20 Dec 2001
Abbey National's online bank Cahoot is returning to TV advertising
after an 18-month break with a 3m campaign, through Euro RSCG
Wnek Gosper, aimed at communicating what the brand stands ...
than other banks. The strapline is, 'Like banking,
only different'. In one execution, a man is trying ...
20 Dec 2001
Egg, the internet bank owned by Prudential, has announced that it
broke even in the month of November, boosting its chances of achieving
its target to be profitable for the last quarter of 2001. The company
has attracted 129,300 extra customers since the start of October giving
it a total customer ...
20 Dec 2001
MTV Networks UK is to launch a 5m ad campaign for VH1. The
brand drive aims to impart the channel's positioning 'Music TV that's
not for kids', and intersperses childhood images such as drinking straws
with adult rock 'n' roll iconography such as rolled-up bank notes. The
campaign, created ...
20 Dec 2001
and financed by
Japanese investment bank Nomura.
September saw the company expand its All Bar One ...
20 Dec 2001
| by GAIL KEMP
, continued to run at key Easter and bank holiday trading periods. Bates also ran new, 'project ...
this year for the core Argos brand, supporting sales, two catalogue launches and bank holiday peaks ...
13 Dec 2001
| by RAVI CHANDIRAMANI
, putting incumbent Banks
Hoggins O'Shea/ FCB on alert.
The review comes just over a year after the company appointed Banks
Hoggins, which created the 'Small Guy' character for its TV ads ...
its sales increased 10% last year.
Banks Hoggins' work re-placed a succession of in-house pan ...
13 Dec 2001
| by SUZY BASHFORD
Nationwide has handed Leagas Delaney its TV advertising business in
a switch of strategy that sees the bank return to brand advertising.
Leagas Delaney will work alongside roster agencies after a four-way
pitch against Nationwide's in-house creative team, Leo Burnett and Banks
Hoggins O ...
13 Dec 2001
| by DANIEL ROGERS
to find their product niche, and
market it hard.
John Banks, chairman and chief executive at Banks Hoggins O'Shea FCB,
has worked on the Daily Mail account since 1965. He says, "You need ...
. Banks divides newspaper advertising into 'theme' or
'scheme', the former being brand advertising ...
13 Dec 2001
Diane Burdett, senior marketing communications manager, has left
high street bank Alliance & Leicester after taking voluntary redundancy.
Her departure follows that of Tim Pile, marketing director, and Pete
McNamara, managing director, earlier this year.
...
13 Dec 2001
| by MARK KLEINMAN
took up the position.
Adrian Batt, who joined the retail banking giant in January, has left ...
bases.
He was a key member of The Circle, the bank's internal marketing
services initiative ...
, was unavailable for
comment as Marketing went to press.
The bank last reviewed its DM agency roster just ...