Kate Robertson, Bates Europe s business development director, is to set up a London office for Scholz and Friends, one of Germany s top ten agencies.
The Government is set to extend its proposed ban on tobacco promotion to include severe curbs on direct marketing. The move comes just two weeks after the pressure group, Action On Smoking, raised the issue.
BMP Optimum, whose joint managing director and media planning expert, Derek Morris leaves this week, has poached WCRS s strategic communications director, Mark Palmer.
The heads of the world s major advertising groups are being asked to support a campaign by Britain s creative directors to halt the rising costs of the Cannes advertising festival.
CIA UK has poached the second-in-command at the rival media buyer, Carat UK, to spearhead an aggressive expansion drive.
HHCL and Partners St George film for Blackcurrant Tango has had a warm reception at Cannes, but jurors are warning that the competition for this year s TV Grand Prix is still wide open, with strong contenders coming particularly from the US and Netherlands.
Koki Ando, the president and son of the founder of Nissin Foods, has been named as the 1997 advertiser of the year at Cannes. Nissin is the first Japanese winner and follows in the footsteps of Levi s, Nike and Heineken.
Two familiar trends dominated Cannes this year - the use of ambient media and the emphasis on strong visuals at the expense of copy.
Leo Burnett London landed the prestigious Press and Poster Grand Prix at the 44th Cannes International Advertising Festival, held in Cannes this week, with skidmarks for Mercedes-Benz.
An ad for Legal and General showing a man having a heart attack has emerged as one of this year s festival turkeys.
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