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NEW YORK - Smith & Wesson, one of the world's most famous handgun makers, is looking to extend its brand into other areas and has hired a brand licensing agency to find new products to bear its name.
LONDON - Adam Crozier, the former head of the Football Association and former joint chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi, has been confirmed as the next chief executive of Royal Mail.
LONDON - IPC Media is raising the cover price and pagination of its two classic women's titles Women's Own and Woman from their first 2003 issues on January 6.
NEW YORK - Chase Carey, the former head of News Corporation's satellite empire Sky Global who resigned after Rupert Murdoch's $18bn (£11.4bn) bid for DirecTV failed, may return if the media baron makes a fresh offer for the US satellite TV firm.
LONDON - Sportswear brand Asics has launched its first television advertising in the UK with a campaign that shows a man roadtesting his sports shoes before deciding to buy them.
LONDON - With a retro feel, IPC Media's dance music magazine Muzik is turning up the heat on rival Emap's Mixmag, with three separate covers for February and a covermount CD.
LONDON - A spat has broken out between BBC World and CNBC over which financial news service has the most desirable audience, with CNBC being rapped in the process.
PARIS - Dentsu and Publicis Groupe are to launch an international sports marketing company in January, the first joint venture launched by the two since the formation of an alliance earlier this year.
NEW YORK - Beyonce Knowles, the lead singer of R&B band Destiny's Child, is to star in an advertising campaign for Pepsi, becoming the latest in a string of popstars to be associated with the soft drink brand.
LONDON - Shares in BSkyB were providing one bright spot for London media shares, trading up by around 5% this afternoon, after the news that it had been cleared of acting uncompetitively.
