31 Jan 1997
| by MEG CARTER
Option One has started 1997 by clinching two prestigious new
accounts. Chrysler Jeep has appointed Option One to handle its direct
marketing and sales promotion activity, worth up to pounds 1 million,
while Marks and Spencer Financial Services has chosen the agency to run
its cardholder communications...
30 Jan 1997
| by NEIL WEBSTER, Head of national sales LB
The media industry continually strives to develop new means of
getting an advertiser s message in front of the right type of consumer.
Internet banner advertising, ads at the bottom of golf holes, Chinese
takeaway lids - the opportunities are endless.
30 Jan 1997
| by JANE BAINBRIDGE
Alliance & Leicester Personal Finance is running a combined poster
campaign and door drop to six million homes until the end of February
through Tri-Direct.
30 Jan 1997
| by NINA JASINSKI, Business development dir
Scholl, the sandals-to-footcare manufacturer, has handed its pounds
1.5m corporate below-the-line account to Claydon Heeley International
with a brief to focus on branding its outlets total footcare
centres .
30 Jan 1997
| by NINA JASINSKI, Business development dir
Independent sales promotion agency Triangle Communications is to
launch a direct-marketing division in response to growing client demand
for tactical campaigns to be integrated across all forms of media.
30 Jan 1997
| by K NAYLOR, Brighton
I am so sympathetic with Paul Hawkes s despair over untargeted mail
(Marketing, January 16) - the problem is, it s not always possible to
carry out even the most rudimentary targeting when you re dealing with
crap data! Or not dealing with enough data.
30 Jan 1997
| by ROBERT DWEK
Debate is raging on whether to keep telephone marketing in house or
to outsource it. Robert Dwek takes a look at both sides of the argument
and the commercial results.
24 Jan 1997
| by BERNARD INGHAM, who writes for the Expr
As one who (sparingly) uses a mobile phone in public places - I
would be handicapped without one - I irritate nearly one in three
people.
23 Jan 1997
| by PATRICK BARRETT
National Australia Bank Group (NAG) has appointed DMB&B Financial
to handle its pounds 20m through-the-line European account, which
includes advertising and direct marketing work on four separate bank
brands.
23 Jan 1997
| by PATRICK BARRETT
Mitsubishi Motors UK has appointed Edinburgh-based direct marketing
agency Navigator Responsive Advertising to handle its pounds 2m account.