COI reviews strategic media planning roster

Hewlett-Packard, the computer company, is cutting 968 jobs in the UK next year as part of a global restructure. The job losses will affect the IT, human resources and finance departments, but it is not clear what they will mean for marketing.

As a devoted Triumph rider, I was dismayed to see news of its recent link with Paul Smith. On the less important side of things, I have to say that this designer-endorsement route is hardly ground-breaking stuff, is it? I mean, this particular one (er, Paul Smith) has only done the same for, oh, let […]

RWE, the German utility company and owner of npower and Thames Water, is understood to be consolidating its media planning and buying business into one agency. Vizeum and MediaCom, which work on the npower account, and Zenith Optimedia, which handles Thames Water, will pitch.