Spectre and Stark Films plot merger
29 Aug 2003 | by Rachel Gardner
Stark Films and Spectre are to merge, creating one of the most powerful production houses in the UK.
Somerfield is understood to have appointed M C Saatchi to handle its 7 million creative account.
Stark Films and Spectre are to merge, creating one of the most powerful production houses in the UK.
BMP DDB is to drop its BMP prefix as part of a wider DDB Worldwide initiative.
TBWA\London has teamed up with its sister media company Manning Gottlieb OMD to launch a media division within TBWA's offices.
In his book It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be, Paul Arden (self-endorsed creative genius) points out that in order to justify their generous salaries, creatives try very hard to have clever ideas. And clever ideas are actually rather rare.
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and McCann-Erickson remain the largest agencies in the UK, despite a fall in billings at AMV.
Capital Radio has hired Gavin Miller to fill the vacant position of commercial marketing director. Miller, who joins from Starcom Motive where he is a group account director, reports to the commercial managing director, Linda Grant.
Publicis has continued the overhaul of its creative department with the appointment of Colin Hickson as its new head of TV.
The Department for Trade and Industry has appointed WCRS and the new-media agency Dare Digital to handle the creative advertising for its awareness campaign of the new National Minimum Wage.
HP Bulmer, the brewery behind the Strongbow, Woodpecker and Scrumpy Jack brands, has shifted its 8 million media planning and buying account into Starcom MediaVest.