29 Oct 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Discount clothing retailer Matalan is understood to be considering using email and text messaging to alert its 8.6m customer database about special offers and other events.
25 Oct 2002
Nike is threatening Scottish Courage with legal action for tarnishing the Nike brand by associating it with "an overweight and apparently unskilled footballer" in its John Smith's ads, which feature the comedian Peter Kaye. The dispute centres on the use of the slogan "Just 'ave it" and the John Smith's...
25 Oct 2002
Ask yourself. What do Lena Zavaroni, one half of The Krankies, Mick Jagger, Geri Halliwell and Barnardo's all have in common? That's right.
24 Oct 2002
| by Mark Kleinman,
LONDON - River Island, the high street fashion retailer, is to unveil its first transactional internet site and has appointed Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw to the launch task.
24 Oct 2002
| by ALEXANDRA JARDINE
Levi-Strauss is preparing for the multi-million-pound global launch of Type 1 Jeans, a sub-brand that it expects to be bigger than its Engineered Jeans.
24 Oct 2002
FHM is launching a lingerie supplement, on sale October 25, packaged in a fishnet bag. The glossy 52-page booklet features 100 items of lingerie and is aimed at men buying for their partners.
24 Oct 2002
Reebok has launched a London-based brand showroom called the 'Trainer Lounge' to showcase products and deliver a brand vision to retailers and stylists. The 'Trainer Lounge' has been designed by The Jam. It has been split into three sections: UK heritage; urban; and sport, which is decked out with blue...
23 Oct 2002
| by Alexandra Jardine,
LONDON - Levi-Strauss is preparing for the multi-million-pound global launch of Type 1 Jeans, a sub-brand that it expects to be bigger than its Engineered Jeans.
18 Oct 2002
| by DOMINIC MILLS, dominic.mills@haynet.com
OK, readers - see if you spot a trend in the last three ads reviewed in this column: Army, BT broadband and Thomas Pink shirts. Easy. I've been sub-consciously picking bloke-type things to review.
18 Oct 2002
| by ROB GRAY
Rob Gray takes a look at the history behind four pan-European creative campaigns that are run out of European cities other than London.