LONDON - Ann Fudge is retiring as Young & Rubicam's worldwide boss after less than three years in the job.
LONDON - The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is hunting for an advertising agency to develop a climate change campaign to encourage consumers to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions.
LONDON - Carat has won the £5.5m communications planning business for a new government campaign for the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency, aimed at reminding motorists to tax their vehicles.
LONDON - Prudential Group is conducting a review of its above and below-the-line advertising accounts for its Prudential and Egg brands, which are worth an estimated £27m.
28 Nov 2006
| by by Mark Banham, Alex Donohue and Jo Payne
LONDON - The shock appointment of Michael Grade as executive chairman at ITV this morning on a package worth an estimated £8m was welcomed by the media industry today, with the industry pointing to Grade's commercial background as a good omen for the future of the troubled broadcaster.
LONDON - Courtney Love will broadcast rare Nirvana and Hole sessions on BBC 6Music, when she takes over the station for the day on December 11.
LONDON - General Motors has handed DLKW the £70m pan-European brief to launch its latest Astra model next year.
LONDON - The popularity of BBC World's news output in the US is on the rise, overtaking its cable competitors, according to an independent report by The Erdos and Morgan Opinion Leaders Survey.
LONDON - Veteran radio broadcaster Alan 'Fluff' Freeman has died aged 79 after a short illness.
28 Nov 2006
| by by Robin Parker
LONDON - IPC's forthcoming magazine launch, developed under the code name Project Honey, is expected to be a joint venture with French publisher Groupe Marie Claire.