Electricity and gas supplier EDF Energy has taken a first step towards uniting its three businesses, London Energy, Seeboard Energy and SWEB Energy, by rebranding its major business arm. The company’s large business customers, including Tesco, Royal Mail, Thames Water, Southern Water and the Metropolitan Police, were previously supplied by one of the three companies, […]
Activision UK general manager Roger Walkden has been promoted to vice-president of UK, emerging markets, European marketing and media planning at the computer games publisher.
Unilever’s Swedish ice cream subsidiary, GB Glace, has come under fire from local race relations activists and anti-Nazi groups over two of its products. Swedish civil rights lobby group the Centre Against Racism (CAR) has attacked GB Glace for a marketing campaign supporting its new Nogger Black lolly. The product is a variant of the […]
Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) is looking to consolidate its below-the-line activities by appointing its first lead direct marketing agency. The Manchester-based financial services company is speaking to agencies and expects to conclude the review within two months. The group was formed in April 2002 to bring together the Co-operative Bank, the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) […]
Whitbread, the hotels, restaurants and leisure group, has reported profits before tax up 17.8 per cent to £249.4m for the year to March 3. Group sales were up 6.8 per cent to £2.1bn.
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EDF Energy is to sponsor Sky Sports’ coverage of rugby’s Heineken Cup Final.
British Film Magazine, a title aimed at both consumers and the film industry and published by Excellence In Media, launches this week with a sales target of 50,000 copies.
FCB London is understood to have won the advertising account for contemporary furniture and home accessories retailer Heal’s. Leagas Delaney and Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest are also believed to have pitched for the account. It is thought that incumbent DDB London, which has held the business for nine years, did not repitch despite being invited […]
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has insisted that it will continue to look into nutrient profiling, despite a second European parliamentary committee voting against the system, effectively pole-axing it. A spokesman for the government agency maintains that so-called signposting systems were already in use or planned in a number of EU countries and that the […]
Online advertising spend in the UK will smash through the £1bn barrier and overtake the outdoor sector by mid-2006, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
Oliver likely to remain as campaign figurehead as incumbent pips JWT in two-way final pitch
The Labour Party may be planning to hire an army of volunteers to canvass voters who have opted out of unsolicited cold-calling, in an attempt to exploit a technical loop-hole in data protection laws. Under the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998, it is illegal for political parties to ask for funds or support from individuals […]
The Royal Bank of Scotland has handed the £22m account for its Direct Line Financial Services division to Clemmow Hornby Inge without a pitch.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has handed the £22m account for its Direct Line Financial Services division to Clemmow Hornby Inge without a pitch.