STOP PRESS: Whole Earth Group sells organic food brand
19 Dec 2002
Whole Earth Group has sold its organic food brand, Whole Earth Foods, to Kallo Foods for an undisclosed sum, to enable it to concentrate on growing its Green Black's chocolate brand.
GlaxoSmithKline is redesigning the packaging of its Lucozade range for the first time in seven years, through Seachange Creative Partners. Lucozade Energy is using a 'bubbles' theme, while Lucozade Sport will get a 'winner' icon and a 'your sport, our science' strapline.
Whole Earth Group has sold its organic food brand, Whole Earth Foods, to Kallo Foods for an undisclosed sum, to enable it to concentrate on growing its Green Black's chocolate brand.
Camelot has signed letters of intent with French and Spanish lottery operators to launch a weekly Lotto-type game with a Friday night draw featuring a jackpot of around 15m euros (£9.7m). In the UK and France the provisional name for the game is Euromillions and it will be called Euromilliones in Spain.
SCA Hygiene has awarded Fallon the £10m creative account for its Velvet toilet tissue brand. The appointment comes after incumbent Publicis resigned the account over conflicts stemming from its hiring to Procter Gamble's global roster.
Diageo and Brown-Forman are locked in a legal wrangle over who controls the rights to distribute Jack Daniel's in the UK. Brown-Forman ended a 17-year distribution deal with Diageo in July and handed control to Bacardi-Martini, but Diageo claims it should have had renewal rights.
Asics, the Japanese sportwear manufacturer, is launching its first-ever UK TV campaign through Publicis to help broaden the appeal of the brand in the UK. The single execution breaks on MTV on Saturday (December 21). The agency created the ad free-of-charge and said that it did so to raise its creative...
The latest, and what was widely expected to be the last, series of Friends due to air on Channel 4 and E4 in the New Year, may not be the last series after all (Media, page 6). Warner Bros is due to announce on January 12 whether the Friends stars have agreed to appear in another series.
Fox Kids Europe has appointed former Sky general manager Bruce Steinberg as its chief executive. Steinberg, who replaces Ynon Kreiz, will be responsible for all Fox Kids Europe channels across 56 countries.
First Choice Holidays will start its peak booking season ad campaign on December 26 through Walsh Trott Chick Smith. The '£5m Sun Strip' campaign will run across radio, press and outdoor sites. The company is also reworking its Travel Choice shops to look more like its First Choice operator brand.
Cadbury Schweppes has bought US sweet maker Adams, owner of the Trident and Dentyne gum brands and Halls cough drops, from Pfizer for £2.62bn.