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Using social media to tackle Sheffield’s sugar problem
How we’re helping Sheffield City Council to raise awareness of too much sugar through a fully managed social campaign...
19 Oct 2020 / By Sarah Hydes
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Socially distant? Here’s how we’re helping clients reach customers.
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
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The outrageous podcast you need to hear
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
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TikTok: The platform healthcare brands can’t afford to ignore
With its affordable ads, simple structure, and growing audience TikTok has enormous potential for pharma marketing.
28 Sep 2020 / By Kate Booth
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Do you love your gut? Here’s how we stay healthy.
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
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Focus on eye health for National Eye Health Week
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
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It’s a green kind of day
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
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We’ve arrived!
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
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Health, beauty, skincare – buying habits COVID-19
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 Sarah Hydes
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Lack of exercise, fresh air and vitamin D
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 Sarah Hydes
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How to educate patients more effectively
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
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How to keep your steps up on lockdown
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
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Sharing the love for our brilliant NHS
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
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How to boost health and wellbeing while self-isolating
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 Sarah Hydes
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We’ve moved to Media City!
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
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The Foundry says ‘Sheffield is Sweet Enough’
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
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The Foundry scoops two PMEA awards
Our Confidence BE® campaign, for Salts Healthcare, has just received two ‘Highly Commended’ awards from the PMEA.
3 Dec 2019 / By Ian McKay
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The Foundry gets more people outside for Ordnance Survey
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
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The Foundry helps Salts Healthcare reach record sales
When Salts designed their most innovative stoma bag, they needed an inspirational marketing campaign to match.
28 Sep 2019 / By Anna Scott
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The Foundry creates marketing strategy for Diabetes UK
The Foundry has been appointed to develop a healthcare professional (HCP) targeted marketing strategy for Diabetes UK.
24 Sep 2019 / By Ian McKay
- Insight
Health and wellbeing at work: How do you get it right?
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
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The Foundry is getting Sugar Smart this September
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
- Foundry Culture
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Free typeface for National Vegetarian Week
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
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Foundry wins Sheffield City Council low sugar bid
Foundry Communications has won an intensive pitch to deliver a low sugar initiative for Sheffield City Council.
2 Aug 2019 / By Kate Booth
- Foundry Culture
- Insight
Results of our Foundry sleep experiment and lessons learnt… (2 of 2)
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
- Foundry Culture
- Insight
Our Foundry sleep testers have finished their experiment. Here’s how they got on… (1 of 2)
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
- Insight
Wise Words: How to talk to patients
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