LONDON - Yves Saint Laurent is to risk infuriating the British public by placing the controversial male full-frontal nude ads for the new men's fragrance M7 in the magazines The Face, i-D and Dazed & Confused.
LONDON - October was a bad month for all the national press, except Richard Desmond's Daily Star, as price rises drove readers away in their thousands with a 1.03% fall in the overall daily market.
NEW YORK - The Interpublic Group of Companies is expected to announce that the accounting discrepancies relating to McCann-Erickson Europe are even larger than the $120m (£76m) it predicted in the middle of October.
LONDON - The AA has effectively consolidated its media planning and buying account into Manning Gottlieb OMD after it awarded the agency its £13m media planning and buying account following a three-way pitch.
LONDON - ITV has been dealt a serious blow with the news that December advertising revenues have fallen 9.6% year on year to £117m, according to reports.
LONDON – Pearson has again denied that it is planning to sell its flagship Financial Times newspaper following fresh reports from the US.
LONDON - WPP is facing a legal challenge over the purchase of financial events company International Presentations three years ago, as the two sides squabble about share allocations.
LONDON - A mix-up over ads for Kinder Surprise and Kinder Bueno led to the line 'you can lick my ripples' being broadcast on children's television channels.
LONDON - Media magnate Sir Anthony O'Reilly has emerged as the frontrunner in the race for the Herald group of newspapers, which includes the Glasgow-based Herald, put up for sale by Scottish Media Group.
Originally published in 'Consumer Superbrands Volume IV', May 2001. The book reviews the UK's strongest consumer brands as judged by the independent Superbrands Council.
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