Waitrose is launching an ad campaign in the national press and magazines ahead of Christmas. The Christmas campaign, featuring portraits of Waitrose suppliers, was created by How and carries the strapline ‘Waitrose. The Best of Everything This Christmas’. Three different ads will appear as double-page spreads in BBC Good Food, Easy Living, Good Housekeeping, The […]
Liverpool Culture Company (LCC), which is overseeing the city’s role as European Capital of Culture 2008, is in the process of appointing an advertising agency for a campaign next year. The organisation says that the campaign is one of many that it will be running as 2008 approaches and will promote Liverpool as a tourist […]
McCann Erickson has created a £2m television campaign for Bendicks to support the launch of Mingles and new boxed-chocolate product Gorgeous.
Souk has been appointed to handle the £1.5m integrated account for the North of England Inward Investment Agency.
Euro RSCG has created a £4m campaign to support Tryton Foods-owned Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire Puddings.
Gartmore, the UK’s second-largest asset management company, has put its £4m creative account up for review.
Morgan Stanley has put the pitch for its UK consumer creative account on hold until the new year.
Cheetham Bell JWT has been appointed by the Government to launch a £3.8m marketing campaign to raise awareness of its new Alcohol Duty Stamps scheme, aimed at clamping down on customs fraud.
TBWA/Edinburgh is understood to be closing down at the end of the month owing to a poor year for new business and the loss in March of the News International account, which it handled north of the border.
Razor and biro manufacturer Bic is reviewing its UK advertising business. The razor brand has not done any large-scale television advertising since 1999. The incumbent agencies on the account, Endacott Marketing and Marketing Edge, have been invited to repitch for the business, along with four other agencies. Emma Lawley, marketing manager for Bic stationery in […]
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) has called an advertising and media pitch for a &£1.5m campaign. It has invited DDB London, Bartle Bogle Hegarty and McCann Erickson to pitch for the task, although the DRC has not disclosed the names of the media agencies involved. The pitches will take place this month and a decision […]
Ready-to-drink alcohol brand WKD has approached creative shops about a one-off project and is understood to be close to appointing an agency. The Beverage Brands-owned range has shortlisted four agencies, thought to include creative and promotional incumbent Big Communications, Golley Slater and Nitro. Big insists its advertising business is not up for review and that […]
All Response Media has been appointed to handle Chelsea Building Society’s £2m direct mortgage account.
Abbey has shortlisted Carat, MindShare, OMD, Universal and Arena, a division of MPG, for its &£37m media planning and buying account. The review also includes online bank Cahoot.
HFC Bank has moved its £10m media account into MindShare as part of a consolidation by parent group HSBC.