Analogue learnings
I began my career in marketing at the consumer giant Unilever in 1979 and joined Tesco in 1982. But it was only in 1995, through the launch of Tesco Clubcard, that I saw marketing truly prove itself to be one of the key drivers of a business. Tesco discovered the power of customer connection and used the data it generated to drive insight and learnings that we used to drive business growth.
Clubcard’s achievements changed the prevalent 20th-century conventional principle that consumers had to remain anonymous and marketing was aimed squarely at the masses. While digital communications were non-existent when the scheme launched, the use of direct mail enabled us to tap into that perennial desire to be recognized for one’s ...
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