13 Dec 1999
| by COLIN GRIMSHAW
Dennis Publishing has confirmed plans for a women s glossy, which
aims to tap in to the growing home shopping market, estimated to be
worth pounds 13 billion by 2002.
13 Dec 1999
| by MARK TUNGATE
Initiative Media has bagged the centralised media planning and
buying account for the National Magazine Company (Media Business, 22
November). Initiative saw off competition from Mediapolis and Universal
McCann to take the estimated pounds 4 million task, which had previously
been handled by several...
10 Dec 1999
| by PATRICK SEMPLE, creative director of Ba
Trillion. It s a real boy s-toy of a word - a billion K - it s also
the number of US dollars that IDC predicts the internet economy will be
worth by 2001. Which is doubtless why everyone s looking to carve a
slice of that sticky-portal pie and may explain the recent surge of
interest in sites that offer...
10 Dec 1999
| by TREVOR BEATTIE, creative director of TB
I m a sad and lonely earthworm. So sad and lonely and blue. Having
said that, I m probably the only slimy, hermaphrodite, dirt-gobbling,
animatronic member of the Oligochaeta family capable of pulling off an
even passable impersonation of Perry Como. Oh, and I m starring in the
best commercial on television....
10 Dec 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Dennis Publishing is to launch its first glossy women s title in
February 2000, and has recruited Rachel Shattock, who edits NatMags M,
as editor.
03 Dec 1999
| by GORDON SMITH, creative director of Wals
When the Americans started going into space, they realised their
astronauts needed a way of recording data while inside the space
capsule.
02 Dec 1999
| by BEN ROSIER
Boots is set to launch a major online initiative in the next two
weeks, with a health and beauty site offering information and
transactions.
02 Dec 1999
| by JANE BAINBRIDGE
1900 - Coca-Cola is introduced to the UK by Charles Howard Candler,
the son of the company s founder.
26 Nov 1999
| by KAREN YATES
Ogilvy & Mather Europe has appointed Paul Smith as its new creative
director. Smith, 50, was most recently international executive creative
director at Grey.
25 Nov 1999
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
The Perfume Shop, a discount fragrance retailer, has hired Atlas
Advertising to create its first ad campaign.