LONDON - IPC Media has named 25 Beautiful Homes editor Jane Parbury as the new editor of its market-leading Ideal Home magazine.
16 Jul 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Nike's World Cup TV advertising campaign featuring Real Madrid star Luis Figo and Eric Cantona was the most talked about commercial of the past three months, according to a survey.
16 Jul 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - British tobacco company Gallaher Group has formed a joint venture with American rival RJ Reynolds, which makes Camel cigarettes, worth an estimated $200m (£127m) to market American blend cigarette brands in Europe.
16 Jul 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - USA Today publisher Gannett has reported a 5% rise in second-quarter profits, which it said were boosted by advertising revenues from its television business.
16 Jul 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Golden Wonder's sale of its Wotsits brand to rival Walkers has been given the go-ahead by the government.
16 Jul 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Software that claims to make the media planning and buying process more efficient is being launched this week and has already been snapped up by some of London's biggest media-buying firms.
LONDON - Advertising and media stocks continued to fall this morning after early gains were quickly reversed, with Cordiant Communications, Granada and Trinity Mirror among the biggest fallers.
16 Jul 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - The latest Bellwether Report defies the predictions of the major industry pundits and says that there are signs of a recovery in marketing spend, despite the advertising sector continuing to suffer.
16 Jul 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Kerrang!, Emap's rock and nu-metal weekly magazine, is launching an FM radio station in Birmingham, the hometown of ageing rocker and star of his own reality TV show Ozzy Osbourne.
16 Jul 2002
| by Staff,
LONDON - Sarah Dunn, the head of Reuters media division, has lost her job along with 650 other redundancies announced earlier this year.