31 May 2006
| by by Joe Lepper
LONDON - Capital Radio's marketing director Carl Lyons has quit the GCap-owned London-based radio station after three years.
LONDON - Eric Schlosser, campaigning author of 'Fast Food Nation' and 'Chew on This', has launched a scathing attack on Ofcom's proposals for the advertising of food to children.
31 May 2006
| by by Sarah Woods and Joanne Oatts
LONDON - Premier Foods has appointed Publicis to handle the £8m advertising account for its Quorn vegetarian food range, following a competitive pitch.
LONDON - Gap has hired Naked to handle its pan-European communications strategy.
LONDON - Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, has claimed that the corporation is the only European media owner that can take on the might of Google and AOL.
LONDON - HM Revenue & Customs has selected PHD and ZenithOptimedia, following a pitch managed by the Central Office of Information, to develop communication strategies.
31 May 2006
| by by Drew Barrand
LONDON - Peter Draper is stepping down from one of the biggest jobs in sports marketing after quitting his role as director of marketing at Manchester United.
LONDON - McCain has ended months of speculation with the appointment of Beattie McGuinness Bungay to handle its £15m advertising business.
31 May 2006
| by by Drew Barrand
LONDON - Camelot chief executive Dianne Thompson has become the first woman to be named the UK's most powerful marketer after rising to the head of Marketing's annual Power 100 list.
31 May 2006
| by by Sarah Woods
LONDON - National Express has been forced to apologise following an ad for £1 tickets to Newquay, which targeted surfers, after it refused to allow one onto the coach... because he had a surfboard.