Beattie emerges as creative chief after TBWA-GGT’s merger
22 May 1998 | by CAROLINE MARSHALL
Omnicom has announced the merger of TBWA International and BDDP Worldwide.
HHCL & Partners has scooped the pounds 9 million Thomson Holidays advertising account after a pitch against Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and the incumbent agency, BMP DDB.
Omnicom has announced the merger of TBWA International and BDDP Worldwide.
Agencies will soon be asked to pitch for a Government campaign worth up to pounds 5 million to tell British business to get ready for the launch of the European single currency.
NatWest bank is reviewing its pounds 50 million-plus above- and below-the-line business as it considers pooling the account into a single agency.
Tony Adams, Arsenal s Double-winning team captain, has been signed by McVitie s to make his solo advertising debut in a television campaign for Jaffa Cakes.
The stranglehold of the Leith Agency and Faulds Advertising was broken at the 18th Roses Awards this week as a radio ad for Amerada Gas, created by the production company, Pulse, won the chairman of the judges award.
A number of advertisers have declared war on BARB, the organisation responsible for TV audience measurement, in response to fresh attempts to force them to pay thousands more pounds to access TV viewing data.
Simon Derungs, who runs the Co-operative Bank and BT business at Partners BDDH, is quitting the agency to handle pounds 30 million worth of business at M&C Saatchi.
Publicis Focus, the Publicis second-string shop which created a stir last month with its raunchy advertising for the Nicky Clarke haircare range, is to be repositioned as its parent agency s international division.
David Beckham, the Manchester United and England soccer star, returns to school in Leagas Delaney s latest commercial for Adidas.