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Avensure Ltd t/a Employment Law Advice Bureau
A direct mailing to a business was not obviously identifiable as an ad.
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Prettylittlething.com Ltd t/a Prettylittlething.com
A series of tweets misleadingly implied that a promotion included all product lines, failed to include the closing dates or times of the promotion and misleadingly implied that further discounts would not be available when the promotion ended.
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Whitbread Group plc t/a Premier Inn, Beefeater
A paid-for search ad made misleading claims about the price of hotel rooms.
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Nationwide Building Society t/a Nationwide
TV, radio and press ads for Nationwide were misleading as consumers were likely to understand that the building society had made a long-term decision not to close their branches and that they had not recently closed any branches when this was not the case.
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Aldi Stores Ltd t/a Aldi
A wrap around national press ad made misleading comparative claims which could not be verified, as well as a misleading claim about prices compared to last year.
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Worldwide Trademarks sro t/a Worldwide Trademarks
A direct mailing was not obviously identifiable as an ad, and misleadingly had the appearance of an invoice.
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Simba Sleep Ltd
A website featured misleading claims around reference prices and associated savings.
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Capital Credit Union Ltd
A paid-for Meta post irresponsibly encouraged consumers to spend more than they could afford by taking out a loan to fund Christmas spending.
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Lenovo Technology (UK) Ltd
An email contained the misleading claim “Get 10% off any product”.
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Pennine Community Credit Union Ltd t/a PCCU
A paid-for Meta post irresponsibly encouraged consumers to spend more than they could afford by taking out a loan to fund Christmas spending.
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Space NK Ltd t/a Space.NK
A competition via an Instagram post did not award a prize in accordance with change, was not administered fairly and omitted significant conditions.
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Witcombe Festival
A competition via Instagram post didn’t award the winner the promised prize or a reasonable equivalent.
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Brooksdale Ltd
Three paid-for Facebook ads for PPI tax rebates misleadingly implied they were from HMRC or an official government service, and irresponsibly took advantage of people’s concerns about the cost of living crisis.
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Churchill Retirement Living Ltd t/a Churchill Retirement Living
A website and a paid-for Facebook ad made misleading claims about savings, and was irresponsible for exploiting the cost of living crisis.
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Reclaim My PPI Tax Ltd t/a Reclaim My PPI Tax
Three paid-for Facebook ads for PPI tax rebates misleadingly implied they were from HMRC or an official government service, and irresponsibly took advantage of people’s concerns about the cost of living crisis.
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Team RH Fitness Ltd
A TikTok video did not make it clear that an advertised subscription was for a minimum term of 12 months.
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HJ Heinz Foods UK Ltd t/a Heinz
A packaging promotion for ‘free days out’ omitted significant conditions.
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Outsourceful Ltd t/a Outsourceful
An email and website for a recruitment agency perpetuated harmful racial stereotypes and were likely to cause serious offence.
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Zzoomm plc
A direct mailing misleadingly stated the savings someone could make with their broadband service.
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GetAgent Ltd
A website for estate agent referrals did not make it clear that some results were marketing communications, and claimed to make ‘impartial recommendations’ which was misleading.
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Benefex Ltd
Topic: Promotions and competitions
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Ellis Hay t/a Ellis Hay
Topic: Property sales and lettings