BT is tipped to appoint Mediaedge:cia to handle its 65m media-buying account, following a two-month review. The move would consolidate BT’s entire media planning and buying business into the WPP agency.
Dubai-based hotel group Emaar has scrapped plans to appoint TBWA/London to its 10m pan-European advertising account and has called a review that will start next year.
Graham Duff, the president of Universal McCann (UM) for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, took on a big challenge when he joined the already troubled network at the start of last year. It has been another difficult year for UM but parent company Interpublic Group is clearly pleased with Duff’s progress, having just expanded […]
Love Creative, the Manchester-based agency, has extended its relationship with Taylors of Harrogate after winning the advertising business for its coffee brands. The agency won the business after a pitch against undisclosed agencies.
The Paramount hotel brand is being axed in the UK after venture capitalist owner Dawnay Shore Hotels leased the chain to Barceloup, a Spanish leisure company.
The car industry is confident that hydrogen could still be an eventual replacement for petrol and diesel, despite it being dismissed as “not the way to go” by an expert on alternative fuels (MW last week). Experts have rallied around manufacturers, such as BMW and Honda, that are championing hydrogen-powered cars as the long-term solution […]
Online ticket exchange Viagogo is seeking its first ad agency to boost its profile, in the face of the booming online ticket service industry.
After two decades of selling high-volume cheap magazines such as Take a Break and Bella, H Bauer has finally been catapulted into magazine publishing’s elite league. The media-shy German group outbid Hearst, the owner of the National Magazine Company, which publishes Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping, to buy EMAP’s consumer magazine division for £1.14bn at the […]
WorldStores, the e-commerce retailer, is launching a customer magazine as it attempts to boost both its brand awareness and share of consumer spend online.
The UK’s top pension funds have been slammed for failing to be transparent about their investment policies in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues
Dell’s appointment of WPP Group to handle its mammoth 2.2bn advertising business has divided industry opinion. Some believe it will benefit agency and client, while others think that, like Dell’s fortunes of late, the relationship could be fraught with problems.
Red Bull is expected to be dropped as the official energy drink of summer festivals including Global Gathering and the O2 Wireless. It is understood rival Monster is poised to snatch the contract. The loss comes just weeks after former Red Bull brand director Guy Carling left the company to join Monster, which is due […]
Lexus is creating an online forum to discuss the impact of hybrid cars on society. It says the move reflects the “changing nature of relationships” between brands and consumers.
The future of ITV-owned Carlton Screen Advertising hangs in the balance, after it emerged that ITV’s weak cinema advertising revenue has forced it to renegotiate its advertising contract with Cineworld.
RBS Insurance managing director Chris Moat is leaving the company to “pursue other opportunities”. It is not thought he has a job to go to.