Philip Green, the retail entrepreneur, has sold off two sets of Etam stores after buying the chain just over a week ago. Monsoon is buying 47 of the stores and entrepreneur and chief of West Coast Capital Tom Hunter is buying 20.
T-Mobile is taking over 300 nightclubs and bars around the country to promote its new U-Fix pricing plan. The four-week campaign, which breaks this week, will target 18- to 24-year-olds in Luminar venues throughout the UK. In conjunction with Admedia, MediaCom and Posterscope, T-Mobile will take over bars and clubs with promotional and branding activities, […]
IPC Media’s new handbag-sized television listings magazine TV easy is to sponsor The British Soap Awards 2005 on ITV1 and ITV2. It forms part of a £10m launch for the paid-for weekly magazine, which is due to hit the newsstands on May 3. The package will include broadcast sponsorship credits on ITV1, sponsorship of brand […]
Global integrated agency The Marketing Store (TMS) has poached Catherine Gale, a senior executive with Interpublic Group’s Draft network, to be its European chief executive. The appointment follows a major restructure and a six-month search for someone to head the European operation. Gale will report to TMS global chief operating officer Dave Tridle and will […]
Labour stands to lose 2 million women voters in the election, not because it does little for them but because it fails to talk to them, says James Papworth
Having overseen creative work on both global and Europe, Middle East and Africa accounts, across multiple cultural and language barriers, I feel I’ve learnt my lessons first hand. There is a delicate balance between local market compliance and global brand consistency. While any cross-border direct marketing campaign throws up a number of logistical and cultural […]
Allied Domecq is said to be close to agreeing terms on a £7.4bn takeover bid by French rival Pernod Ricard, and a deal is likely to be announced tomorrow (Thursday), when Allied reports its half-year results.
Shopping at my regular supermarket the other day brought me face to face with over 25 different toothpaste brands. Now, if I wasn’t loyal to my tried-and-tested paste (forced on me by a toothbrush-brandishing mother at the age of four), I could have spent my entire shopping trip exclusively in front of the dental hygiene […]
The Marketing Week 2005 Television Conference has signed up more than 170 marketers, TV planners and buyers and broadcasters to attend the event. The conference will be held on May 5 in Paris. Places can be booked on 0207 970 4351.
Recycle Now, the campaign to promote recycling in England, is to run a television campaign to encourage people to recycle garden waste as compost. The ad, created by Team Saatchi, extends the theme of ‘the possibilities are endless’ used in Recycle Now’s first burst of advertising, which focused on recycling cans. The execution retains the […]
Smarter Communications has picked up £5m-worth of business, including developing a TV campaign for travel insurer insureandgo.
Co-operative Financial Services has appointed David Anderson as chief executive. He joins from Jobcentre Plus where he was chief executive, and replaces Co-op acting chief Paul Hewitt.
Simpay, a new payment scheme that enables people to make purchases with their mobile phones, has appointed Dutton Merrifield to develop its brand in the run-up to its consumer launch in the UK and some European markets later this year.
WPP Group-owned brand and research consultancy Added Value has promoted group chairman Paul McGowan to head a new global management team. Global chief executive Tamara Ingram has created the global clients division following the consultancy’s amalgamation with sister companies Icon Brand Navigation and Diagnostic Research (MW October 28). Ingram was appointed by WPP to run […]
The BBC has announced it will spend an extra £21m on television programming, mainly on drama and comedy, to reduce its reliance on repeats.