BMW retains Rover name in pounds 10 sale
11 May 2000 | by CORDELIA BRABBS
BMW may have sold Rover s plant, equipment and debt to the Phoenix consortium for just pounds 10 this week, but it has held on to the brand name.
Open, the interactive TV platform, has called a review of its pounds 12m creative account just eight months after its launch.
BMW may have sold Rover s plant, equipment and debt to the Phoenix consortium for just pounds 10 this week, but it has held on to the brand name.
The Advertising Standards Authority this week warned retailers against using scaremongering tactics regarding genetically modified foods and organic produce in their advertising, as it upheld complaints against ads from both Iceland and Tesco.
Tesco marketing director Tim Mason has been named chairman of Tesco.com, the newly rebranded e-commerce operation which the retailer is in the process of spinning off from the main business.
Sue Farr will leave the BBC at the end of this month after seven years of building marketing into the organisation.
Excite Europe, the portal and ISP, has appointed Bartle Bogle Hegarty to its pounds 25m-plus ad business as it gears up for its first major pan-European promotional drive.
WPP is set to acquire Young and Rubicam this week in a deal valued between dollars 4.7bn and dollars 5.5bn. Y&R will join J Walter Thompson and Ogilvy Group with WPP, ranking it the largest group in the world. Publicis broke off talks with Y&R on Monday, declining to make an offer for the company.
United Distillers and Vintners Malibu brand has signed a sponsorship deal with Channel 4 youth programme Flava, which for the first time will see a TV sponsorship extended into radio.
Guinness has seconded its UK managing director to lead an ambitious project to turn its Guinness Book of World Records into an online brand, which could include people bidding live to break records.
BT Cellnet is providing pounds 15m worth of WAP mobile phones to Halifax s online banking arm, IF, to be given free to IF customers taking out a current account and a credit card.