18 Dec 1997
| by AMANDA LUTCHFORD
Standard Life has appointed The Leith Agency to handle its
corporate advertising account, reportedly worth pounds 10m, which covers
branding work for its soon-to-launch banking and telesales
operations.
18 Dec 1997
| by PATRICK BARRETT
The RAC is to drop its unconventional approach to marketing by
dissolving its virtual agency system and replacing marketing director
Jan Smith with Littlewoods former marketing chief, Findlay
Cordwell.
18 Dec 1997
| by Anne-Marie Crawford
Associated Newspapers is poised to move into the pounds 127m
contract publishing business with the launch of standalone division,
Contract Mail.
18 Dec 1997
| by PATRICK BARRETT
The Spice Girls may yet be a big hit on the silver screen but
they ve already proved a massive miss in TV ads. According to
Marketing s Most Annoying Ad of the Year survey, the Girls ad for
Walkers Crisps irritated more viewers than any other.
18 Dec 1997
| by AMANDA RICHARDS
Butlin s, the Rank-owned holiday company, has increased its 1998
marketing budget threefold, to pounds 10m, in its most serious attempt
yet to reposition itself for the new millennium.
18 Dec 1997
| by DANNY ROGERS
The Burton Group and Littlewoods are launching a jointly-operated
direct home shopping company. Burton will hold a 65% stake in the
company and its brands will appear in Littlewoods existing
catalogues.
18 Dec 1997
| by DANNY ROGERS
The marketing push behind Goldfish, tracked during the summer as
the UK s fastest-growing credit card, has been voted the best direct
marketing campaign of the year.
18 Dec 1997
| by DANNY ROGERS
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has challenged the Advertising
Standards Authority to crack down on advertising for Camel boots and
Marlboro Classics clothing, following a recent acknowledgement by the
government that this practice is indirect advertising for tobacco
products .
18 Dec 1997
| by DANNY ROGERS
Chrysalis Radio has awarded the pounds 1m creative account for its
Galaxy dance music stations to north-west ad agency Juice, in a move to
brand its two new stations under the Galaxy banner.
18 Dec 1997
| by DANNY ROGERS
The Marketing/NSPCC Christmas Card Competition was judged last
week, with two winners emerging from our biggest-ever entry. In the
ten- to 16-year-old category it was Louise Smith, aged 11, who came
first with Snowy Night . Louise, whose parents work for NEBS Business
Stationery in Chester, wins a...