Spirit Advertising has created a TV campaign to launch the Limperts Academy brand in the UK. Limperts specialises in distance learning with a focus on design and home decoration. The ads break this week.
Fallon, McCann Erickson, St Luke’s, Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest and incumbent cchm/ping are on the shortlist for More Than’s &£25m creative account.
Jeyes Group has appointed WARL Change Behaviour to handle the £5m advertising task for its Parazone and Bloo toilet cleaning brands.
Conran Design Group has devised the creative idea for Waterstone’s Christmas 2005 ad campaign. Beechwood will work alongside the agency to develop the campaign for television. The agencies worked on Waterstone’s Christmas 2004 campaign.
Cosmos Holidays has appointed HDM to handle its £6m ad account following a pitch against undisclosed agencies and incumbent Marketing Team Direct.
Heineken has appointed Strawberryfrog to handle its £70m global advertising account.
Scottish Courage’s cider brands are thought to be staying within the Publicis Groupe, after its roster agency Leo Burnett took on the UK advertising brief for rival InBev’s Beck’s lager brand. Leo Burnett handles the &£8m advertising business for the Scottish & Newcastle-owned Scottish Courage cider brands, which include Bulmers, Strongbow and Woodpecker. The Publicis […]
Beechwood has won a £4m creative brief for the relaunch of two Freeport outlet shopping centres.
Car dealership giant Inchcape UK has appointed BLM Media to handle its planning and buying. It is not clear whether the appointment followed a full-blown pitch. It is, however, understood that the move will not affect current planning and buying arrangements between Inchcape subsidiary internet car retailer Autobytel and Zed Media. Earlier this year, Autobytel […]
MindShare is understood to have scooped the European business for Motorola’s $150m (&£83m) global media planning and buying. The agency handles media for rival Samsung, but it is thought that the conflict issue has been successfully addressed. It was revealed last week (MW last week) that Carat had retained the business in the US and […]
Bookmaker Totesport is looking for an agency through the AAR to help it develop sponsorship idents for a Channel 4 racing deal. Totesport’s backing of Channel 4’s racing coverage will begin on January 1 next year. The bookmaker wants to appoint an agency to develop its brand presence on television. It has asked the AAR […]
Rarely has an appointment been met with such incredulity as that of Nigel Jones as FCB London’s chief executive. While some in the industry suggest Jones may not be the man for the job, many others argue that the position is below him and that the current chief executive of direct agency Claydon Heeley Jones […]
The Guardian will relaunch in Berliner format on September 13, according to industry sources. The newspaper has booked television ad space for the week starting September 12.
Maiden has warned the City that there has been a downturn in sales for the first six months of 2005 and it is predicting an operating loss for that period. The company says the drop is due to a slowdown in the advertising market and a delay in sealing the Network Rail roadside billboard deal […]
BSkyB will offer a Sky Sports channel, Sky One, Artsworld, a Sky Box Office channel and two Sky Movies screens on its high-definition television service, to launch early next year.