HBOS Marketing Campaign HBOS Marketing Campaign In late 2000, UK bank Halifax began a long-running television advertisement campaign featuring staff singing popular songs with the words changed to reflect its financial services products. The campaign was the brainchild of DLKW Creative Directors Malcolm Green and Gary Betts, who had previously found fame when they launched the Gary Lineker Walkers Crisps campaign. Auditions were held and Halifax employee Howard Brown was selected by Green and Betts to spearhead the new advertising drive for the bank in 2000. Brown was the first and most frequently featured star of these adverts. His first advert saw him
Ernest S. Brown practice of law. Brown died in Reno in 1965, and was interred in the Masonic section of Mountain View Cemetery. Retrieved on 2008-04-07 Ernest S. Brown Ernest S. Brown (September 25, 1903July 23, 1965) served briefly as a United States Senator from Nevada in 1954. Ernest Brown, born in Alturas, California, moved with his family to Reno, Nevada, in 1906, where he later attended the public schools. He graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno in 1926. Brown gained admission to the bar in 1927 and then commenced a legal practice in Reno. He served in the Nevada State