Amway

Our creative review and relaunch of the Amway catalogue with dedicated beauty, health and household sections not only allowed for more appropriate creative treatment, but also turned the catalogue into a more targeted marketing tool.

Aston Martin

We created a new graphic language for the prestige sports car marque. Our customer brochures and marketing materials match the vehicles themselves for distinction and beauty.

British Heart Foundation

Our marketing work for BHF's healthcare education initiatives speaks to adults, children and teachers across multiple channels. That means award-winning websites, interactive tools for kids, print media and marketing literature.

Bupa

Working with Bupa we create their member magazines — Bupa Health News for personal members and Bupa Update for corporate members. Since winning the account in early 2010 response to both magazines has increased significantly.

Business Sense e-bulletin

Business Sense is available in print, as a branded website, on Twitter and LinkedIn, and now as a new monthly email update straight to the inboxes of startups and SME businesses across Britain. The email contains links to new and exclusive stories not featured in the print edition, and specially negotiated offers for NatWest/RBS business and commercial customers.

Butlins

Butlins approached us to create a fun, family lifestyle and activity magazine that would help increase re-bookings from previous visitors to its resorts, while not alienating first-time guest. View the case study

Cancer Research UK

For Cancer Research UK, we have worked across a number of different projects — their Cancer Insight newsletters for GPs and Practice Nurses, a direct mail loyalty piece for regular givers and their latest Christmas catalogue.

Cell C

C magazine helps South Africa’s third largest telecoms brand to have a relevant and credible voice in technology and data services. It was launched as a key element in Cell C 2010 re-brand and is distributed in all Cell C stores along with selected host media.

Chelsea FC

The Bridge Kids magazine and website are standout examples of engagement with a young audience. View the case study

Chessington World of Adventure

As part of the continuing development of Chessington's educational offering, John Brown created the Zoo Quest pack — an educational resource targeted at KS2 students and teachers, containing a 'tiger' USB, teaching notes, classroom stimulus and flashcards and an on-site activity booklet, all promoted with a bespoke direct mail pack.We also produced a series of films promoting the parks (Chessington, Legoland, Thorpe) to teachers.

Department for Education

Our range of magazines and support tools for government think-tanks, teachers, governors, parents and children succeeds by embodying the highest standards of quality and credibility.

Discovery

We created Discovery Vitality, a healthy food initiative for South Africa's largest healthcare provider distributed through Pick n Pay's Fresh Living magazine, in-store and through the Discovery network.

Disney

The Disney Store Catalogue benefits from our magic touch.

E.ON Central Networks

Central Networks is the distribution arm of E.ON and part of their committment to education and safety, John Brown have been commissioned to relaunch the Power Discovery Zone in 2011 — the educational section of the E.ON Central Networks site for Key Stage 2.

Egmont

Our annuals for - Ben 10, Spongebob Squarepants - and more bring these modern-day classic licensed characters to life for a new generation.

Emirates

Catering for children of different age groups in a single publication, we created Emirates' two-in-one magazine — incorporating e-kids, aimed at 7-12 year-olds, and 3,2,1 for kids between the ages of 3 and 6.

Everest

We’ve recently launched an aspirational homes magazine to showcase the breadth of product and to drive brand perception beyond that of a double glazing company.

GE Fabbri

Our kids’ magazines and partworks, from Dora the Explorer and Shrek to Felicity Wishes, bring world-famous licensed characters to life.

Getty Images

Our treatment for Getty Images' Gallery catalogue showcases some of the world's most iconic photographs throughout the history of the medium.

Great Ormond Street Hospital

We don't just support Britain's best-loved children's charity with top-notch magazines and catalogues — we even organise fundraisers, sponsored marathons and skydives for them.

Heal's

As well as producing an award-winning catalogue for premium-quality furniture retailer Heal's, our service includes quality direct mail materials, with the store's distinctive identity clearly portrayed throughout.

Home Retail Group

Having totally revamped the Argos staff newsletter after 16 years, our stunning new creative and editorial continue to highlight the importance of effective and on-brand internal communication.

Infiniti Europe

Our reputation for photographic retouching is second to none: for Infiniti's European launch we produced more than 100 glorious final images, and art-directed the two-week photo shoot in the south of France.

Jaguar Cars

We create Jaguar Cars' UK, US and international media websites, leading with ease of use, simplicity of access and to-the-minute upload of official content.

