Former British Airways PR boss Iain Burns is facing a possible prison sentence after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) charged him with helping to fix the price of fuel surcharges.
07 Aug 2008
| by Staff
LONDON - The British Heart Foundation is launching a two-minute, one-off ad, which will play at 9.17pm on Sunday 10 August, which will show Steven Berkoff simulating a heart attack.
07 Aug 2008
| by Oona Haas
LONDON - Shopper marketing agency Saatchi & Saatchi X has promoted Simon Hathaway from UK CEO to the newly created job of EMEA CEO, and hired Anthony Hopper as general manager for the UK.
LONDON - UKTV has rejigged its factual channel bosses, ahead of the channels' rebranding early next year.
LONDON - Living has bought the rights to broadcast the hit US NBC drama 'Lipstick Jungle', based on 'Sex and the City' author Candace Bushnell's best-selling book and starring Brooke Shields.
07 Aug 2008
| by David Allott
LONDON - Glasses Direct has become the first major UK customer for Platform A, AOL's new advertising division.
07 Aug 2008
| by Staff
SYDNEY - Australian brewery Coopers has scrapped a billboard advertising campaign after monarchists complained that it used a pro-republican political statement as a slogan.
LONDON - Microsoft Advertising has appointed Tom Pearman to the role of finance category development manager, to lead the company's finance sales.
07 Aug 2008
| by Sarah Crawley-Boevey
LONDON - Digital marketing company The Search Works has won the contract to handle search engine marketing for Mothercare and the Early Learning Centre.
LONDON - Marks & Spencer has employed mobile marketing agency Incentivated to add a response and voucher element to its 'Back to School' ad campaign.