Carphone Warehouse is set to review its pounds 10m ad account, following the departure of Simon Clemmow and Johnny Hornby from its ad agency, TBWA/London. Clemmow, TBWA's chief executive officer, and joint managing director Hornby have left to start up their own agency. It is understood...
Interbrew has appointed the first marketing director for its flagship Stella Artois brand. The appointment is part of a department rejig by marketing director Richard Evans to emphasise growth brands. Jo Franks, marketing controller for Stella Artois, takes up the position, reporting...
Centrica has poached Alliance & Leicester head of group marketing Nick Smith to be director of marketing and strategy for British Gas Trading. Smith, who takes up the post in June, will be responsible for marketing all British Gas Trading's consumer gas, electricity and telecoms services....
The Conservative Party has vowed to slash government spend on advertising should it win the next general election, following controversy over Labour's pounds 62m outlay on ads in the first three months of this year. Tory officials say that cutting government adspend would fall within the...
NTL's consumer marketing director, Janet Somerville, is understood to have lost her job as part of a restructure of the cable giant's marketing department. It emerged this week that Somerville, who was consumer marketing chief at Cable & Wireless before its merger with NTL last May, left...
COI Communications is to draw up its first media planning agency roster in a drive to improve the targeting of the government's advertising. Media planning for government campaigns is currently the responsibility of creative agencies, but COI Communications is looking to appoint a roster...
Orange has drafted in an agency appraisal consultancy, Relationship Auditing and Management (RAM), to evaluate and track its relationship with its roster of agencies. RAM will initially work with Orange's brand communications team, headed by Nicole Louis; its ad agency, Lowe Lintas, which...
The Greater London Authority (GLA) has appointed BMP DDB, Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper and Soul to its first ad agency roster. The appointments, made earlier this week, will see the agencies handed work on an individual project basis, rather than being assigned specific areas of responsibility....
Oxbow, the French sports clothing brand, has picked London agency Curio to handle its pounds 5m through-the-line global creative account, as it gears up to launch the brand worldwide. Curio beat incumbent Euro RSCG and an undisclosed French agency for the work. Paris-based Oxbow will hold...
Lufthansa this week unveils its biggest above-the-line campaign in five years, as it seeks to develop a more friendly image. The German airline's multi-million-pound campaign launched in Germany, France and the US last year. To counter research which showed the airline was perceived in the UK...
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