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The most recent of fierce summer storms caused considerable water damage in one of the big stores of our client Top Interieur. This forced them to organise a giant clearance sale of their furniture.

To announce this sales action, we made a wet t-shirt print campaign. Sales start August 16th, but you can stop dreaming, the t-shirts are already dry again. So is the furniture.

On the first day of the Olympics, the Belgian Olympic Committee visited a number of Belgian maternities to congratulate parents with their newborn babies. Former Olympic champions gave all parents a symbolical 88 flowers. Attached was a greeting card with the message: “DEAR PARENTS, THANK YOU FOR GIVING US AN EXTRA SUPPORTER.”

This action was part of multimedia campaign with the campaignline: ““1.3 billion chinese, 10 million belgians, we are going to need all our supporters.” ”

The unexpected visit of Ulla Werbrouck (gold in Atlanta), Gella Vandecaveye (silver in Atlanta), Ingrid Lempereur (bronze Los Angeles) and Dominique Monami (bronze in Sydney) got a lot of media exposure, even making the frontpage of Belgium’s biggest newspaper.

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Radio is the perfect medium for every sports fan. Using your cell phone, iPod or car radio, you can follow all the major sporting events wherever you go. This way, you don’t have to miss anything during the Tour de France or the Olympic Games.

To demonstrate this advantage, Radio 1 built small mobile stands where you can follow all the sports commentary live. The stands will be placed on beaches and shopping streets throughout the summer. The perfect opportunity for men to escape from an afternoon of shopping.

Great news from New York: Duval Guillaume has won three awards in this year’s Advertising Awards at the New York Festivals: Gold for the Bazooka ‘Airbag’ ad, Silver for the TV commercial ‘Dad’ for the League of the Blind, and Bronze for ‘Never trust a Man’, a TV commercial we made for Mercator.

The New York Festivals is one of the major advertising awards and was organized for the 51st time this year. It received entries from over 70 countries that were judged by a Grand Jury consisting of no less than 246 creative directors from 48 countries.

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At the Cannes Advertising Festival, Duval Guillaume has been awarded with a Golden Lion. The prize was handed out in the section ‘mobile phone advertising’ to the campaign ‘A Blind Call’ for the League of the Blind. With over 28.000 entries, the festival is the worlds biggest and most prestigious advertising award show.
Next to this Golden Lion, Duval Guillaume also received three Silver Lions. A Silver for Bazooka in both the Print and Poster section. And a Silver in the category Direct for a direct mailing for Scottex.

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Belgium’s leading coffee brand Douwe Egberts has won a Golden Effie Award with its ‘breakfast’ campaign, created by Duval Guillaume. The campaign succeeded in raising sales volume and market share, in reaching unseen likeability scores and in attracting new young consumers for the category.

Breakfast and morning use are key moments for coffee use. But the share of coffee in the morning had been declining for years. With the so called ‘Foccee’ campaign (dyslectic version of ‘coffee’), Douwe Egberts managed to turn this trend around. Each of the campaign waves had a significant effect both on sales (average +12%) and on share of stomach.

This year, Douwe Egberts has already been awarded at the CCB, and has been elected as Advertiser of the Year. The campaign has also been listed as Most Likeable campaign by both flemish as french speaking radio audiences.

Lotus is the Belgian reference brand in biscuits and baked goods. With last year’s launch campaign for their new product gingerbread, Lotus succeeded to give the brand a new lease of life and at the same time claim leadership in this new category. The campaign took home a Bronze trophee at this year’s Effie Awards.

Gingerbread used to be a rather stuffy category with an ageing user base and was not attracting new consumers anymore. It was key to teach young Belgian consumers to eat gingerbread again. The point of departure was to position gingerbread as a good energy provider, containing sugar, but no fats.

The “energy” proposition came to life in a TV commercial of which the soundtrack became a real earwurm. Annoying to some, it definitely had a strong impact on many. The brand awareness reached new heights and the campaign managed to raise sales both for the new product and for the whole brand.

Duval Guillaume and Lotus are glad to already win an Effie with their very first campaign in their very first year of collaboration. The Belgian evergreen cookie brand is glad to be back and as the latest growth updates show, this is only the beginning.

Viva Dexia, the longest commerial in the history of Duval Guillaume, has been awarded at The Festival for Company Films. Viva Dexia was made for Dexia Bank and was used for internal training.

It is based on a well known tv-format where people have to overcome their fears. In the film we show how the people at Dexia can overcome their fear for having a closer and more open contact with their clients.

Viva Dexia is directed by Jan Matthijs and has a cast starring Sien Eggers, Gene Bervoets en Koen Van Impe. The jury of The Festival for Company Films consisted of directors, journalists and director Lieven Debrauwer, past winner at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Duval Guillaume Brussels and Tabasco have won a national competition to design the most creative bus. The competition was organised by De Lijn, responsible for public transport in Flanders, and its saleshouse LijnCom.

The winning bus will be used in real public transport in the city of Antwerp.

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Cepifine is an international trade association representing the interests of fine paper producers in Europe. After a pitch, the association has chosen Duval Guillaume Brussels as its communication partner throughout Europe.

Duval Guillaume will develop through-the-line campaigns for 13 countries. Promoting fine paper products to various target groups such as paper buyers, consumers, media and students.

We’re very happy with this new client and are looking forward to put some fine work on paper.