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Inaugural Industry Sounds music event begins in Salford

23rd April 2016

The inaugural Industry Sounds music event took place on April 22nd and was inspired by a love and passion for music and of course the creative industry we all work in. We believe there is a wonderful relationship between the two worlds – Industry Sounds is our way of celebrating this. The event, which took place […]

Will we ever fully trust driverless cars?

22nd April 2016

It’s hard to pin down exactly, but in the last decade or so there passed a moment at which the big question in regard of driverless vehicles stopped being whether they would ever become a reality and morphed into being when. When will we be able to phone a vehicle and have it arrive at […]

Electric Cars: Shiny and futuristic or just boring?

14th April 2016

Remember all those things we used to be promised would be around in the future – jet backpacks, three course meals in the form of little pills, anti-gravity hover boards, an explanation for the popularity of James Corden – which we’re still impatiently waiting for? Shiny, science fiction futuristic things that would make our lives […]

Food Trends: The dos and don’ts

22nd March 2016

Food Trends Do you remember when food used to be simple? Me neither, it’s been that long. By ‘simple’, we’re not necessarily thinking about the method of cooking involved –i.e. the days before every second ingredient had to be slow poached in a sealed plastic bag for 24 hours before being smoked over a bed […]

Proactive vs Reactive Marketing: Avoiding an epic fail

24th February 2016

Proactive marketing is strategic, long term and actually pretty difficult. It demands that a business puts time and effort into planning its marketing campaigns far into the future, and into creating a distinct and effective niche for itself. It means actually sitting down and drawing up (which is to say writing down) this plan, and […]

Cuckoo welcomes a delicious new client!

20th January 2016

It’s no secret that the Cuckoos are what you might call a bunch of food deviants; Cooking, endlessly scrolling through Buzzfeed food posts (some of us even read menus for fun) and of course most importantly eating! For this reason we are absolutely thrilled to announce our delicious new client, Obson & Co who have […]

Help to Buy ISA: Helping make houses into homes

19th January 2016

No matter what else happens in the wider economy, the housing market has always been seen as representing a haven of stability. House prices go up, getting on the housing ladder becomes more difficult and property represents the safest possible investment, due in no small part to a gap between supply and demand, which doesn’t […]

Merry Christmas – from the Cuckoos!

16th December 2015

The Christmas cheer is particularly strong at The Old Bank. There are half-devoured advent calendars on every desk (excluding Emma our Office Manager, as she has eaten hers already…) festive songs on the radio, and we have even swapped our usual pink Christmas tree for a real one (which has our secret Santa presents perched […]

Salford Business Awards new logo revealed!

27th November 2015

Cuckoo is so happy to be the official design and marketing partner for The Salford Business Awards 2016! We will be giving the 8 year old brand a complete refresh as well as designing and building a shiny new website with aim to inspire more Salford businesses to participate for the awards. The Salford Business […]

Salvaging a corporate reputation

24th November 2015

It’s probably fair to say that the general perception of large organisations in general – the banks, big business, the government itself – took a severe battering amidst the financial meltdown of 2007/8 and has yet to recover. Ever since the crash, an event during which the very banks with whom we entrusted our money had […]