THIS WEEK: Tesco launches hypermarkets
14 Nov 1996 | by JULIAN LEE
Tesco, which has already extended its brand into the Metro and Express formats, is planning a move into hypermarkets with the opening of its biggest UK store early next year.
Walkers marketing chief Martin Glenn is being promoted to a general management job within owner Pepsico as a reward for his award-winning work for the pounds 430m snacks division.
Tesco, which has already extended its brand into the Metro and Express formats, is planning a move into hypermarkets with the opening of its biggest UK store early next year.
Television viewers would like to wash Head s annual survey of 500 people voted it the most irritating ad on the box.
BT s high-profile It s Good to Talk campaign has won UK advertising s top prize, the Grand Prix in the IPA Advertising Effectiveness Awards, just as the format of the commercials is about to change.
CIA Medianetwork s clients are having to look at alternative media for the beginning of 1997 as deadlines for January TV airtime close at the end of the week and the legal battle with Laser has escalated.
Companies are seriously out of touch with consumer attitudes towards cause-related marketing and underestimate the ability of charity link- ups to increase sales.
Kwik Save is to slash up to 500 brands as part of its New Generation review to set it on the road to recovery.
American Express has recruited MasterCard s ex-chief of UK marketing, George Strachan, to handle marketing and distribution to companies that accept the Amex card.
Anchor s pounds 5m marketing push behind its Anchor Spreadable Butter brand could be under threat by a Customs and Excise ruling which has seen a number of New Zealand Dairy Board (NZDB) executives arrested.
Doritos sponsorship of the ITV Movie Premieres attracted 96 complaints to the ITC over bad taste for manipulating images of dead film stars. John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich and Charlie Chaplin all feature in the ads. The slots were created by Walkers advertising agency BMP DDB.