17 Sep 1999
| by EMMA HALL
WCRS has scooped the #8 million Anchor business after a pitch
against Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and St Luke s.
Leo Burnett has picked up the #10 million launch task for
Zoom.co.uk, Arcadia s online shopping channel and free internet service
provider which is 50 per cent owned by Associated Newspapers.
The Financial Times is holding a pitch for a personal finance
website which aims to give consumers a simple guide to complicated
financial products and services.
Procter s biggest advertiser, is dropping the
commission system.
17 Sep 1999
| by ELEANOR TRICKETT
True North is hunting for another agency to further bolster its UK
presence after the merger of its FCB and Bozell subsidiaries in
London.
17 Sep 1999
| by ELEANOR TRICKETT
Mercedes-Benz has begun an audit of its advertising arrangements in
the UK in a move that could lead to a full agency review.
17 Sep 1999
| by STEFANO HATFIELD
Going e-WOL is the new black. Although I m sure TSMS s chief
executive, Jerry Hill, threw a party for Martina King when she told him
she was leaving after three months for Yahoo!, and Rupert Miles s Beeb
bosses waved him off to their direct commercial rivals with a Psion 5
and a Wild at Heart bouquet,...
17 Sep 1999
| by LISA CAMPBELL
Saatchi & Saatchi has restructured its internal operations and
expanded its management board in a bid to increase speed of delivery,
focus more clearly on key business and simplify its structure.
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising is to call on BSkyB
to end its practice of running sports updates during the ad breaks on
Sky Sports.
17 Sep 1999
| by EMMA HALL
J. Walter Thompson has seen off BMP DDB to win the #5 million
launch of First-e, the pan-European internet bank which goes live later
this month.