Month: February 2004

Leagas Delaney to create UEFA racism campaign

Marketing Week

Leagas Delaney has won the brief to launch UEFA’s first pan-European campaign against racism. The European football governing body’s project intends to exploit the popularity of the game across Europe to discourage racist behaviour. A European television campaign is expected to run in the ad breaks during the latter stages of the UEFA Champions League […]

Royal Mail launches 9am guaranteed courier service

Marketing Week

Royal Mail has launched a guaranteed 9am next-day delivery service for businesses. The service is available through post offices or business collections and will be backed by a television, press and direct mail campaign. It offers customers a track-and-trace and compensation against loss or damage package at a cost of £6.95 for a standard-sized document. […]

McCann in new Bacardi threat

Marketing Week

Bacardi-Martini has tightened the screw on McCann-Erickson by reviewing its Bacardi Limon business. McCann is currently facing a global review on the Bacardi Breezer account. Bacardi Limon is a lemon-based rum drink, launched in the UK four years ago. Until now, very little money has been spent on marketing it. Bacardi-Martini’s total UK account is […]

Isobel set to win Milk Link advertising brief

Marketing Week

Isobel, the agency set up by a former management team at Banks Hoggins O’Shea/FCB, is tipped to win the advertising account for dairy farm co-operative Milk Link. The pitch was handled through the AAR and it is understood that Mustoes was also on the final shortlist. Milk Link wants an agency to work on a […]

Catherine Pickering

Marketing Week

Danone UK marketing director Catherine Pickering is understood to have been moved to a new product development role within the company. Danone will not comment on her replacement.

Making the case for client briefing

Marketing Week

I sympathise with Chris Walmsley’s lament about the parlous state of client briefing, not only in pitches, but also ongoing relationships (MW last week). Our estimate, based on research among clients and agencies, suggests that each year up to &£13bn of advertising work is poorly briefed to agencies. Happily, any agency and client can now […]

Box on shelf on box on…

Marketing Week

Supermarkets, perversely, are one of the last places above-the-line marketing has failed to conquer. That could all change, however, if in-store TV and radio – currently niche media – take off.

Government seeks G8 summit sponsorship

Marketing Week

The Government is looking for brands to sponsor the controversial G8 summit, which will be held in the UK next year. The annual conference has become synonymous with protests by anti-capitalist campaigners, which have led to riots. In a move sure to enrage anti-capitalist campaigners, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is to seek corporate […]

KFC names UK general manager

Marketing Week

KFC UK has appointed a former marketing director to head its UK operation. Martin Shuker moves from his position as general manager of the European business franchise unit, and becomes general manager of KFC UK. He replaces Justin Ash, who leaves the chain after four years to become managing director of Lloyds Pharmacy. Shuker, who […]

Cobblers by name, cobblers by nature

Marketing Week

Paris, Milan, New York, Northampton… OK, maybe that last entry is not renowned as a hotbed of haute couture, but the marketing brains at Northampton Town Football Club have ambitious plans. Club chairman David Cardoza has commissioned a leisurewear brand – N Range – to “take the football club’s name to a wider market”. Well, […]