Pearlfisher has created the new brand identity and packaging for iconic UK salt brand—Maldon Salt. Based in Essex, UK, the Maldon Crystal Salt Company is a family business run by the fourth generation of the Osborne family. The salt is still hand harvested using traditional and natural methods which gives it its famous superior quality, loved and recommended by an impressive number of celebrity chefs the world over.

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We are all too aware of the ongoing economic difficulties and retail caution with Habitat, Thornton’s and Jane Norman three more casualties of the British High Street. But all is not doom and gloom. The Royal Wedding and choice of British designers and British brands favoured undoubtedly gave yet another boost to the British economy, an iconic ‘Cool Britannia’ message is being heralded in the run up to Britain’s hosting of the 2012 Olympics and we are welcoming the news (19 June) that luxury British fashion group Mulberry announced a sharp rise in profitsreporting a jump to £23.3m from £5.1m a year ago.

M&M’s will open its first shop outside the States in London’s Leicester Square tomorrow. The US chocolate brand that is worth around £1.7 billion and belongs to Mars, Inc follows the trend of so called ‘retailtainment’ where global brands use their flagship stores as tourist attractions as well as shops. For instance, Disney recently re-designed its Oxford Street store to include famous Disney characters, a cinema and its own ‘closing ceremony’ at the end of each day.

On June 23, Nike re-opened its major 1948 store in Shoreditch. In the summer of 2008, Nike launched 1948 in an abandoned East London railway arch. Part retail space, part creative playground, 1948 ‘was about the constantly shifting space between art and athleticism,’ as explained in on the store’s web site. The space has undergone an extensive re-design in preparation for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.

Heineken, which has scored big with its awesome ‘Open Your World’ campaign by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, pulls the essence of this promotion for the new advertising project  for Heineken Light, the product sold exclusively on the U.S. market. The new campaign, celebrating special experiences and running as part of the ambitious ‘Be a Man of the World’ platform, debuted last Friday (July 1) on national TV with the ‘Snakeskin Jacket’ spot, the first one in the series.