28 Jun 2002
BRAND WATCH - John Travolta's latest role will see him take to the sky, while train company Amtrak and a dotcom sock puppet made comebacks, writes Jennifer Whitehead in this week's Brand Watch .
28 Jun 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Brazilian agency DPZ Propaganda has been stripped of its two Cannes Golden Lions for work on Johnson & Johnson's KY brand, after an investigation revealed that the agency had not worked for the company for three years.
28 Jun 2002
Mayday Payday, the scheme under which agency and media company
staff were invited to donate a day's pay to Nabs, the industry charity,
has raised £180,000. About 1,000 people responded to the appeal.
28 Jun 2002
| by Jenny Watts
LONDON Saatchi %26 Saatchi London shone at the Cannes International Advertising Festival 2002, being named Agency of the Year and scooping the print Grand Prix as well as a total of six gold Lions.
28 Jun 2002
| by IAN DARBY
COI Communications is reviewing Ogilvy %26 Mather's status as its
agency for stand-by business.
The Government's advertising policy was in turmoil this week with
the resignation of Derek Dear as the chairman of the Government's
Advisory Committee on Advertising and his stinging attack on Whitehall
inaction.
28 Jun 2002
COI Communications and the Department for Work and Pensions have
held a meeting to encourage roster agencies to increase the use of
images of disabled people. One in ten people in the UK are disabled. -
Marketing.
28 Jun 2002
| by CAMILLA PALMER
Carol Fisher once admitted her dream job would be heading an
upmarket travel company. Now she has the chance to explore such
unconventional career options following her resignation as the chief
executive at COI Communications last week.
28 Jun 2002
Please oh please protect us from earnest MPs, meddling Brussels
busybodies and health fascists who believe us incapable of protecting
ourselves and regard it as their mission to do it for us. Consider last
week's evidence of their combined malevolence.
28 Jun 2002
But far from being a trophy, both shops and charities take the
responsibilities very seriously. Lucy Aitken talks to the big UK shops
and their charity clients.