OK. We know that the Worthing Business Awards took place back in October … And our excuse for the delay in writing about this event? The Brand Surgery has been so crammed with patients needing urgent cures for their businesses (namely rebrands and new websites) – that we overlooked reporting on the staggering success of the Worthing Business Awards. If you didn’t know this, The Brand Doctor sponsored the category, ‘New Business of the Year’. And the winner was … www.takeawaymenu.com.

If you want to see more photo evidence from the evening, log onto www.worthingfirst.org.uk. Incidentally – the Worthing First logo (behind ‘The New Business of the Year’ winners – photo above) was designed by The Brand Doctor. The excellent photography is by Graham Franks (www.grahamfrankspics.co.uk). Photos top, Jacqui Moore, Vicky Vaughan, Nick Peters and Gay Richardson. Middle, Vicky Vaughan and the winners, www.takeawaymenu.com. Bottom – What has the doc been up to?

Vicky Vaughan, Managing Director of The Brand Surgery formalised the launch of the first Dial-a-Hubby franchise in the UK. Simon Cook, pictured above, receiving a bottle of champagne and keys to his bright new van from Vicky (PINK champagne of course). Go to: http://www.dial-a-hubby.com.

If you don’t know this, Dial-a-Hubby does everything from turning mattresses to un-flatpacking furniture to fitting ovens! I totally recommend Dial-a-Hubby who fitted a brand new integrated microwave oven for me recently. Dial-a-Hubby are extremely reliable, friendly and left the place tidy. Phone 01903 501121 if you live in the Worthing area. And if you are in Chichester, call 0845 680 0814. If you live outside this area then why not consider setting up a franchise in your area.

Mrs Black, Chichester Dial-a-Hubby’s first customer, is pictured below receiving flowers from Vicky Vaughan, MD of The Brand Surgery.

What a day! In the spirit of true British weekend weather! If you were not brave enough to venture out, you missed out on seeing MP Tim Loughton in his Crocodile Dundee outfit. You missed out on meeting Mike Payne (illustrator of Nurse Sunshine). You missed out on singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to The Brand Surgery’s MD, Vicky Vaughan.

If you did come to the Fontwell races – the racing results were as follows! This is just in case you didn’t actually see any racing because you stayed in the luxurious WARM and DRY marquee supplied by www.partyonthegrass.com, whilst munching on posh vol-au-vents and fish balls (a delicacy I promise) kindly supplied by Andrew Sparsis of Food and The Fish Factory, Worthing … More photos will follow in due course

Good luck to Tim’s kids playing hockey against Millais next week.

We are proud to announce that The Brand Doctor has now grown so much we have opened a surgery! We are now also the owners of the registered trademark, The Brand Surgery®, and we are gradually changing over to The Brand Surgery®, however, our individual staff will still be known as Brand Doctors.

We do exactly what we did before (brand development and logo design, graphic design, websites, advertising & PR , exhibitions & POS, photography & illustration, email & internet marketing, movies & presentations), only we can do all this more efficiently as it is all done in-house.

Call us now on 01903 824229 to speak to one of our doctors.

If you haven’t heard the latest KWASH calendar commotion then where have you been?!

The KWASH calendar was designed by The Brand Doctor, graphic and website designers in Sussex to raise money for the KWASH appeal. The idea for the calendar came from Andrew Sparsis, proprietor of Food and The Fish Factory restaurants in Worthing. The calendar was officially launched back in March 2007 and eight months later it has been nationally recognised.

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We are extremely pleased and proud to announce that Merchandising Sales Force’s (MSF) brand new website is live.

Merchandising Sales Force is a long established leader in the field sales and marketing industry and is based in Worthing with satellite offices around South East England.

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The Brand Doctor is proud to be a member of ACID (Anti Copying in Design). ACID actively protects us against other businesses stealing our ideas and designs. ACID will also protect us and help in pursuing cases of Intellectual Property infringement.

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At the RED Corporate Golf Day, The Brand Doctor team bid and won many items at the charity auction in aid of Worthing Churches Homeless Project, including a Corporate Golf Day for 20 people, two golfing breaks and a make-over with Gay Richardson of Style me Confident. Vicky Vaughan, Managing Director of The Brand Doctor decided to pay a visit to one of WCHP’s day centres, St. Clare’s Day Centre, to see what goes on.

Vicky said, “I was embarrassed to discover that I have lived and worked in Worthing for ten years and didn’t realise the extent of the homelessness problem. I for one, am guilty of walking past the homeless and not reaching into my pocket because I fear my hard earned cash (that I have left after multiple taxation) will be spent on alcohol and drugs! What will I do next time I pass the homeless? Probably the same but I will feel much less guilty because I will be helping them out in another way.”

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What’s the difference between a golfer and a skydiver?A golfer goes, whack!…”damn!”
And a skydiver goes, “damn!”… whack!

The Brand Doctor took park in the Red Charity Golf Day on Wednesday 1st August 2007 at Hill Barn Golf Club, Worthing, West Sussex. The golf day raised much needed funds for Worthing Churches Homeless Project (www.wchp.org.uk). The Brand Doctor team consisted of: Vicky Vaughan; her step dad (excellent golfer) Bill Cooper, who recently won a golf competition at Wellows Golf Club in Romsey, Hampshire; 107.7 Splash FM Competition winner, Paul Allison; and Richard Harding of Worthing Boiler Services.

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Following the successful completion of the Stagecoach Coastliners magazine, The Brand Doctor (and our sister company - yet to be announced) are delighted to take on the production of In The Loop magazine, which takes us into the un-chartered (well, by us anyway!) territory of the Isle of Thanet, Kent. This is looking to be just as exciting a production as the first magazine and we can’t wait to see it in print.Just in case you didn’t know…. Coastliners magazine is designed and published especially for passengers along the Coastliner 700 route. The magazine was produced to promote and increase the use of bus travel in a friendly and informal way. Plus it keeps passengers up-to-date and entertained through articles of interest from the environmental advantages of travelling by bus to special deals, route maps and timetables.

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