Month: February 2003

Dog’s breakfast

Marketing Week

Data protection law should, in theory, have been harmonised across the EU’s 15 member states. In practice, however, individual governments have tailored rules – and enforcement – to suit their perceived national interests. By Tony Coad The EU created its data protection directive in order to guarantee citizens a right to privacy and to create […]

Former AA marketer to pilot NCR UK strategy

Marketing Week

National Car Rental (NCR) has appointed Kim Brown as its marketing director. She has been given a brief to concentrate on strategy. She replaces Paul Brown (no relation), who left in December without a job to go to. He was previously NCR UK sales director before taking up marketing duties. Kim Brown has been working […]

UK pushes the e-envelope

Marketing Week

Europeans are increasingly accepting of e-marketing, but the UK shows the most potential, with a wider user-demographic and a greater willingness to buy. E-marketing first hit media schedules less than three years ago, but in that time it has matured and become an established medium both in the UK and across Europe. Last year 69 […]

Consumers aren’t immune to the war on terrorism

Marketing Week

Marketing doesn’t stop for war, but its practitioners need to be aware that consumer behaviour changes in response to major world events. By John Owen. Admittedly, it’s not a cheery subject but, with conflict in the Gulf looming ever larger, it’s a subject that marketers and the business community need to address: what happens if […]

Egg doing well

Marketing Week

Egg reported a profit before tax of £34.8m and increased its number of customers to 2.6 million in 2002. The online bank also announced that it would be conducting consumer research in preparation for entering the US market.

Pepsi X

Marketing Week

PepsiCo has chosen the Netherlands as the first territory to market Pepsi X, a cola variant with extra caffeine.

The One Account

Marketing Week

Tequila/London has created a below-the-line campaign for The One Account, formerly Virgin One. It features ‘Hector’s House’, and will target 500,000 potential customers.

January sales net online retailers £1bn

Marketing Week

Strong Christmas trading carries over into 2003, as e-tailers take six per cent of UK market Internet shopping clicked up its second &£1bn month in January, according to the IMRG e-Retail Sales Index, while mainstream retailing slumped 44 per cent, from &£29.2bn in December to just &£16.5bn in January, according to the Office for National […]