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McCormack'
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Glasgow Business Awards 2006... |
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At a glittering awards
ceremony in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, a group of 10 staff and
directors from McCormack'
s celebrated as they picked up the
Glasgow: Scotland with Style Award for Creative Marketing, at
the prestigious Glasgow Business Awards 2006.
In keeping with our established record of
non-conformity, the entire table ignored requests from the
organisers for only one representative from each company to
collect the award, as the entire group mobbed the stage to
collect the trophy -
a tactic which was subsequently emulated by
all other winners.
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce president
Norman Quick said he was impressed by the standard of all this
year'
s finalists, stating that '
The entrants in this year'
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Glasgow Business Awards are a different class. These are the
people and the businesses that create the jobs, that create the
wealth, that give the city its unique hallmark. They make
Glasgow what it is -
the best city in the world.
For more details visit -http://www.glasgowchamberonline.org/ |
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| Mark Lamarr Features in
McCormacks Radio Adverts... |
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Our most recent series of Radio ads features TV and
Radio presenter Mark Lamarr.
Mark'
s best known for his dour turn as the resident 50'
s
throwback on BBCs Shooting
Stars, and as the razor-sharp compere of 'Never
Mind The Buzzcocks'. In fact, any comedy show
with any pretence to quality has featured an appearance
from the be-quiffed comic, famed for his acerbic wit,
uncompromising opinions and heckle-proof off-the-cuff
spontaneity. Mark even asked us to donate his entire fee
to charity (and didn'
t ask us to publicise it) Top
Bloke!
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE
ADS... |
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| Shop Re-launch - Live Clyde
1 Broadcast from Macs...8/10/05 |
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| McCormacks Finalists in
Glasgow Business Awards |
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McCormacks were recently nominated for the
'Scotland with style Award for Innovative Marketing' at the recent Glasgow Business Awards held at the
Hilton Hotel in Glasgow. We
were nominated thanks to our campaign with the 'Radio
Clyde - Great Guitar Giveaway', our recent tie in with
BBC3 for their Xmas Visions project and our
own in-house innovative advertising campaigns.
Fred MacAulay hosted the evening and guests were welcomed by
the Chamber'
s President, Stephen Baxter. Now in its
eighth year, the awards attracted over 100 entries from
businesses and individuals across the Glasgow area.
The complete list of finalists can be viewed
HERE. |
Scotland With Style Award
for Innovative Marketing |
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| McCormacks Sponsors Celtic Connections 2005 |
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McCormacks Musical Instruments
were proud sponsors of Glasgows
Celtic
Connections Festival 2005.
We sponsored the
Festival
Workshop Programme
and the on-going Celtic Connections
Education Programme.
More details can be found on the
Celtic Connections website at
www.celticconnections.co.uk. |
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Congratulations to performance artist David Sherry on
completing his mammoth 'sit-in' in our front window!
As part of
BBC3s Xmas Visions project, David was sitting eating
junk food and watching telly in the front window of the
McCormacks store.
More details on his performance and the
Xmas Visions project can still be found on the
BBC3 Website. |
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| Congratulations to all of the Great Guitar Giveaway
winners!!! |
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During September 2004, McCormack'
s joined with our friends
at Scotland'
s biggest commercial radio station -
Clyde 1 and
USC to create the
biggest free competition in UK radio
history. |
All in all, over 35 guitars were signed by an
amazing array of international rock & pop stars. The list of
artists who got involved included George Michael,
Justin
Timberlake, Oasis,
Paul Weller,
Anastacia,
REM, Sting,
The
Darkness, Janet Jackson,
Robbie Williams,
Franz Ferdinand,
Travis, and many more.
The total value of the signed guitars was estimated in
excess of £
100,000. The guitars were won by genuine fans of
the artists involved, making for 35 very happy people.
Check out the
Radio
Clyde 1 FM website for more pictures from the award
ceremony... |
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10-Year-Old Wins £
900 Fender
Guitar! |
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Ten-year-old Lewis Dunsmore from
Glasgow was the lucky winner of a £
900
Fender Stratocaster guitar in a competition
organised by McCormacks in conjunction with Fender and the
Hal Leonard tuition method.
Lewis, a pupil at Broomhill Primary in Glasgow, entered the
competition at a demonstration evening organised by
McCormacks earlier this year.
He has been playing guitar for three years and lists Eric
Clapton and Jimi Hendrix as his '
guitar greats.'
His ambition is to join a band as soon as possible. '
I
think the new guitar will certainly help me progress,'
he
said.
In addition to the guitar, Lewis was presented with the
latest Hal Leonard tuition book by head of McCormacks sheet
music department, Ellen McGregor. |
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McCormacks
Musical Instruments
Ltd. - 29-35
Bath
Street -
Glasgow - G2
1HT
Tel. 0141 332 6644 -
Fax. 0141 353 3095 - E-mail
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info@mccormacks-music.com
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