeland fells in 2022…
3 Nov 2022 / By Mital Daya
The Wainwrights! We joined our digital director for one leg of his walking challenge to complete the Lakeland fells in 2022…
3 Nov 2022 / By Mital Daya
After a great couple of years in the White building, The Foundry has moved back into Tomorrow at MediaCity UK!
2 Nov 2022 / By Kate Booth
Gin-crafting, pet portraits, snowboarding…as a team we do a whole lot more than advertising and we’re ready to share our passions!
6 Oct 2022 / By Mital Daya
When he’s not raising money, he’s raising awareness…
5 Oct 2022 / By Stuart Simpson
Senior members of our digital team have just returned from the DynamicWeb summit, meeting our partners of the last 12 years…
22 Sep 2022 / By Kevin O'Driscoll
Remember your student days? For a bit of fun, we’ve taken a trip down memory lane and shared our best bits, dodgy hair and all!
13 Sep 2022 / By Kate Booth
Our Finance Manager, Elaine, will be the person our clients are used to picking up the phone to for any finance queries or receiving an email from each month with their invoices. But what you might not know about Elaine, is for the last 6 years, she’s been a member of a photography club.
16 Aug 2022 / By Kate Booth
After taking on Everest Base Camp in 2018 and winning, our Founder and Digital Director, Ian, has set himself a new challenge. He’s currently in the process of completing all 214 Wainwrights and wants to have them all ticked off within 12 months – 4 fells a week!
2 Aug 2022 / By Kate Booth
You might have a great company name and a yellow-pencil worthy logo, but is that enough to attract the best talent?
9 Jun 2022 / By Kate Booth
Video marketing is nothing new, but thanks to social media it now has the potential to reach huge audience...
4 Jan 2022 / By Mark Bottomley
2021 is almost over! With a (potentially) normal Christmas around the corner here’s a look back on some of our highlights...
20 Dec 2021 / By Ian McKay
If you’re thinking of launching an online training and development programme, here are five key things to consider...
15 Sep 2021 / By Alesia Harrison
Since the start of the pandemic, online learning has opened up a new way to connect with customers...
15 Sep 2021 / By Ian McKay
How do you unite survivors, carers and medical professionals in their mission to educate on stroke?
15 Sep 2021 / By James Kay
Instead of competing solely on price, we helped a veterinary pharmaceutical company build customer loyalty with an e-learning Academy...
15 Sep 2021 / By Mital Daya
In year two of our sugar reduction campaign for Sheffield City Council we’ve worked with local parents, students, businesses and even written a book!
19 Jul 2021 / By James Kay
Do you have a brand to launch in the health and well-being sector? Our latest research for a new client threw up some interesting finds...
10 Feb 2021 / By Mark Bottomley
Charities have been hit hard this last year, so we wanted to donate our time to help with a new fundraising campaign...
19 Jan 2021 / By Kate Booth
As more patients are forced to self-care, compliance marketing is vital for pharma and medical device companies.
16 Dec 2020 / By James Kay
It’s been a year of horrific blows for most industries, but we’ve managed to keep our spirits up by learning from changing behaviours...
30 Oct 2020 / By Vicky Green
How we’re helping Sheffield City Council to raise awareness of too much sugar through a fully managed social campaign...
19 Oct 2020 / By The Foundry
Social media is an essential part of any marketing campaign and we’re having great fun managing the feeds for some fantastic clients...
13 Oct 2020 / By Ian McKay
Our very own Mark Bottomley talks parenting, pitching and professional wins in the latest podcast from The Outrageous Impact Show...
7 Oct 2020 / By Mark Bottomley
With its affordable ads, simple structure, and growing audience TikTok has enormous potential for pharma marketing.
28 Sep 2020 / By Kate Booth
We’re living up to our reputation for #loveyourgut week by sharing some of the healthy things we do for ourselves and our clients...
25 Sep 2020 / By Kate Booth
We’re getting involved in #visionmatters for National Eye Health Week, inspired by our ophthalmic friends at Thea Pharmaceuticals...
22 Sep 2020 / By Kate Booth
Lockdown has forced us to change the way we live. How can we keep up the momentum to create a greener, cleaner planet?
15 Sep 2020 / By Kate Booth
After a few months in our temporary home, the new office is finally finished and we’ve taken up residence at Arrive, White Building, Media City.
1 Sep 2020 / By Ian McKay
We’ve seen the huge impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on consumer buying habits and brand engagement, especially within the health, beauty and skincare categories.
22 Jun 2020 / By The Foundry
As the weeks of lockdown tick by we’ve been reading a lot about problem skin – breakouts, irritated, dry and oily etc – so it seemed like a good time to do some investigating into the effects ‘lockdown’ might be having on our skin, and what we can do to help.
19 May 2020 / By The Foundry
Patient education is a crucial part of the marketing mix. It can strengthen the relationship between the product and the patient AND the patient and the prescriber.
27 Apr 2020 / By Ian McKay
We love a good challenge, especially if it involves counting steps. But, can we still achieve our goals during lockdown?
20 Apr 2020 / By Kate Booth
From lighting up landmarks to clapping from our doorsteps, we want to say a huge thank you to our amazing NHS workers and health heroes..
15 Apr 2020 / By Kate Booth
Joe Wicks is the nation’s PE teacher, kids are going stir crazy and the kitchen is now the office. So, what can we do to make life easier?
6 Apr 2020 / By The Foundry
Goodbye Goose Green. Hello MediaCityUK. We’ve packed up our desks, recycled about 20 tonnes of paper and given loads of old stuff new homes.
19 Feb 2020 / By Ian McKay
We’ve just launched our ‘Sheffield is Sweet Enough’ initiative for Sheffield City Council at Woodthorpe Community Primary School...
12 Feb 2020 / By Ian McKay
Our Confidence BE® campaign, for Salts Healthcare, has just received two ‘Highly Commended’ awards from the PMEA.
3 Dec 2019 / By Ian McKay
20 million people in the UK want to get out more, but don’t. Ordnance Survey plan to reverse that with #GetOutsideDay.
21 Nov 2019 / By Mark Bottomley
When Salts designed their most innovative stoma bag, they needed an inspirational marketing campaign to match.
28 Sep 2019 / By James Kay
The Foundry has been appointed to develop a healthcare professional (HCP) targeted marketing strategy for Diabetes UK.
24 Sep 2019 / By Ian McKay
With some top firms currently under fire for controversial health and wellbeing policies, how can you get it right?
23 Sep 2019 / By Kate Booth
We know we’re all eating too much sugar. Some adults are eating more than five times the recommended daily allowance…
5 Sep 2019 / By Kate Booth
Our two fonts, Veggie Regular and Veggie Grunge are available to download and, best of all, they are completely free!
22 Aug 2019 / By Mital Daya
Foundry Communications has won an intensive pitch to deliver a low sugar initiative for Sheffield City Council.
2 Aug 2019 / By Kate Booth
Sleep is big business, with companies trying to sell us everything from pillow sprays to massage machines in pursuit of some shut-eye.
28 Jun 2019 / By Kate Booth
A group of us recently took part in a sleep experiment to see if different techniques could help us improve our quality of sleep.
27 Jun 2019 / By Kate Booth
A recent survey supports the belief that healthcare brands need to talk to patients differently or, at the very least, choose their words wisely.
8 Mar 2019 / By Ian McKay