31 Oct 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Events agency Big Fish is to handle sponsorship for the biggest music festival in Scotland, T in the Park, for 2003.
31 Oct 2002
| by Camilla Palmer,
LONDON - Safeway is returning to TV advertising after a three-year break, with a six-month regional campaign that promotes the supermarket chain's philosophy of freshness and value.
31 Oct 2002
| by Staff,
LONDON - The new boss of COI Communications will be chosen next week from a shortlist of five men chasing the £120,000-a-year job of succeeding Carol Fisher.
31 Oct 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Drambuie will tell consumers to stay home and 'put tomorrow on ice' in a return to television advertising in the run-up to Christmas.
31 Oct 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Shoppers will be warned not to go on mad shopping sprees because their interest rates have been reduced, in the latest advertising from Barclaycard.
31 Oct 2002
| by Mark Sweney,
LONDON - GlaxoSmithKline is talking to non-roster agencies about the £3m account for its Lucozade Sport drink, currently held by Ogilvy & Mather.
31 Oct 2002
| by Parliamentary correspondent,
LONDON - Hopes that TV and radio commercials will be brought into line with the self-regulatory system for print advertising have been boosted by a U-turn by the government.
31 Oct 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - The planned takeover of the US's biggest satellite TV provider DirecTV by its smaller rival EchoStar looks set to be scuppered, as reports emerge that the US Department of Justice will block the deal.
31 Oct 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - IBM is to invest as much as $800m (£513m) in advertising over the next 12 months to promote what it calls its 'on-demand computing' initiative.
31 Oct 2002
| by Jenny Watts,
LONDON - Jo Godman is stepping down from Godman, the market- leading production company she formed six years ago, to devote more time to her personal life.