Month: September 2001

British Gas splits from AA

Marketing Week

Present Goldfish marketing director announced last month he is leaving the company to join Bradford & Bingley as managing director of Marketplace. Waugh will report to Mark Clare, who will continue as Centrica deputy chief executive and assume control of British Gas. There are no immediate plans to change those marketing roles beneath Waugh. At […]

RFU let down by blue chip sponsorship

Marketing Week

I read with interest the article about the RFU’s need for a new sponsor for the domestic cup competitions and that the RFU was embarrassed by this situation (MW August 30). We are not embarrassed by the situation at all. We have, however, been the victim of the downturn in the technology sector. During August […]

Cost of changing a mobile identity

Marketing Week

Despite the collapse in telecom shares, Europe’s mobile phone companies are set to spend millions on rebranding and consolidation. Which brands will survive and which are likely to be subsumed?

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Marketing Week

Granada Channels is using Magnum PI to front up a trade marketing campaign ahead of his return to TV on Granada Plus.

Yahoo! and FIFA in marketing deal to co-brand World Cup websites

Marketing Week

Yahoo! has signed a joint marketing deal with world football body FIFA to host a co-branded website for the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups and is searching for website sponsors. Under the agreement Yahoo! has paid an undisclosed fee to produce and market the website – fifaworldcup.com – and is aiming to sign up […]

ISBA still hostile to a single ITV

Marketing Week

In the news article “ISBA launches bid to overhaul financial ads” (MW August 23), it was suggested that ISBA’s stance towards ITV’s consolidation into a single entity was softening. We issued an immediate and clear response stating that, while every major strand of our policy was kept under continuous review, no such change of our […]

Brit art to get a mat finish with your pint

Marketing Week

The UK’s average lager lout probably doesn’t know what contemporary art is. Come to think of it, neither does the Diary. So the latest partnership between San Miguel and britart.com, the website of young and aspiring artists, must surely be viewed with a touch of scepticism. Coming to a pub near you soon: art as […]

QVC ‘first’ with ordering goods by remote control

Marketing Week

QVC, the US shopping channel which has been in the UK for the past eight years, is claiming a “first” with its interactive TV (iTV) service, QVCActive. From this week, viewers of QVC on Sky Digital will be able to buy products via a “buy now” button on their remote control, while watching them being […]