The plans for licensing of casinos have fallen into further disarray after James Purnell, the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, announced that local authorities will be given the chance to reconsider plans. The announcement comes after the Prime Minster, Gordon Brown, revealed last week that plans for a “supercasino” in Manchester would […]
Wine specialist Direct Wines and loyalty card scheme Nectar have joined forces to launch the Nectar Wine Club to cash in on the UK’s £5.2bn off-sales wine market. The club is being launched at the same time as the Nectar Wine Plan, which cardholders can join to receive wine at regular periods throughout the year. […]
Emap is selling its three Irish stations to Communicorp, the Irish and European radio group, for £135m. The sale comes amid growing speculation that the magazine and radio group is vulnerable to takeover. The sale of national station Today FM, Dublin’s FM104 and Highland Radio in Donegal will help Emap to reduce its borrowings. The […]
BT is launching a pay-as-you-go sport service offering coverage of the Premier League over its fledgling TV service BT Vision. The launch will be backed by a major advertising campaign that will launch at the weekend. The company hopes to dent BSkyB’s dominance in the pay-TV arena with BT Vision Sport selling itself as “fairer […]
Packaged goods giant Unilever UK has announced it is fast-tracking plans to restructure its sales and marketing team as part of its One Unilever programme to increase the competitiveness of the UK business.
The BBC is relaunching its flagship digital children’s channel CBBC to attract a wider audience of six to 12-years-old. The new look, which will be unveiled next month and on air from September, will be backed by a heavyweight marketing campaign. The multi-platform launch campaign will include trails across the BBC and an interactive campaign […]
Aegis Media has appointed David Bulman, News International digital director, to head the development of its digital infrastructure across the group’s agencies. It comes as the group predicts that people will be consume two-thirds of media via digital by 2010. Bulman takes over the new role of chief information officer later this month and will […]
The Independent on Sunday recorded a year-on-year circulation increase of 17% following its recent relaunch but its rival Sunday titles, for the most part, suffered a dismal month. The Independent on Sunday’s circulation hit 245,952 last month, making it the only Sunday title to record double digit year-on-year growth. The circulation hike follows the revamping […]
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced the Government is investing £100m in a sports drive that includes the launch an annual national school sports week. The aim is to give every child the chance of five hours of sport every week as part of a drive for a healthier Britain.
Waitrose is searching contractors to manage its 4m network of outdoor advertising sites and has appointed The Haystack Group to find suitable partners. The supermarket group has sites at 30 of its branches but plans to expand its network of six-sheet outdoor advertising boards across its 184 outlets.
So which part of the Toyota business has Johnny Hornbys agency not yet won? For understandable, though entirely separate reasons, all parties to this hardly everyday event in advertising CHI, the client, Saatchi & Saatchi and indeed WPP are being coy about it.
The capital’s tourism body VisitLondon is rolling out a £500,000 outdoor ad campaign to promote the city’s rivers, canals, lakes and lidos. The campaign breaks next week in London and the south-east and will involve poster, bus sides and Tube advertising.
C&C, the owner of cider brand Magners, says it expects operating profits for the first half of the year to be adversely hit by its heavy investment in brand marketing. C&C also expects profits to be further hit by the bad weather in June and July of this year.
Johnson & Johnson, the healthcare behemoth, has appointed Aegis-owned Carat to handle it European media account after a protracted £1.5bn global review, ditching IPG’s Initiative.
The effectiveness of the derided London 2012 Olympics logo is to be scrutinised by a group of MPs. It is understood that they want to meet the team behind the graphic to discuss the thinking behind the design. It is understood that the cross-party Parliamentary Design Group has been consulted, but group manager Joanna Shaw […]