Month: May 2000

Gold Award Winner

Marketing Week

Client: NSPCC Agency: WWAV Rapp Collins Campaign: Direct Donor Marketing During 1994, the NSPCC commissioned an independent National Commission of Inquiry into the possibility of ide

Coty targets girls with new ‘sporty’ range

Marketing Week

Coty is introducing a low-cost, mass market colour cosmetics range to the UK, called Miss Sporty, which will launch the company’s drive for younger consumers. The range will be aimed at 16- to 24-year-olds but Coty is hoping to pull in consumers from both above and below that age span. Its Rimmel and Margaret Astor […]

Griffin Bacal rules out Court Burkitt merger

Marketing Week

Griffin Bacal has denied industry speculation that it is about to merge with Court Burkitt – but the agency is not ruling out a merger with another Omnicom-owned agency. Managing director Jonathan Hoare says he talked about a merger with Court Burkitt chairman Hugh Burkitt a year ago but the discussion did not lead anywhere. […]

BMW Williams F1 signs sponsorship deal with Allianz

Marketing Week

BMW Williams Formula One has signed a sponsorship deal with insurance giant Allianz, which it claims will lead to the development of safer cars for consumers. The move has been backed by the sport’s governing body, Formula One Association (FIA). It is the first time the body has linked with an F1 team. The partnership […]

Rapid Response

Marketing Week

Interactive digital television is new territory for the suppliers helping service providers fulfill demand. The problem is, no one knows the volume of traffic interactive TV will engender.

ScottishPower boosts marketing team for services drive

Marketing Week

ScottishPower is expanding its marketing department by a third and creating separate teams to focus on new services within the energy division. The marketing department is currently split into two divisions. Retail covers ScottishPower’s 185 high-street stores, while energy oversees the marketing of products to domestic and business customers. The 26 appointments will mainly be […]

BMP, OMD hit by Boo collapse

Marketing Week

BMP and its sister media agency OMD are understood to be among the creditors owed $30m (£18m) following the collapse of online fashion retailer Boo.com. BMP created the £15m ad campaign for Boo’s launch last November and OMD bought the television airtime, poster space and press spots. BMP joint managing director Chris Cowpe refused to […]

Report predicts huge surge in m-banking

Marketing Week

Gloomy global stockmarkets might suggest otherwise, but a new report predicts a massive boom in online share dealing through mobile phones over the next few years. There will be more than 16 million WAP-enabled mobile banking customers in Europe by 2004, says Datamonitor’s report, entitled M-banking in Europe 2000. This figure means that one in […]

BMP, OMD hit by Boo collapse

Marketing Week

BMP and its sister media agency OMD are understood to be among the creditors owed $30m (£18m) following the collapse of online fashion retailer Boo.com. BMP created the £15m ad campaign for Boo’s launch last November and OMD bought the television airtime, poster space and press spots. BMP joint managing director Chris Cowpe refused to […]