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Carlson Marketing has been appointed to the global customer relationship management business for the United Arab Emirates’ new national airline, Etihad. The agency, formerly Carlson Marketing Group, has been handed the account without a pitch and will be working on a number of loyalty programmes for the airline. Earlier this year, TBWA won the $90m […]
GE is searching for a creative agency for its UK consumer finance division ahead of a consumer push for its rebrand as GE Money early next year. GE Money will attempt to capitalise on the growth of online banking.
Cello Group, the marketing services company that owns The Leith Agency, Target Direct and Navigator Response Advertising, has reported a turnover of &£20.9m, gross profit of &£10.3m and pre-tax profits of &£1.32m in its maiden interim results for the first six months of 2005.
McCann Erickson has created a television campaign for Petits Filous Fruity Smooth Yogurts. The ad, which features a girl kissing a boy to get his yoghurt, is part of a &£6m investment in Petits Filous.
Big Communications, a Leicester-based advertising agency, has created a national TV campaign to support Morphy Richards’ new cordless straightening irons. The work is part of a &£1.3m support package for the full haircare range.
The city of Leeds has unveiled a new brand banner – “Leeds Live it Love it” – designed by creative agency England, and unveiled at a special ceremony in the city this week. The new logo and slogan comes a year after the creation of Marketing Leeds, the city’s first destination marketing organisation, with a […]
Reeling after successive blows from the media, public and politicians, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is attempting to climb off the canvas by launching a consumer charm offensive. From swathes of consumers rubbishing all marketing mail as “junk”, to MPs calling for residents to display stickers on front doors warding off direct marketers, the sector […]
Advertising agency HDM has merged with direct marketing shop WDPA and digital specialist Mitchell Conner Searson (MCS) to form an integrated agency called Souk Communications. The agency has three operating divisions – Souk Advertising, Souk Response and Souk Digital. It has 60 staff and billings worth about &£40m. Its clients include Sony, Tesco and Vodafone. […]
Berlin Cameron/Red Cell has created a global advertising campaign to support next month’s launch of the compact version of the Wall Street Journal international editions.
The news that Ben Langdon has been ousted as UK chairman of Euro RSCG Worldwide after just 17 months has prompted the inevitable round of speculation about what one of advertising’s most controversial figures will do next. Rumours have been rife in recent weeks that he is planning to launch another start-up and he is […]
News International’s (NI) foray into magazine publishing, announced last Friday, is not the first time the newspaper publisher has attempted such a move. Rupert Murdoch decided as far back as 1987, when he published youth-oriented Sky magazine as a joint venture with French publisher Hachette, that magazines have more global potential than newspapers. A separate […]
Today’s successful brands exploit a value theme rather than a single idea or unique selling point, but the impetus for a theme must come from customers When the Americans first entered the space race, NASA spent a small fortune trying to invent a ballpoint pen that would work in zero gravity. They never found an […]
Coca-Cola, Puma and Ben & Jerry’s have signed up to support this year’s Peace One Day event, which aims to celebrate a day of global ceasefire and non-violence. This year’s event will be held on September 21.