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Tetley Tea is reviewing its pounds 5 million advertising account held by D'Arcy in a move that could signal the end of its iconic frontmen, the Tetley Teafolk. The move brings D'Arcy's hold on the Tetley account under threat after a tenure of more than 20 years. The agency picked up the...
First Choice Holidays has appointed Perspectives Red Cell to the pounds 6 million direct marketing account for its Eclipse brand. Eclipse sells holidays and flights direct to consumers. Perspectives won the business after a six-way pitch against agencies including the incumbent agency 141,...
Mars Europe is calling a review of its pan-European Mars Bar creative account, a move that further weakens D'Arcy's relations with the advertiser. The decision to review is thought to have been taken last week following a meeting of senior Mars executives in the United States. Agency...
BMP DDB's hold on the ONdigital business is in jeopardy following news that the media owner is in talks with another agency about taking on the pounds 27 million account. Sources say that ONdigital is unhappy with BMP over its suggested plans for the massive advertising campaign that is...
Labour is stepping up its attack on the Tories by unveiling another Hollywood-style poster, which shows William Hague and Michael Portillo as deep sea divers. Echoing Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the ad is headed "pounds 20 billion cuts under the Tories", the amount by which...
Must a conscientious media type spend three days out of the office and pounds 1,600 to take the temperature of the outdoor industry? Here, as a service to readers who did not make it to Barcelona last week, is an excuse not to. Or rather, here's the juicy bit, the rest appears in a news story...
New-business activity was up by 79 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2001 according to the newbizmoves database, produced by the AAR and MediaTel. The figures contradict the claims of many agencies that new business has been slow this year. However, the total value of pitches...
BBJ is to be repositioned as a communications planning operation in a radical restructure initiated by the managing director Trista Grant. Carat's sister agency, which was Campaign's media agency of the year for 2000, will continue to manage media buying in-house but is to concentrate...
Bradford & Bingley is reviewing its direct-marketing account after almost three years. The business, which has a budget of several million pounds, is currently held by Claydon Heeley Jones Mason, but the former building society is now talking to other agencies about the account....
The advertising holding company Interpublic Group is creating a new network called The Partnership, to be headed by Frank Lowe, the chairman of The Lowe Group and Lowe Lintas & Partners Worldwide. The restructure follows the holding company's recent acquisition of True North Communications....
