Month: November 2001

Sixsmith to take comms post at DTLR

Marketing Week

The Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) has appointed former BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith as its director of communications. News of Sixsmith’s appointment comes a week after the DTLR announced it is drawing up its own roster of creative and media agencies, independent of COI Communications (MW October 22). The review is […]

Sainsbury’s in ‘fair trade’ brand launch

Marketing Week

Sainsbury’s is launching a range of own-label fair-trade products to compete with branded ranges such as Oxfam and Cafédirect. The range, which goes on sale in 383 Sainsbury’s stores this week, will include coffee, tea, chocolate and drinking chocolate, all of which will be introduced by March next year. It has been developed in collaboration […]

We don’t sell fags – honest!

Marketing Week

Following Phillip Morris’s decision to change its name to Altria to distance itself from its tobacco heritage, British American Tobacco announced yesterday that it is to be renamed British American Definitely Not Just Tobacco (BADJNT) – not. “We don’t want to be pigeon-holed as a tobacco company, even though we are,” says a spokesman for […]

ITV signs up Euro Disney resort to sponsor New Year programming

Marketing Week

Disneyland Paris’ new theme park Walt Disney Studios is to sponsor ITV’s programming on New Year’s Eve and January 1, 2002. Holding company Euro Disney is to open a second theme park at the Disneyland Paris resort in March next year, at which point it will rename the destination Disneyland Resort Paris. The Walt Disney […]

Roadworks ahead for Osborne PR

Marketing Week

Congratulations to Osborne PR. After ten years it has managed to lure back one of its most prestigious clients – traffic cone manufacturer Europalite. This is a bit of a coup for the company, which now believes it will be “making headline news” as it did in its golden years. I’m sure we all have […]

P&G’s Pantene plans £9m Dove defence

Marketing Week

P&G is planning a £9m relaunch of its Pantene haircare range, in a bid to fight off the threat emerging from Unilever’s £35m-plus investment in a new Dove haircare range. Branded a “knee-jerk” reaction by industry insiders, P&G plans to run the advertising onslaught early next year to coincide with the Dove haircare launch in […]