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67 Pall Mall is the innovative and rebellious Private Members’ Club, founded by wine lovers, for wine lovers, and is home to the best wine list in the world.
With 5,000 wines representing 42 countries, the award-winning Club has quickly established itself as the home of fine wine, bringing together the trade, like-minded individuals, wine experts, world-renowned wine writers and aficionados who will all share a bottle around the same table.
Founded by Matthew Jones in September 2013 Bread Ahead has been supplying fresh produce daily to Borough Market customers and a range of local restaurants and delis.
The first bakery school opened in Borough in February 2014 with the purpose of educating the public just how easy baking good bread can be. Schools in Chelsea and now Wembley have followed.
During Coronvirus lockdown Bread Ahead created a schedule to launch daily online baking tutorials via their Instagram channel, hosted by Founder Matthew Jones.
A summer festival meets immersive retail experience in a unique, fun filled two day event conceived and created by Mance Communications for The Crown Estate.
Designed to drive awareness of Rushden Lakes as a destination and increase footfall to partner retail outlets.
To celebrate Rushden Lakes' second successful year of trading Mance Communications created, planned and delivered a unique event and campaign - The Rushden Lakes Festival - to engage visitors to come and explore what the alternative retail experience had to offer. Activities included; festival styling, glitter tattoos and festival make-up all from onsite brands. Masterclasses and demonstrations, live music, mini golf, paddle boarding, rock climbing, food tastings, dog shows and much more...
During the campaign Mance Communications project managed, planned all elements of the event and delivered a successful festival, oversaw health & safety, financial budgets, subcontractors and timelines, liased with over 35 Rushden Lakes brands to partake in the festival, created customer database increase opportunities, created social media opportunities and managed the press and social campaigns
Mance Communications launched Sculpd into the UK market during the lockdown of 2020. By targeting key press and identifying opportunities across publications, Mance Communications positioned Sculpd as a market leader in the craft world and firmly established it as one of the top at-home activity kits.
As part of our PR strategy, we advised Sculpd on a series of collaboration kits to ensure feature splashes across top publications. Partnerships so far have included a Bloom & Wild Mother’s Day pottery and flower arranging kit and a Valentine’s cocktail kit with Mr Black Coffee liquor.
The Monster, the worlds largest inflatable assault course, on tour in Birmingham, London and Croatia in August 2019.
Mance Communications advised and implemented a 6-month national PR campaign, announcing the return of The Monster, the worlds largest inflatable assault course, positioning it as a ’must book’ event in Birmingham and London for August.
During the campaign, Mance Communications also announced The Monster’s partnership with the iconic NERF brand at their 2019 summer events.
Patty & Bun has built up a reputation in London as ‘burger royalty’, currently having 10 burger shops and a whole host of events under their belt.
Since its humble beginnings as a street-food pop-up, Mance Communications has worked alongside Patty & Bun to grow their burger brand to ten sites - including a new regional burger joint in Brighton. Mance Communications has worked on a series of creative mechanics to help increase footfall and brand visibility, alongside each of the burger shops openings.
Mance Communications launched the Crowdfunding campaign for The Crystal Maze smashing the £500,000 target that went on to create one of the most talked about live experiences of 2016. Mance&Co. went on to launch both the London venue and then the Manchester site in 2017
The Crystal Maze, the immersive re-creation of the hit 90s television show, opened to the public in March 2016 making lifelong dreams into reality as contestants re-live the magic of the cult programme for themselves.
Guided by their very own Maze Master, guests can take on the challenge of the Maze tackling Aztec, Medieval, Industrial and Futuristic zones before they enter the famous Crystal Dome for the finale of their experience - just as contestants did on the show itself.
In the 1990's The Crystal Maze was one of Britain's favourite television shows with a regular audience of 4 - 6 million views. This time around, it’s a live, fully interactive experience in the heart of London and it is open to all.
The Lost Estate turns extraordinary music and storytelling into enthralling nights out. Each experience is set in a secret world where live performance, theatre, mixology, gastronomy, and good old-fashioned partying are fused into a spellbinding whole.
Mance Communications worked with The Lost Estate, supporting on two activations - Lost Love Speakeasy and The Great Christmas Feast. The Lost Estate fuses live performance with food from top British chefs, bars by boundary-pushing mixologists and experiential design to create secretive and truly bewitching experiences.
