The High Court has dismissed Marcos Benatti’s application contesting the English courts’ right to hear WPP Group’s claim against him for breach of his consulting agreement and related claims.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reed has denied rumours it is holding informal talks with agenices regarding tasks for its PlayStation brand as “scurrilous, scandalous and untrue”.
Naked Communications has parted company with Honda after four years following a realignment of the marque’s agency roster. Starcom, which holds media planning and buying, and Wieden & Kennedy, which handles advertising, are thought to be unaffected.
BMW is understood to have added two new agencies to its below-the-line roster, casting doubt on the future of its relationship with incumbent Archibald Ingall Stretton (AIS). It is thought that Havas’ Euro RSCG KLP and Personal, which is part of the Engine group, have both created direct marketing campaigns for the car manufacturer in […]
Toy store chain Hamleys has appointed Digby & Co to handle its £1.2m marketing communications business. It will work on product development and event campaigns and will also handle brand work in the future.
Advertising agencies are failing to keep up with their clients when it comes to digital media, and risk losing influence and their share of budgets as a result, according to a new survey. Of the 85 companies surveyed by agency intermediary The Haystack Group, 65% said their advertising agencies were not delivering what they expected […]
Bray Leino, the Devon-based advertising agency, has won the Dentyl pH account following the brand’s acquisition by US lipcare specialist Blistex. It is understood to be worth several million pounds. Blistex, which acquired Fresh Breath, the company that owns Dentyl, for an undisclosed sum last week, handed Bray Leino the account without a pitch. The […]
Cash Converters, the second-hand goods retailer and financial services group, has appointed Golley Slater to launch an online auction site in direct competition with Ebay. It hopes the new service will broaden the brand’s appeal beyond the lower end of the socio-economic scale, its core UK market. The Cardiff-based integrated agency is developing a campaign […]
IMG, the licensing agency, has been appointed by the Royal Navy to manage a licensing and merchandising programme.
The Committee of Advertising Practice has launched its public consultation on proposals for new rules governing gambling advert- ising. The consultation is in response to the Gambling Act 2005, which comes into effect in September.
Channel 4 has reappointed Luke Johnson as its chairman for an additional three years to 2010.
Trinity Mirror has agreed to sell its magazines and exhibitions business Inside Communications Ltd (ICL) for &£41.5m. ICL is being acquired by Ocean Media, a company set up for the transaction, backed by Ion Equity and ICL’s existing management team, David Moran and Simon Malcolm.
Carat has been appointed by Littlewoods to handle the £5m media planning and buying for its catalogues, including Choice, Kays and Great Universal.
Procter & Gamble has appointed Starcom to handle the media planning for its homecare business across western Europe.
The Metropolitan Police Authority’s media account is being contested by ZenithOptimedia, PHD, Mediaedge:cia, Starcom and the incumbent Mediacom.