Supporting Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival 2021

The food marketing event of the year is back!

Here at Curzon Marketing, we have long been supporters of Suffolk’s Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival and are delighted to be supporting the festival marketing team as it makes a very welcome return to the calendar after last years’ covid-cancellation.

The festival takes place on the 25th- 26th of September in the beautiful setting of Snape Maltings, next to the River Alde and close to the Suffolk coast, where reed-covered marshlands stretch into the distance towards Aldeburgh.

The first Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival took place at Snape Maltings in 2006 to celebrate and publicise the abundance, variety and quality of food and drink in Suffolk. This year, with over 100 food and drink brands from Suffolk, many from just a few miles away, it is sure to be something you don’t want to miss!

Look out for a mouth-watering array of products including raw milk, organic vegetables, sourdough bread, cyder from Aspall, delicious street food plus award-winning beer & spirits from sponsors Adnams.

We have worked with many Suffolk brands among our food and drink marketing clients and are delighted to be offering our marketing support to promote what is the leading food & drink marketing event in Suffolk. Our marketing support includes creating and managing social media activity, social media advertising plus event brand identity design.

For many brands the marketing landscape has changed over the past year couple of years, and many have had to adapt with more online marketing, improved packaging design, stronger brand identities and more effective campaigns to drive sales. We’ve helped clients such as Gressingham Foods, Mackie’s Ice Cream and Fairfields Farm Crisps navigate these times with a combination of effective brand strategy and impactful marketing campaign delivery.

We share some of the valuable lessons learned in our blog post: 5 INGREDIENTS FOR BUILDING A FOOD & DRINK BRAND . And you can put your own marketing to the test by taking our Brand First Marketing Health Check to see what areas you can develop in your own brand marketing.

If you would like to discuss ideas for your brand, we’d love to hear from you, with no obligation on your part and no expectation on ours. Click here to contact us.

We Are Hiring - Marketing Account Executive/Manager

Curzon Marketing is a fast-growing marketing consultancy working with many of the region’s leading brands (most with national or international coverage) across a wide range of industries. We are now looking for a Marketing Account Executive/Manager to join our team based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, on a permanent basis.

Are you enthusiastic, energetic and creative with 2 to 5 years’ consumer brand experience? If so, you could be just what we’re looking for.

The position of Marketing Account Executive/Manager will ideally suit someone educated to degree level with client marketing, account management, or digital marketing experience.

But more important than your job title is you!! We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who can bring energy to our team and grow into the role. You will be a team player, with a creative eye, who can generate new ideas and implement the marketing services we provide to new and existing clients.

Interest in the role? Please click here to apply, or send a copy of your CV with a covering letter giving details of why you are interested in the role to; brandfirst@curzon-marketing.co.uk

A Birthday Wish. 01.04.2020

I’m a lucky man.

I know it.

I have had great jobs, worked on great brands, worked with plenty of amazing people (there were a few idiots too along the way but thankfully only a few) and then I got to have a business of my own helping others build their brand.

Told you. Lucky!

Perhaps if things were different in the world right now I would be talking about how far we’ve come, how proud I am of our work and how confident we are in our ambition for the future. Actually all of that is true but right now I have an overwhelming sense of gratitude tinged with a healthy dose of fear.

I work with incredible people. Some of those people are on the payroll, others are partners, associates, clients or industry contacts. I am immensely lucky to be able to count many of them as friends too.

The shitstorm that is COVID-19 has done nothing but deepen the sense of gratitude and thankfulness for what I have. Yes, I worry about how things will pan out even though we are still busy supporting clients as they navigate their way through all of this. We know that life will not be the same again and I, like everyone else, have days when the climb out of this feels a little steeper than I would like it. But from day one (whenever that was?) my attitude and the attitude of everyone I have spoken to has been one of determination and togetherness; that we WILL get through it, especially if we pull together.

Where would we be without each other? Think about it. As clients and suppliers we need each other. Colleagues need each other. Employers and employees need each other. Professionally we need each other too; to compare notes, share insight, give counsel, sound off and stay sane. We need each other and we’re lucky to have each other.

Today Curzon is 12 years old. It’s our business birthday and I have a wish [by the way, do you think there will be a time when we can sing Happy Birthday and not think of washing our hands??]. A wish for you and for me.

That we stay healthy.
That we thrive.
That we do this together.

As that old saying says. “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Absolutely!

You’ve read this far so, as I said…… I’m a lucky man.

Steve Curzon, Founder
Curzon Marketing