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Barclaycard

You Don't Have To Bank With Barclays To Have A Barclaycard

Everyone was watching the football. England won the World Cup, for the first and last time, in a game against West Germany. The match was watched by 93,000 spectators, including the Queen and Prince Philip, at Wembley, and 400 million on TV aroun...

Benetton

Colours Of The World

It was the end of an era for one sector as cigarette advertising on TV was banned. For the clothing and retail sector it was boom time. Carnaby Street had become the epicentre in London for fashionable boutique stores and Twiggy had mod...

Benson & Hedges

Brand Value: $7,175 Million

As a red and blue, lycra-clad Wonder Woman kerpowed onto our screens, another wonder woman of sorts was making an impact. Margaret Thatcher, leader of the opposition party, had engaged Saatchi & Saatchi ad agency to help win the General Elect...

Birds Eye

Brand Value: $393 Million

It may have been a year of discontent for young people across the world, but 1968 was a rich year for brands. It was the year enduring advertising icons Captain Bird’s Eye, the Milktray man and the Dulux dog were created. Not to mention the l...

British Gas

If You See Sid Tell Him

As Argentinian footballer, Diego Maradona handballed his way to become the most-hated man in the UK, a nation consoled themselves by buying lots of British Gas shares, reading a new newspaper called The Independent and watching a new Australian s...

BSkyB

Brand Value: $3,107 Million

"Right from the beginning, I said I wanted to be more famous than Persil Automatic," said Victoria Beckham. In 1993, she joined three other unknown girls to form The Spice Girls. We weren’t to hear from them for several years but Beckham’s ambiti...

BT

The Worst Kept Promise In The World

It was the year of the telephone. As mobiles became more accessible for normal people, BT was using Bob Hoskins to persuade us to talk for longer on our landlines. “It’s Good to talk” was trying to reduce the perception that phone calls were expe...

 Join the debate

To celebrate our 50th Anniversary we have already chosen 50 Golden Brands from 1959 to 2008, but now we want you to help us choose the Golden Brand of 2009 which will be awarded at our 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner on November 16 at the Battersea Evolution. 

Which brand do you think is worthy of our Golden Brand of 2009?