Channel 4, Dennis Interactive, ITV and Yahoo! are among UK website owners to throw their weight behind Ooqa Ooqa, a new online advertising format that enables marketers to put their branding on a Web browser’s toolbar. Ooqa Ooqa allows publishers to sell the browser bar – the area at the top of the browser window […]
Walkers Snacks, owned by PepsiCo, is refusing to cut portion sizes in line with the Food and Drink Federation’s Manifesto for Food and Health. It claims it has already reduced salt and fat levels to suitable levels.
The Blair-Brown rivalry may have hogged the headlines, but the Government’s new business regulations could prove far more damaging.
Unilever Bestfoods-owned Knorr’s marketing manager, Duncan Moir, has left to join personal care company, Johnson & Johnson. It is not known what role he has taken.
Capital Radio Group has appointed former BBC Worldwide marketer Richard Mintz as marketing director for its developing brands division. He will be responsible for Xfm, Choice FM and Capital Gold. Mintz, who takes up his post on October 4, will be responsible for consolidating the marketing departments of the three brands. He will focus particularly […]
McDonald’s is reported to have suffered a sharp decline in UK pre-tax profits from &£86.8m to &£23.6m for its UK arm.
…Maiden has won the advertising contracts for New Southern Railway and Thameslink Rail.
Apple Computer is to open its first own-branded bricks-and-mortar store in London’s Regent Street this autumn. The 20,000 sq ft flagship store will be the first Apple-owned retail outlet in Europe. It is likely to be followed by another Apple Store in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre. Apple has opened more than 80 stores in the […]
Alcohol advertisers are complaining that Ofcom’s proposed new rules will stymie their creativity, and possibly lead to a ban in all but name on small-screen drink commercials. By Sonoo Singh
The lottery is a decade old, and the Government has decreed a major celebration, with one-off games and events nationwide. But will it give an opening to the detractors? asks David Benady
Lloyds TSB is reviewing its £20m direct marketing account held by WWAV Rapp Collins.
Tesco is launching an in-house supermarket media buying service, offering clients a one-stop shop for all retail media activity. It will be headed by media manager Bill Pennell and head of communications development Kanaiya Parekh.
Henkel, the household products manufacturer, has announced that Klaus Morwind, executive vice-president of laundry and homecare, and executive vice-president of cosmetics/toiletries Uwe Specht will both retire next year. Morwind will be replaced by Eastern European head Friedrich Stara. Hans Van Bylen, head of Henkel’s international haircare and cosmetic business, will replace Specht.
The Blair-Brown rivalry may have hogged the headlines, but the Government’s new business regulations could prove far more damaging.
President, the dairy brand owned by Lactalis, is understood to be reviewing its &£1m advertising out of Publicis. It is believed to have shortlisted Euro RSCG London, J Walter Thompson and DDB London.