Lever tablets to block P&G move
10 Sep 1998 | by STEVE BELL
Lever Brothers is to capitalise on the lead that its Persil tablets have given it over Procter s Ariel by launching laundry detergent tablets for its Surf and Radion brands next year.
Viewers may have less access to football on terrestrial television and advertisers will be forced to pay more to reach them if BSkyB s bid to buy Manchester United is given the nod.
Lever Brothers is to capitalise on the lead that its Persil tablets have given it over Procter s Ariel by launching laundry detergent tablets for its Surf and Radion brands next year.
Barclaycard has put its creative account, currently handled by BMP DDB, up for grabs.
Heinz has confirmed that it is conducting a global review of advertising arrangements for its ketchup brand, just days after launching a new TV campaign for the sauce across continental Europe.
US relationship marketing company Marketing1to1/Peppers and Rogers Group this week opens its first European operation in the UK.
Dominic Myers, Somerfield s associate director of marketing, left the company on Tuesday. His departure follows that of former marketing director David Coles, who left in April after the store s merger with Kwik Save was announced. Alan Shepherd, formerly marketing director for Kwik Save, has been appointed...
Hewlett-Packard (H-P) has appointed Publicis as its global ad agency for its PC business - an account worth dollars 200m (pounds 121m). It is the last of the three PC heavyweights, after Compaq and IBM, to centralise its advertising.
Procter & Gamble is planning to extend its Wash & Go shampoo brand into a major haircare range, starting with the roll-out of Wash & Go hairspray across Europe following a trial of five styling products in the Irish Republic.
Indian foods firm Patak s has lost its UK sales and marketing director Phil Lynas.
A new Electrolux FoodCare pan-European press campaign is to break in the UK on September 15. The four ads, created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty with media planned and bought by Motive, show in magnified, scientific detail the effect that Electrolux appliances have on the transformation and storage of food....