Crow has had a very fine dinner of Roasted Worm, Mealy Grub Jalousie with a side order of Peri Peri Twigs – delicious.
And given that Crow’s live in a ‘murder’ we have no time for Kings and Queen’s and all that. Up the Crowpublic!
But you’re not here for this tittle-tattle, you’re here for the answers! Of course you are.
Here they are…
Crow’s Christmas Puzzle ⬇️
Crow’s Christmas Brand Mashup ⬇️⬇️
Yes, yes, Crow Friends, you asked and we’ve responded.
You said, “We need more Crow Christmas Puzzles!” WE ANSWERED!
You said, “We need more Crow Christmas Brand Mashups!” WE ANSWERED!
Here they are in all of their Crow glory
Crow’s Christmas Puzzles ⬇️
There are 15 Christmassy / Christmas-adjacent brands and each has a year associated with it’s founding or launch. Work them out and then put them order from furthest in the past to the most recent. And here’s the thing…. WE’VE GIVEN YOU THE ANSWERS! Well, sort of.
Crow’s Christmas Brand Mashups ⬇️⬇️
The Crow Flies was born out of a fusion of client-side commerciality and agency-side creativity… how could we fuse both to help brands impact the market, with pace and purpose?
We’ve helped many companies and brands do that since we started over 10 years ago. From food to Pharma, drinks to DIY; from H.E. to apprenticeships, leisurewear to homeware, our approach is always to connecting the world of your target customer to the leverageable strengths of your brand.
Here’s a reminder of our areas of focus across market research, strategy, innovation and planning, and some of the ‘caw’ approaches we take to help you brand or business have foundations of stone.
That’s the way to stop the endless cycles of strategic debate, to align everyone behind the mission and invest every precious penny on impacting the market.
Get in touch if you’d like to chat more about a knotty challenge or exciting opportunity.
QUICK LINK HERE: Crow Chronicle, Autumn 2025
Oho! Back to work after a long, hot Summer, and it’s the best time to be thinking about getting strong foundations in place for your brand or business. With a tough economy and challenging budgets, the way to grow is to ensure every precious penny you spend on your end consumer or customer is working as hard as it can for you.
The Crow Flies can help you do this – our ‘caw’ offers will give you rigourous research diagnosis, laser-focused strategy, impactful innovation & effective planning to ensures you can impact your market at scale. Get in touch we’d love to chat!
Our friends at Florette continue to keep the pressure up on adding excitement and real value to salad consumers everywhere with the focus on product pipeline development – it’s always a delight working with the wider team and seeing products make it to market. And great, too, to see a new ‘leafy’ salad bowl make it to market in a competitive category – with the whole brand supported by broadcast sponsorship on the Food Channel from May this year!
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Convenience launch: here
Over the 10 years (well, 11 actually) we’ve been helping businesses, organisations and brands with their planning it never ceases to amaze us how often ‘planning’ is thought of as just a matter of templates and a timeline.
It’s simply not.
What you need is a well specified process that links critical growth insights with action; stakeholder involvement and alignment at the right moments, and above all, embracing the reality that only with sacrifice and ruthless focus can you can genuinely impact the market.
We’re really proud of our Hourglass Planning approach. If you need help with your planning, whether it’s for an organisation as a whole, a brand, or category get in touch to experience how a tight plan unlocks confidence and the belief in growth.
Here you go innovating Crow Friends, 8 delicious observations from our cawsome trip up to Marvellous Manchester to visit the lunch! North show and the co-located (ooh! Big word!) Northern Restaurant & Bar Show. All of it curvaceously housed in what was the GMEX, now the Manchester Central Convention Complex don’tcha’ know?
It’s one quick click to the blog here
Two weeks has flown by which is what happens in Crowland, time then for Part 3 of the ‘Crow Essentials’. This time it’s a rather fancy gif all about innovation.
What can you say about innovation? Always challenging; always exciting and always an essential essential, essentially.
Whether it’s New Product development, new service development, innovation testing or ‘we just need a good kick up our bums’ …if your brand or business is looking to up its innovation game – get in touch!
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caw@thecrowflies.co.uk
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