Ford invites O&M to offer ideas for Euro branding campaign
28 May 1999 | by CLAIRE COZENS
Ogilvy & Mather is making its first inroads into the Ford of Europe business it lost to Young & Rubicam last year.
Thomson Holidays is creating a division specialising in low-budget holidays for the mass market and has asked its roster agencies, HHCL & Partners and Mustoe Merriman Herring Levy, to pitch for the launch advertising task.
Ogilvy & Mather is making its first inroads into the Ford of Europe business it lost to Young & Rubicam last year.
Campaign s parent company, Haymarket Group, has bought a strategic stake in Media s leading advertising publication, Media. The move is part of Haymarket s plans to develop its global media and advertising portfolio.
Saatchi s 14-year relationship with the Anchor brand is over after the client, New Zealand Milk, fired the agency from its pounds 5.5 million creative account.
The Dell Computer Corporation has appointed Carat to its newly centralised pounds 20 million home and small business media account across Europe - and is now in talks with agencies about centralising the creative account.
Peter Crossing, chairman of Bates UK s below-the-line agency, Blue Skies 141, has resigned along with his managing director, Andrew Annette, and his client services director, Olly Raeburn.
This week s news that the Government is to speed up the implementation of the European Union s ban on tobacco advertising will have brought a smile to the lips of spin doctors everywhere.
Ericsson Mobile Systems, one of the biggest mobile telephone manufacturers in the world, is talking to agency networks about its multi-million pound business-to-business account.
The vacuum manufacturer, Dyson, has put its pounds 5 million UK media planning and buying up for pitch, four months after reviewing its media account in continental Europe.
Haymarket Magazines is launching its first consumer magazine about the internet with the net, which hits the newsstands in June.