Jamie Oliver

Each season we produce a catalogue for Jamie Oliver’s homeware enterprise, Jamie At Home. Successfully combining beautifully-styled location photography and functional product imagery, this is a stunning and effective sales tool for JAH’s team of home party hosts.

John Lewis

Our work for John Lewis takes in two core catalogues and a host of seasonal publications focused on services right across the company's range, as well as a landmark customer magazine, launched to great acclaim in autumn 2009.
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Land Rover

We manage the international media launches of every new Land Rover in print and online with content that reflects the iconic automotive brand's premium quality.

McLaren Automotive

We've been engaged by McLaren to produce photography and brochure-ware to drive awareness and help prospect for owners of their new supercar, the MP4-12C. Our remit is growing as we look at the retailer advertising and e-communications tools.

MEND

Full of original interactive games and exercises, our inspiring schools' packs promote a healthy and active life among students, teachers and families.

Nickelodeon

We create hugely successful sales promotions material based on Nickelodeon characters. Examples include a Top Trumps set of cards for Clarks and stickers and colouring packs for Smyths.

Orange

Our deep understanding of the Orange brand allows us to create a full suite of services for two independent markets in the UK and France — aimed not just at private customers, but also business clients and staff. View our profile of the Orange approach in the case study below. View the case study

Philips

Much of Philips' stunning product photography is art directed, shot and retouched here at John Brown.

Pick n Pay

In order to effectively service South African retailer Pick n Pay we set up a local office with a 13-strong team to produce its bi-monthly magazine, Fresh Living. It proved so successful that it was soon being produced monthly. In its first year, it won the PICA and Grand Prix awards for best retail magazine, and within just 18 months it had become the country's best-selling food magazine.
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Plan UK

Plan UK engages with British children through family membership schemes. To help them do this, we create a raft of child-focused quarterly materials including magazines, board games, diaries and more. Within 12 months of its launch, membership of Plan UK had doubled.

Proteste

For Portuguese consumer-advice magazine Proteste, we led and implemented a full-scale redesign and editorial relaunch.

RBS

A wide-ranging remit for Royal Bank of Scotland incorporates a customer magazine; financial advice service publications, tailored for both RBS and Natwest brands; the award-winning Private Banking title; in-branch displays; child-focused engagements, and more. View the case study

Rolls-Royce

We produce a huge variety of marketing and press materials, both in print and online, for Rolls-Royce — all exemplifying the ultimate in motoring luxury.

Sandvik

For this Norwegian publisher dedicated to providing resources for parents, we produce an extended series of books and board-game materials featuring new children's characters from scratch.

Sappi

John Brown produces a luxury magazine for Sappi to support its recently enhanced status in the UK and European paper market. View the case study

Superdrug

We produce seasonal Superdrug catalogues that integrate with Superdrug's own in-store promotional campaigns and materials for maximum impact.

Trade UK

Trade UK is a new service for tradespeople from the Kingfisher Group, which includes Screwfix and Trade Point. In November 2010, as part of the launch strategy for Trade UK, we published Trade Talk.

Vertu

We've been helping Vertu, creators of seriously beautiful phones, digitise their global media content to support product launches and event activity and are currently working with the marketing team on their newly launched Bespoke programme.

Virgin Group

Roger's concept is a move away from traditional staff magazines, and reflects Virgin's fun, contemporary image and pioneering spirit. It boosts productivity while simultaneously getting staff enjoying themselves, and has been called “the magazine equivalent of having a beer with your workmates at the end of the day”.

Visit London

Our tourist-focused city guides for visitors achieve standout with their comprehensive content and unique design, while our guides for industry professionals cover accommodation, event planning and the travel trade in a way that combines credibility, expertise and engaging editorial.

Waitrose

Waitrose Kitchen has become a magazine loved and trusted in equal measure by customers and industry professionals. It's our biggest success story for the premium supermarket chain, but just part of our services, which include CD-Roms, catalogues, supplements and more. View the case study

Which?

We carried out the acclaimed top-to-bottom redesign and relaunch of legendary consumer magazine Which?.

William Grant & Sons

We undertake a wide range of print and interactive projects for this fine portfolio of brands including Glenfiddich, Grant's, The Balvenie and Hendrick's. Our work includes a recent complete brand refresh and new website.

Yell

The Yellow Pages isn’t just the most important and comprehensive local trade directory in the UK; each of the 104 regional guides also contains 16 pages of unique and invaluable locally-focused editorial created here at John Brown.