Mance Communications advised on the PR strategy, put together the press materials, invited top tier press to attend the experience, followed up for feedback, pitched for inclusion in relevant features and kept press updated with all The Lost Estate’s news.
No ordinary food festival, The London Dessert Festival was London’s first experiential event dedicated to desserts.
Mance Communications advised and implemented a two-month PR campaign, announcing the immersive zones, participating brands and live demo line-up at the London Dessert Festival, to drive ticket sales and overall awareness.
Mance Communications were instructed by Moët Hennessy UK to amplify their 2019 one day ticketed event “Drum Roll Please…” for Ardbeg Day.
The one day London festival - part of the international Ardbeg Day, celebrated the launch of the new Limited Edition Ardbeg Drum.
Mance Communications advised on the alignment of “Drum Roll Please…’ to create a more media friendly event that brought attention to the brand whilst positioning it away from “sales” partnerships.
Mance Communications strategy implementation led to the event selling out within a week.
Combining two 9-hole crazy golf courses with three exceptional street food vendors, five cocktail drenched bars, an incredible clubhouse, Swingers is the most exciting competitive social experience in London.
Originally launched as a pop up in 2014 Swingers saw great success in the concept and followed this with their first permanent site in the City of London opening in May 2016. Mance Communications have worked with Swingers from concept to the launch of their first two UK sites and then the announcement of their first international site in the USA.
Mance Communications helped Choose Water to launch its crowdfunding campaign in April 2018 to help give consumers a choice to make a difference. The campaign became a world-wide news sensation and created a rallying call for environmentally conscious shopper.
Mance Communications were presented with the concept of the bottle in 2018. Working closely with founder and inventor James Longcroft of Choose Water, Mance Communications introduced Choose Water to Indigogo crowdfunding platform and orchestrated the launch PR campaign which generated over 100 pieces of National and Global coverage including print, online and broadcast.
As a result of the campaign, Choose Water has been named a Sky Ocean Hero and received enough investment funding for a automated production line and will bring the finished product to the shelves in Spring 2019. Choose Water have been approached by global, national and regional outlets to stock the bottle.
Sherlock: The Game Is Now is a unique partnership between KIN Partners, ‘Sherlock’ producers Hartswood Films and Time Run, the leading innovators in escape room games.
Mance Communications launched Sherlock: The Game Is Now, the world’s first immersive escape room game based on the internationally famous television series, Sherlock. Mance Communications worked with Time Run from the very beginning when the game was still just an idea, advising on PR strategy to launch the venue and drive bookings to the game.
Mance Communications launched Beautiful Allotment, a summer pop-up for feasting, drinking and socialising in the Geffrye Museum gardens, masterminded by the team behind Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings.
Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings has earned a strong presence and reputation for establishing innovative and successful experiential event brands, such as Beautiful Allotment, Winter House, Cocktails in the City and The Prohibition Party, all of which are widely considered landmark events.
Beautiful Allotment was a temporary living, organic and beautiful outdoor space for feasting, drinking and socialising, running for seven weeks in East London in the Summer of 2018.
Glenmorangie and Moët Hennessy UK appointed Mance Communications to coordinate lifestyle press for the launch of the Spice & Rye bar in celebration of 2018's 9th Private Edition whisky "Spios".
As a nod to the golden age of American whisky, Glenmorangie hosted a special 1920s styled cocktail bar in honour of the launch of Spios - their first ever single malt aged entirely in American ex-rye whisky casks.
Guests entered the bar via an apothecary-style spice shop, where they were greeted by a mysterious spice seller... Upon a secret code word guests continued their journey through a hidden entrance that transported them inside a lively 1920s-style space, where guests were hosted by insightful bartenders telling entertaining tales, wisecracking hosts and a swinging jazz band elevating the atmosphere.
Since 2015, Incipio Group has been specialising in creating large, new and exciting social venues concentrated around food and drink.
Mance Communications have worked with Incipio Group from inception, and have launched all six of their unqiue venues. Since their first project, Mance Communications has worked with Incipio Group to establish and drive footfall to each of their out-of-the ordinary dining experiences.
This includes the likes of Pergola on the Roof, Pergola Paddington, The Prince, Feast Canteen, Feast Bar & Kitchen and W12 Studios and Pergola Olympia.
