Lever Faberge has called a pan-European pitch for its Organics haircare range. Two Unilever roster networks - the incumbent, J. Walter Thompson, and Lowe Lintas Paris - will battle for the estimated pounds 10 million task. The account was worth pounds 2 million for the UK market last...
Bert Meerstadt, the chief executive of Young & Rubicam Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has resigned. Meerstadt will return to the Netherlands to become the chief commercial officer and a member of the board of Dutch Railways, Nederlandse Spoorwegen. Meerstadt, who relinquishes...
LONDON - Grey Worldwide London has parted company with Martin Smith, its chief executive, little more than a year after he was hired to boost the agency's creative product and its profile.
The Government is risking controversy with news that it has been approaching advertising agencies through COI Communications with a view to doing an ad campaign to support animal testing. The Government is hoping to meet two objectives with the campaign. First, to convince the public that...
Neil Dawson, one of the five stakeholders in Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy, is quitting the agency to take the planning helm at TBWA/London. Dawson joined MCBD in September 1999. He becomes TBWA's executive planning director. Neil Hourston, TBWA's head of planning, will report...
For those who savour being able to say 'I told you so', the news that Martin Smith has stepped down from the chairman's position at Grey Worldwide London has a certain poetic justice to it. For a little over a year ago, the sight of an agency that is largely about grinding out process-driven...
The US telecommunications giant Sprint has appointed the creative communications agency Naked to handle the media strategy for its launch into Europe and Asia, while MediaVest has picked up the buying account. The media appointments follow on from Sprint's appointment in March of the...
Steve Williams, a managing partner of OMD UK, has been promoted to managing director of the agency as part of an ongoing restructure of the office in London and its European network. Williams, who has been with the agency for more than ten years, is filling a position held by Paul Taylor...
Campaign Screen and D&AD have named 23-year-old Carl Erik Rinsch the Best New Director 2001 in their first annual competition. Supported by getoutthere.bt.com, the competition aims to inject new blood into the ad industry by finding and showcasing new talent. Rinsch was selected from...
Fruit of the Loom, the US clothing manufacturer, which teetered on the edge of bankruptcy less than two years ago, has appointed Manchester's Barrington Johnson Lorains to help it reclaim its European markets. The company is putting pounds 3 million behind a renewed pan-European initiative...
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