David Wheldon stunned Coca-Cola this week by resigning from his new position as director of marketing greater Europe to become the president of BBDO Europe, the network that handles the arch-rival Pepsi brand.
The Leith Agency and Saatchi and Saatchi were the major prize winners at the 1996 Aerial Awards for radio advertising creativity, which were held at Bafta this week.
CIA has agreed to pay a sum of money equivalent to that which the ITV sales house, Laser Sales, claims it is owed for 1995 TV airtime into an escrow account, while the two parties work out what the final bill will be and conditions under which it will be paid.
The CIA/Laser dispute has split the industry over the issue of whether the TV airtime trading system requires a complete overhaul.
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has drafted in the Star Wars character, Darth Vader, for a new commercial for the Mars cough sweet brand, Tunes.
Manning Gottlieb Media is poised to appoint the interactive communications company, Indexfinger, to handle its entire new-media portfolio.
A settlement of the dispute between Bates Dorland and Paul Twivy, its former group chief executive, has moved nearer with an admission by the agency that Twivy was wrongfully dismissed.
The Liberal Democrats have decided not to appoint an agency to handle their general election campaign following the demise in September of Knight Leach Delaney (Campaign, 27 September).
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The body that lays down the rules for Britain s self-regulatory system of advertising control is facing criticism that it is losing its power and status.
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