Several years after being discontinued and following a massive consumer campaign to bring back the favourite chocolate bar of the 80’s, Cadbury have finally relented and the Wispa bar is back!

This is largely thanks to the hoards of fans who tirelessly lobbied Cadbury over the last few years to start making its famous chocolate once again.

Loyal fans have been campaigning hard for its return, setting up hundreds of user-generated ‘Bring Back Wispa’ campaigns and online petitions, making banner appearances at festivals, creating blog sites and fuelling online group discussions across Facebook, Bebo, YouTube and MySpace.

Wispa was, and still remains, a unique chocolate sensation!

The bar fuses a secret blend of quality dark and Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate interlaced with the finest bubbles developed by an expert ‘Aeration Guru’.

This deliciously aerated milk chocolate bar still tastes as good as it always did, and BEST OF ALL we have a non-stop supply of Wispa bars right here at our own Wispa HQ!

Why not come on in and have yourself the ultimate ‘textual experience’?

Once bitten, never forgotten – That’s our promise!

With the recent meltdown on Wall Street and talk of a possible depression, I thought it would be instructive to do a bit of research on what happened with regard to advertising during the Great Depression. I have heard anecdotes over the years of great companies founded during recessions. What do GE, Disney, HP and Microsoft have in common? They were all startups during steep declines in the U.S. economy. GE started during the panic of 1873, Disney started during the recession of 1923-24, HP began during the Great Depression, and Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft during the recession of 1975.

To begin, not all was doom and gloom during the Great Depression. It was a time when those who knew what they were doing made great economic strides, and the very nature of the Depression was an economic boon for them. It was a time when several companies benefited from aggressive marketing while their rivals cut back. A good example of that would be Kellogg besting C.W. Post during that time. Consumers didn’t stop spending during the Depression; most just looked for better deals, and the companies providing those better deals came out stronger after the Depression ended. When spending picked up, consumer loyalty to those companies remained.

Generally speaking, those companies that not only survived but also thrived during the Great Depression were those that continued to act as though there were nothing wrong and that the public had money to spend. In other words, they advertised. These are industries that didn’t wait for public demand for their products to rise. They created that demand even during the most difficult of times.

Because so many companies cut spending during the Great Depression era, advertising budgets were largely eliminated in many industries. Not only did spending decline, but some companies actually dropped out of public sight because of short-sighted decisions made about spending money to keep a high profile. Advertising cutbacks caused many customers to feel abandoned. They associated the brands that cut back on advertising with a lack of staying power. This not only drove customers to more aggressive competitors, but it also caused financial mistrust when it came to making additional investments in the no-longer-visible companies.

Both anecdotal and empirical evidence support the case that advertising was the main factor in the growth or downfall of companies during the Great Depression. To put it bluntly, the companies that demonstrated the most growth and that rang up the most sales were those that advertised heavily.

Article By: Dave Chase from Altus Alliance