Health market shaken up by second spa launch
09 Dec 2002 | by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - A new consumer magazine for fans of beauty spas called Spa Life is to hit newsstands across the UK in January, giving the niche sector its second title.
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LONDON - Haircare brand John Frieda has named Zenith Optimedia as its sole European media planning and buying agency, following its acquisition by Kao in August 2002.
LONDON - A new consumer magazine for fans of beauty spas called Spa Life is to hit newsstands across the UK in January, giving the niche sector its second title.
LONDON - Yves Saint Laurent is to risk infuriating the British public by placing the controversial male full-frontal nude ads for the new men's fragrance M7 in the magazines The Face, i-D and Dazed & Confused.
LONDON - Kingfisher has confirmed that Gerry Murphy, chief executive of Carlton Communications, is to take the chief executive role after months of speculation that he would leave the ITV company.
LONDON - Procter & Gamble, the UK's largest advertiser, is flexing its muscle over the proposed merger between the ITV companies Carlton and Granada, saying that it could abandon the network altogether.
LONDON - Leading advertisers have added to ITV's problems, telling the troubled television network that they are planning to pull their advertising budgets from the channel in the face of falling audience numbers.
LONDON - WPP Group has scored a major coup as its MindShare media agency is understood to have been awarded Gillette's £400m global media buying account, despite not having previously worked for the shaving giant.
LONDON - The £320m advertising deal ITV signed with Unilever has been given the green light by the Independent Television Commission, following an investigation over fears that Carlton Communications and Granada had illegally colluded.
SYDNEY - Conde Nast is effectively withdrawing from publishing in Australia, selling the licence to publish Vogue and other titles to Australian lifestyle publisher FPCLiving.
LONDON - Leading Dutch soccer clubs Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord are taking Sony to court, claiming a new game for its PlayStation console infringes the clubs' trademark rights.