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Flush with a new branding campaign, Glasgow is setting out to sell itself as an international city. Ruth Hedges surveys the press reaction to the new brand.
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pomted out: ‘All the people in the campaign live and work in Glasgow and are paSSionate about the City. But only The Be/fast Telegraph noticed that the drrvrng force behind the campaign is not in fac a Scot. The Irish paper heaped praise on Ulster-born Eddie Friei. exr')iair‘.rng that he has been ‘showered with honours in Scotland' for his part in the Glasgow's Miles Better campaign. Soon enough. the st0ry' found its way into
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McAlpine in The Hera/d was in agreement ‘.'.’l'.l‘ tne rebranders. in a back-handt-xt compliment kind of way: ‘\"‘.’eegies are (‘tesigner-labei Junkies right down to the tips of their acrylr: fingernails. If Scotland with Style reflects a brass-wrth-class :oxe of conspicuous consumption. coupled with a global one- uprnansnp. then it cannot be faulted for acetrracy. Translate as gallus." But the still sceptical Scotsman ran a piece by Michael Kelly. a tormer Lord Provost of Glasgow. larnpooning the suggestion in the ad run by its Glasgow-based broadsheet rival that y-rhen it comes to style. Glaswegians are ‘born with it'.
Krs y t cott in the The Guardian was more downbeat about the whore style-thang. ‘Top designers iostle to inhabit the City's burgeoning shopping precincts. but in its poorest neigthLirhoods. one faintly in ten can't find $320 in an emergency:~
BBC presenter Rot) Maclean suggested that Glasgow: Scotland with Style'. should be "e )iaced with (Elasgoy'rz don't go.' With complaints flooding in, he =.'.’as forced to retract: ‘When I said. “Glasgow: "W "I (a is - ' (ion't go."l W rneant. "Don't .eaye". I love i (‘ziasgoxzf Aye. right. ya ‘.'.’l(l(3 o.
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