Month: February 2002

BBC splits tasks among agencies

Marketing Week

The BBC has allocated responsibilities for individual TV channels, radio stations and genres to its rostered advertising agencies so that they can build relationships with the relevant parts of the BBC. Abbott Mead Vickers.BBDO takes the strategic lead on TV generally and more specifically is responsible for strategy and creative work for BBC1, news, the […]

Wrigley rebrands ailing Ice White

Marketing Week

Wrigley has downgraded its ailing Ice White brand after just three years on the UK market. The product name will appear only in small type, above the Orbit brand, after Ice White sales plummeted by 21.6 per cent by value last year. The drop in demand follows Colgate-Palmolive’s entry into the chewing gum market in […]

NatMags licenses Cosmo brand for use on electrical appliances

Marketing Week

The National Magazine Company’s (NatMags) Cosmopolitan magazine is to license its brand for use on electrical haircare appliances such as hairdriers and rollers. The Cosmopolitan brand is already used for a bedding and linen collection, jewellery, watches, swimwear, vitamins and also the Cosmo Spirit café chain. To coincide with the products’ launch, The Licensing Company […]

McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes’ new TV ad

Marketing Week

Publicis has created the new television ad for McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes as part of owner United Biscuits’ £5m media spend on the brand this year. The ad is called ’Teeth’ and breaks on February 11 and runs until the end of March. It is the latest execution in the ’deliciously self-centred’ ad campaign, which launched […]

McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes’ new TV ad

Marketing Week

Publicis has created the new television ad for McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes as part of owner United Biscuits’ £5m media spend on the brand this year. The ad is called ‘Teeth’ and breaks on February 11 and runs until the end of March. It is the latest execution in the ‘deliciously self-centred’ ad campaign, which launched […]

Competition result

Marketing Week

Congratulations to John Bunyard of Bankside Central, who wins Letter of the Month for January for “Advertising: the emperor’s new clothes?” (MW January 10). Your prize is on its way.