Sports Sponsorship Award Nominations
Marketing WeekWinning sponsor: Carling
Winning sponsor: Carling
Winning sponsor: Guinness
Aegis’ well-regarded chief financial officer Colin Day has suddenly quit and is being replaced by group finance director Jeremy Hicks, who engineered the sale of Abbott Mead Vickers to Omnicom in 1999. Day’s departure has coincided with a 13 per cent drop in the share price during Tuesday’s trading, wiping &£278m off the market capitalisation […]
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to meet the John Lewis Partnership this week to discuss the retailer’s complaints over exclusive supply deals signed between PC manufacturers and high-street stores group Dixons. OFT representatives may meet John Lewis directors today (Wednesday)to discuss a possible fresh investigation of the PC market following complaints first revealed […]
The advertising industry has reached saturation point with an existing agency folding as every new entrant launches, according to a new report from financial analysts Plimsoll Publishing. Plimsoll’s annual review of the ad industry reveals one in four agencies is at high risk of failure, and the size of the agency does not play a […]
The Committee on Advertising Practice (CAP) has called a summit meeting with the UK’s vacuum cleaner industry to bring to an end its tit-for-tat advertising war. CAP claims its sister organisation the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is spending too much time resolving disputes between manufacturers such as Dyson and Hoover over exaggerated performance claims. It […]
New media agency The Hub has won a £15m contract for online coupons site Coupons Now, the first coupons website to launch in the UK. The agency has been appointed to handle a three-year campaign for Coupons Now (www.couponsnow.co.uk), a website which allows registered users to download discount coupons which they can redeem in retailers’ […]
Winner: Guinness
Associated Newspapers is to write down the Daily Mail’s circulation figures for January 2000 by more than 70,000 after an investigation by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The move follows complaints by two rival newspaper groups, understood to be Mirror Group Newspapers and Express Newspapers, over a 10p copy price promotion in the North-west of […]
The TV industry this week takes another step closer to the Internet with the launch of a company called ichooseTV.com. Run by Richard Kilgarriff, formerly director of programming at United News & Media-backed youth channel Rapture TV, the new company is aiming for a public launch in September. It will use streaming video technology – […]
Winning sponsor: Martell Cognac
In all of marketing there is no battleground bloodier than the nation’s high streets. The conflict is unceasing; there are no outright victories – mere survival is a form of triumph; but defeats abound, the death toll is high, and even the mighty can fall. Who would have thought, just a year ago, that those […]
Saatchi & Saatchi has scooped the $20m (£12.5m) pan-European advertising account for global online recruitment network Monster.com.
Congratulations to Profero on becoming the second-ever new media agency to be elected into the IPA. As the first such agency, i-level was happy to approve the move. I am, however, a bit concerned about comments made in last week’s news article (e-volve, MW March 30). The suggestion that “old and new agencies” are only […]
IPG’s planned purchases of a stake in Daiko will catapult parent company Lowe Lintas into a prime position in Japan. But capitalising on this new clout may prove a challenge.