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Pladis celebrates 100 years of McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives    

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Pladis is celebrating 100 years of McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives with one of its biggest multi-million pound campaigns for the brand to date. From eye-catching wholesale and instore activations, hologauze projections on iconic landmarks and Piccadilly Lights Digital Out of Home, to an immersive McVitie’s Chocolate…

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