French set to scrap TV advertising ban
04 Jul 2002 | by Staff,
PARIS - The French government could be set to scrap the law that stops retailers, publishers and film companies from advertising on French television.
LONDON - MindShare has raided its Far-East office to draft in Kelly Clark as the UK's new chief executive. Clark, the head of MindShare's Asia-Pacific region, takes over from Simon Rees, who is quitting the agency after three-and-a-half years to pursue interests outside the media industry.
PARIS - The French government could be set to scrap the law that stops retailers, publishers and film companies from advertising on French television.
LONDON - Retailing group The John Lewis Partnership has appointed its first external financial PR adviser, taking on Tulchan Communications as its retained agency.
LONDON - The government will reveal this month that it spent about £165m on advertising in the financial year which ended in April. The news is expected to ignite renewed criticism from the Tories and the Liberal Democrats that Labour is using taxpayer-funded campaigns for party political purposes.
LONDON - FTSE 100 brewing giant Scottish and Newcastle is on the hunt for a public affairs chief to lead its international public affairs efforts.
LONDON - OMD has succeeded in fighting off Carat to retain the £125m Nissan media planning and buying across all of its territories in Europe.
HONG KONG - The BBC World channel has been suspended from broadcast in China after showing a news bulletin that featured the banned religious cult Falun Gong.
LONDON - D'Arcy is mounting an effort to become an international below-the-line force with the launch of a global network called Arc.
LONDON - PRWeek's table of the UK's Top 50 consumer PR firms suggests the sector is healthier than expected, with 19 of the top 25 reporting growth in fee income.
LONDON - The Bartle Bogle Hegarty creative directors, Neil Dawson and Clive Pickering, are quitting the agency after only 10 months, citing "cultural differences".