National Savings Bank Investment Account (Save by Post)

Test operation in direct response advertising, 1981, for the National Savings Bank Investment Account, in keeping with existing thematic advertising for this service and for the Department of National Savings as a whole.
Agency: Dorland AdvertisingAuthor: Tom Hennessy

National Savings Bank Investment Account (Save by Post)

INTRODUCTION

This paper covers a test operation in direct response advertising, undertaken by Dorland Advertising for the National Savings Bank Investment Account, which was designed to be in keeping with existing thematic advertising for this service and for the Department for National Savings as a whole. The campaign took place at the end of February and of March 1981. For an investment in press media of £397,280, a total of £42 million was obtained directly from both new and existing investors by the time...

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