The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has rejected calls for a Competition Commission probe into the outdoor industry but has started an investigation into certain JC Decaux and Clear Channel contracts.
Household products giant Reckitt Benckiser has appointed Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) to handle the creative responsibility for its Airwick brand, more than a year after a pitch was called against RB’s agency of record Euro RSCG.
Adam & Eve has scooped the £4m advertising business for the charity Save the Children following a final shoot-out with Euro RSCG. The pitch was handled by Oystercatchers.
Leo Burnett executive creative director Jonathan Burley is set to leave the agency to join CHI & Partners.
Premier Foods, whose stable of brands include Hovis and Oxo, will be bringing back Lynda Bellingham, making an emotional return to the Oxo brand for the first time in more than a decade. But this time she’s playing herself.