31 May 1996
| by EMMA HALL
Young and Rubicam has been appointed by Sega Europe to launch the games
giant into the PC CD-Rom market with the July release of Virtua Fighter,
one of Sega s top arcade games, in the new format.
31 May 1996
| by KAREN YATES
Samsung has briefed two agencies about a massive branding campaign that
it is planning to launch across Europe in a make-or-break move to take
on its big Japanese rivals, Sony and Panasonic.
31 May 1996
| by HARRIET GREEN
Bartle Bogle Hegarty and its media arm, Motive, have snatched Golden
Wonder s full-service ad account from Ogilvy and Mather, the incumbent
on the business for the past five years.
31 May 1996
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
First Direct is gearing up to review its pounds 6 million media account
out of Pattison Horswell Durden.
31 May 1996
TBWA is understood to have landed the pounds 25 million advertising task
to raise awareness of the new Fujitsu brand of personal computers in
Europe after a three-way pitch.
WCRS has made a dramatic bid to win the centralised media business of
Rover and BMW by teaming up with Initiative Media to compete for the
pounds 65 million account.
31 May 1996
Trebor Bassett s roster agencies, Leagas Shafron Davis and WCRS, could
be in line for an extra slice of the confectioner s advertising business
following the acquisition by its parent, Cadbury Schweppes, of the
sweets company, Craven Keiller.
31 May 1996
| by EMMA HALL
Maher Bird Associates has secured a place on the Central Office of
Information s agency roster with the launch of an earnings top-up scheme
for the Department of Social Security.
31 May 1996
Arc Advertising has increased the pressure on the Sunday Business, with
which it parted company last month, and served a writ demanding that the
paper pay its bills.
31 May 1996
| by KAREN YATES
The International Fund for Animal Welfare has chosen GGT to handle its
pounds 1 million advertising account.