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Fcuk Grooming unveils debut TV campaign.(advertising contracts)(Brief Article)

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TBWA\London has created French Connection's first TV campaign showcasing its range of men's grooming products.

The campaign, which will break on national television on 4 October, comprises four executions. They feature men in stereotypically unpopular jobs, from a traffic warden and a solicitor to an estate agent. However, in the ads the men all come across as irresistible to women.

The woman in one spot shimmies up to the estate agent showing her around a flat, immediately agreeing to buy it. In a second ad, another woman sits smiling in her car while a traffic warden puts her car on the back of a tow truck. The man in the solicitor spot is surprised when, after his spiel about helping people who want to bring claims, his phone starts ringing.

The men's success is explained by the endline: 'All in the grooming.' The spots end by informing viewers that the range is available in Boots and French Connection stores.

Aimed at 18- to 34-year-old men, the commercials will run on ITV, Channel 4 and five during key ...

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