Giles Andreae an advertising campaign for the soft drink Vimto. Purple Ronnie was sold in April 2007 to Coolabi, the small UK company which manages the Hammer House of Horror brand, for £3.3m. Since then the company have tried to break the US market by adapting the designs and language to suit. Giles Andreae Giles Andreae (born 16 March 1966) is a British artist, poet and greeting card writer, creator of the "Purple Ronnie" and "Edward Monkton" series. As a child Andreae went to Eton College where he was best friends with David Cameron. He then went on to Oxford University (Worcester
Volkmar Andreae Volkmar Andreae Volkmar Andreae (5 July 187918 June 1962) was a Swiss conductor and composer. Andreae was born in Bern. He received piano instruction as a child and his first lessons in composition with Karl Munzinger. From 1897 to 1900, he studied at the Cologne Conservatory and was a student of Fritz Brun, Franz Wüllner, Isidor Seiss and Friedrich Wilhelm Franke. In 1900 he was a soloist tutor at the Munich Hofoper. In 1902 he took over the leadership of the Mixed Choir of Zurich ("Gemischten Chores Zürich"), where he remained until 1949, also leading the "Stadtsängerverein Winterthur" from 1902