Mance Communications were originally retained by Wright Brothers to launch the Battersea Restaurant as well as introduce the overall brand to a more lifestyle audience. Mance Communications continue to work across all sites advising on meaningful, sales driven activations.
Wright Brothers was established in 2002 by brothers-in-law Ben Wright and Robin Hancock whose mission was to bringing oysters back to popularity in the UK and back onto London restaurant menus. Since then, the name Wright Brothers has become synonymous with the finest, freshest seafood. The group’s restaurant portfolio includes: Soho, Borough Market, Battersea Power Station, Spitalfields and South Kensington.
Mance Communications implemented a PR Strategy for the London Shell Co. that drove awareness and footfall and created one of 2017's top destination restaurant venues and secured its reputation as one of the best dining experiences in London.
London Shell Co. launched a floating restaurant on the Regent’s Canal in December 2016. Offering an incredible menu of seasonal-inspired seafood dishes, London Shell Co. whisks diners away on two-and-a-half-hour scenic dining cruises.
Within the first year of opening, Mance Communications secured glowing reviews from restaurant critics, including a 5* review in The Telegraph, 4* reviews in The Evening Standard and METRO and a positive review in The Observer. Throughout the first two years of opening, Mance Communications has generated over 300 pieces of coverage.
In November 2017, Mance Communications worked with the revolutionary eyewear brand KITE, to launch to world’s first Eyebar - a groundbreaking new retail space that unites design, technology and culture to reinvent the eyewear shopping experience.
The KITE Eyebar is unlike anything currently on offer across the industry. In retail, KITE turns choosing glasses from a chore into an exciting and radically different experience in destination shopping.
At its heart, the KITE Eyebar is a space where visitors can relax, unwind, and explore the diverse eyewear range in their own personal booth without distractions, while enjoying a bespoke drink crafted by beverage pioneers Bompas & Parr.
In November 2018, Mance Communications worked with Avobar, a superfood café in Covent Garden, on a strategic PR campaign to establish it as one of London’s top healthy eating destinations, creating awareness and driving footfall from breakfast through to dinner.
Throughout the 6-month campaign, Mance Communications supported Avobar on seasonal activations including ‘Veganuary’, ‘Pancake Day’ and the launch of the ‘Evening Plates’ menu.
In 2016 Mance Communications launched Ao Yun - the first Chinese wine from Moët Hennessy to the public. Produced on the edge of the Himalayas from the high-altitude vines of the Mekong Valley, Ao Yun was recognised as the new standard for Chinese wine making.
Years of research have brought this project to life: a vision of new winery creation, in which Moët Hennessy has pushed boundaries and revealed a region with fantastic potential.
Unique in Moët Hennessy’s history, Ao Yun is the realisation of every winemaker’s dream - the discovery of a new region with fantastic potential, rich culture and breathtaking landscapes.The first vines in the region were planted 10 years ago, at altitudes between 2,200 to 2,600 meters and are some of the highest in the world.
Mance Communications were engaged by Moët Hennessy UK to run a pure product placement campaign across regional and national media for Christmas 2015.
Moët Hennessy UK portfolio runs across Moet&Chandon, Dom Perignon, Glenmornagie, Estates& Wines portfolio includinhg Cloudy Bay, Glenmornagie, Veuve Cliquot, Ardbeg, Krug, and Ruinart.
In 2016 Island Record - one of the most recognisable brands in music, with artists as diverse as Bob Marley, Nick Drake, Amy Winehouse, PJ Harvey and U2 engaged Mance&Co. to launch the second beer - the Jamacian Porter, in its growing Beer Range
Mance Communications worked closely with the Island Records marketing team to create not only a product release strategy with campaign assets including photography but also make introductions for the brand that brought not only sales but also brand awareness in key destination sites across London.
Mance Communications launched The Stump, a new Cotswold Inn with ten rooms and Baz & Fred in the kitchen.
The Stump, the locals nickname for the former Hare and Hounds pub, opened in August 2019 after a complete renovation. The pub has ten comfortable ensuite rooms with award winning pizza legends Baz & Fred run the kitchen and bar, offering an enticing Italian inspired menu.
Mance Communications advised on the strategy of the opening, and lined up top tier press visits over the opening months to ensure ongoing and consistent coverage. We positioned it as a gourmet bolthole, announcing the opening to local press first and lining up key reviews with national titles.
