Retail agency Rhubarb launches with The Rebel Group as first client
Former BMF creative Helen Cowley has launched retail agency Rhubarb Advertising with The Rebel Group as its foundation client, Mumbrella can reveal.
The sporting goods retailer has moved its strategic and creative business from inhouse to Cowley’s start-up, with new TV, radio and catalogue work to launch in the next fortnight for the company’s Autumn Winter apparel campaign. The rebel Group’s brands include Rebel Sport and Amart.
Cowley, who worked at BMF for eight years before finding herself leaving in December, said that there was a gap in the market for a good specialist retail agency.
Retail advertising is guilty of “the sledgehammer approach”, said Cowley, who is the agency’s founder and creative director, leading an initial team of three plus contractors.
helen is a honey…
Fabulous news about a fabulous creative!
Well done gorgeous girl.
Good luck and well done Helen…Retail is the bread and butter and staple diet of this country and too many consider it a lesser pathway for a career and with the media’s thumping loud advertising to the ‘perceived fools’ in which shop and work in, need to step back,reflect and wake up… Todays Retailers are savvy and sophisticated and want some well deserved respect….Look overseas at the adds they run, and you will see a marked difference. Respect brings respect and the discerning shopper will spend their $$ if treated with a little. Companies spend $$$ of shop fitouts and merchandise,but fall down heavily in quality staff training and advertising and promotion..It is not rocket science…
Go and shake them up Helen:)
good luck to you, Helen Cowley
i hope your clients dont mind the ‘cheap and dirty’ remark!
Radsnake.
Off to a flying start…
Excellent work Helen. And this is only the beginning – go girl!