Palmer-Tomkinson and Beckwith front new KFC campaign
30 Jan 1998 | by ELEANOR TRICKETT
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Tamara Beckwith are the latest celebrities to appear in ads for KFC.
FCB s London agency is set for a billings boost of more than pounds 8 million with assignments to handle creative work for the Clairol haircare and colour range and the UK launch of the Nabisco biscuit brand, Oreo.
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Tamara Beckwith are the latest celebrities to appear in ads for KFC.
Omnicom has made a pounds 143 million offer for the GGT Group in a deal that would make the US-based advertising conglomerate the largest in the world in revenue terms.
CIA Group is set to buy out BDDP GGT s stake in its joint venture media company, Media Solutions, following Omnicom s proposed acquisition of the creative agency this week.
Gap, the clothing retailer, has appointed IDK to handle its pounds 4 million media planning and buying business after a review.
Omnicom is saying it will not merge BDDP GGT with TBWA Simons Palmer should its proposed buyout of the GGT Group go ahead.
The proposed acquisition of the GGT Group is in line with the stated intention of Omnicom s chief executive, John Wren, to strengthen the group s third agency network brand, TBWA (feature, p24).
Viewed from London, it s easy to ridicule Omnicom s acquisition of the GGT group. A merger-weary UK market can only view the prospect of a combined TBWA Simons Palmer BDDP GGT with some mirth.
In an article, entitled Who s Hot and Who s Not? , published in the Reports section of 20 June edition of Campaign, Gerard de Thame was placed in the Whatever Happened to ...? category.
Equity is preparing to drive a wedge into what it believes are cracks appearing in the ad industry s united opposition to the boycott of commercials by the actors union.