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Deal Group Media posts increased pre-tax profits

Marketing Week

Deal Group Media, the full-service online marketing company, has posted pre-tax profits up from &£45,000 in the first half of 2004 to &£154,000 in the first half of this year. Total turnover rose from &£6.5m to &£10.2m. The company says the first half of 2005 saw investment in new products and services, which should generate […]

You ain’t never caught a rabbit you’re just a fibreglass canine

Marketing Week

It may look like the type of thing advertised in Sunday newspaper magazines, advertised as “If the King was reincarnated as a dog”, with tins of cheeseburger dog food and a “lovingly crafted” wiggling pelvis, but the imaginatively titled “Hound Dog” has been created for an altogether more worthy cause. Communications agency Imagination (GIC) was […]

Coke aims energy drink at fashion-conscious youth

Marketing Week

Coca-Cola is launching an energy drink called Von Dutch, named after the fashion label famous in the US for its suggestive ads featuring models smeared in motor oil. It will be aimed at 18- to 35-year-olds. Von Dutch will be the third energy brand Coca-Cola has added this year, in an attempt to take business […]