20 Dec 2001
The BBC has sacked Jeff Taylor, BBC Worldwide's director of global
marketing and brand development, who was arrested in Hong Kong in
October in connection with fraud allegations. He has been dismissed "on
grounds of breaching the company's employment policy on conflict of
interests".
20 Dec 2001
BP has launched a site to support its Connect petrol stations,
which it promotes as being environmentally friendly. The site, at
www.eco-connect.co.uk, has been created by design consultancy View, and
is aimed at businesses and consumers. It acts as a platform to put
forward BP's environmental...
20 Dec 2001
The RSPCA has overhauled its web site through digital agency
Lateral in an effort to better educate the public and animal
professionals about its aims. The new version, at www.rspca.org.uk, is
divided into 14 modules carrying updated animal welfare news, advice and
information. Visitors can...
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
| by TANIA MASON
home
quickly and safely at the end of the night. We wanted to use a piece of
media that facilitates ...
20 Dec 2001
| by RAVI CHANDIRAMANI
literature, with The Leith Agency handling creative work
and media planning and buying through BBJ ...
20 Dec 2001
| by TANIA MASON
Rennie, the indigestion remedy owned by pharmaceutical giant Roche,
is to sponsor UK Gold's Christmas comedy evening strand.
The deal comes on top of Rennie's 450,000 sponsorship of ITV's
Christmas programming and aims to maximise the traditional link between
Christmas and over-indulgence....
20 Dec 2001
The BBC's TV licensing division has pledged to focus on the
relentless pursuit of licence-fee evaders, through its new partnership
with Capita and Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. The two groups have replaced
Consignia as administrators of the system.
20 Dec 2001
Eric Fuller, publishing director of Loaded and Loaded Fashion, will
become group publishing director of IPC ignite! following the
resignation of incumbent Robert Tame.
20 Dec 2001
Cartoon Network is launching the first channel-branded interactive
games service on SkyDigital this week. Initially, Sky's 14 million
digital satellite viewers will be able to play Samurai Jack and The
Powerpuff Girls in Crystal Crisis.