We are delighted to be working with – and supporting – Livingston Youth Foundation (LYF). Launched today, 17th January 2012, by Sports Minister Shona Robison and SFA Chief Executive Stewart Regan.

LYF is a charity with the principal aim of increasing participation in football among West Lothian’s boys and girls. The Foundation has 4 key partners in West Lothian Council, West Lothian College, West Lothian Leisure and Livingston Football Club.

The outcomes for which the Foundation aims include improved health and fitness for West Lothian youngsters, a rediscovery of the fun in active play, stronger boys and girls teams across the County and a successful professional club in West Lothian. The Foundation will bring together the resources of its key partners to offer a consolidated programme of football activities and coaching courses from season 2012/2013.

As our chosen charity, Marketing Matters will be donating marketing and design resources and support to the Foundation, throughout 2012. We have already designed the logo and stationery and supported them in their media launch. The next project is the website, which will go live in February and we will continue to provide whatever support is required. We are thrilled to be working with Gordon Ford and his team of Trustees and wish them every success in the years to come.

Marketing Matters is now delivering marketing consultancy and design development to Oceaneering International.

A global subsea solutions provider to the oil and gas industry and now entering the Offshore Renewables market, Oceaneering has sites worldwide.

Delivering marcoms for Oceaneering Umbilical Solutions in Rosyth, Fife – including exhibition design and development, sales and marketing collateral, presentations, brand development and collaborative public relations (through our preferred PR partner, Edinburgh-based Acumen) we are enjoying working directly with Head Office in Houston and responding to the challenges presented by our biggest client so far!

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Quality Scotland is an organisation which promotes business excellence and the sharing of best practice.

Quality Scotland has the expertise, products and services to stimulate continuous improvement within the business environment and engaging with Quality Scotland represents a commitment to organisational excellence.

Earlier this year, Marketing Matters won the contract for the design of the programme for the  Scottish Awards for Business Excellence 2010 – through Quality Scotland.  So well received was this, that Marketing Matters succeeded in a pitch for the organisation’s quarterly magazine – Excellence Now.

To find out more about Quality Scotland and to access the magazine, go to www.qualityscotland.co.uk now.

Marketing Matters has just completed a new, WordPress-based website for one of Edinburgh’s leading public relations consultancies – Acumen.

Working closely with clients to identify the right target audiences and the correct messages for those audiences, Acumen delivers innovative and intuitive PR strategies that generate the results their clients require.

Their service offering includes public & media relations, media training, online PR & Social Media, Crisis Management, Event PR & ExpoPRess, internal communications, communications audits and Public Affairs  & Parliamentary Monitoring

Find out more at www.acumen-pr.com – and make sure to check out their blog – The View -  it’s all good!

..full of award winning companies – this year’s Scottish Awards for Business Excellence brochure was designed by Marketing Matters.

On a very tight deadline and production timetable the brochure was put together as quick as you could say “3 course meal with coffee and a small mint”. OK, it  maybe took slightly longer than that, but it was a rush of adrenalin, some late nights and early mornings to get it all put together from initial meeting to final printed brochure (10 days).

The project was fun, fast and furious. And the client is delighted with the results “I was really pleased with the outcome of the brochure and got lots of great comments on it.” Anne Sutherland, Quality Scotland.