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Brazen signs Kim Wilde to push new Magnet range | Print |  Email to a friend
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Kim Wilde – famed for eighties pop hits such as Kids in America and noughties advertising for Holland and Barrett – is set to front the new PR campaign for kitchen retailer Magnet.
Kim Wilde – famed for eighties pop hits such as Kids in America and noughties advertising for Holland and Barrett – is set to front the new PR campaign for kitchen retailer Magnet.

Wilde will spearhead the initiative to push the ‘Urban Citrique’ range to consumers, in an effort, steered by Magnet’s PR agency Brazen, to widen the brand’s appeal to more ABC1 mums.

As such she will be showing consumers how to create a kitchen garden, passing on her favourite home-grown recipes and relaying home interest and parenting tips (Wilde is a parent and author of the book ‘Gardening with Children’).

The campaign will be pushed out to the consumer press, with Wilde featuring heavily on the Magnet website.

A Brazen spokesperson told How-Do that there were no plans for Wilde to star in any of Magnet’s upcoming advertising campaigns.

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In a statement released to announce the signing, Anjum Ahmed, Magnet’s head of marketing, commented: “Kim’s passion for her children, the family, ethical living, cooking and the garden makes her the ideal ambassador for the Magnet brand.

“She will help to grow our media voice in core home interest titles, as well as generate press coverage for the brand in women’s, parenting, gardening and cookery titles – all read by our main target audience. 

“The campaign will focus on the kitchen as the heart of the home and encourage families to turn off the TV to partake in fun and practical activities such as horticulture and cooking.”

CheethamBellJWT, also based in Manchester, handle Magnet’s main advertising account.

www.magnet.co.uk

 

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 1 By Brian Carr, on 15-03-2008 01:40
The only downside to using Kim Wilde is that men of a certain age (like me) might switch off before the advert is over. Not wishing to be reminded that 'babes' can become a bit mumsy later. What next? Debby Harry advertising Saga Holidays?!?! On the plus side Anjum Ahmed speaks great sense suggesting there is life for children beyond tv a stark contrast to your guest editor (Award winning!!) Louise Lynch imagining that square eyed, illiterate,obese children actually buy kitchens. I thought they made them out of old toilet roll holders and sticky back plastic.

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