23 Feb 2001
| by DOMINIC MILLS
There are a few phrases commonly used in this business which
invariably make me suspicious. One of them is 'This is just a holding
ad' which, translated, means: 'We haven't figured out what we want to do
yet, but the client insists we get something out. So here it is'.
The last time I heard...
22 Feb 2001
| by EMMA REYNOLDS
Orange, Europe s third-biggest mobile operator, has unveiled its first major work through Lowe Lintas, which won the account last July.
22 Feb 2001
Nancy Dull has been hired as associate director of marketing at high-tech marketing and planning company, CACI. She joins from Barraclough Hall Woolston Gray, where she worked on developing marketing communications campaigns for blue-chip clients.
22 Feb 2001
Ralph Diment takes on the new role of product marketing manager, mapping and GIS solutions, with technology and software solutions company, Intergraph UK. He previously worked as a senior application engineer with the firm.
22 Feb 2001
If you're involved in making global marketing decisions, then The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L Friedman, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pounds 20.31), is a must read.
Friedman looks at the rules within the global market on issues such as trade moves, culturalisation and localisation. He debates...
15 Feb 2001
| by BEN ROSIER
Apple Computer's top European marketer, Bruno Didier, has left the company as it struggles to stay in profit.
15 Feb 2001
| by POPPY BRECH
Virgin Mobile is to become the first prime-time interactive advertiser on ITV. Its ad will break in an interactive version of the BRIT Awards.
15 Feb 2001
| by TANIA MASON
Time Computers has had its fair share of tribulations lately. First it was forced to re-finance, then its new marketing director, Mike Phillipson, left after just six months to write a novel.
But it must have hit rock bottom when its ad appeared in the March issue of PC Advisor.
The ad, designed...
12 Feb 2001
The Co-operative Movement has pledged to develop a new national brand as part of a radical shake-up designed to boost its underperforming operations.
12 Feb 2001
The Co-operative Movement has pledged to develop a new national brand as part of a radical shake-up designed to boost its underperforming operations.