19 Dec 2003
Brand Republic wishes all of its readers a happy Christmas and a prosperous 2004. We'll be back on January 5. We leave you with your top 10 most read breaking news stories of 2003, starting with Mother and Naked winning Boots advertising and media accounts respectively.
19 Dec 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON – Five is continuing its move upmarket with plans to strengthen its science and history programming in a further move away from its roots of 'films, f***ing and football'.
LONDON - High-street retailer Boots has signed a deal with the company behind the Atkins diet range to distribute its low-carbohydrate foods in the UK.
19 Dec 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON – 'The Last Temptation of Christ' is the most complained about TV programme or film, triggering 1,554 complaints after it was shown on Channel 4 in 2001, the ITC has revealed in a final top 12 of complained-about TV as it prepares to shut its doors for the final time.
19 Dec 2003
| by Professor Angus Jenkinson and Branko Sain
How Ford turned StreetKa from a car into a celebrity. By Angus Jenkinson, Professor of Integrated Marketing and Branko Sain, Research Fellow in Integrated Marketing at Luton Business School.
18 Dec 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - As many as 50 parties have now declared an interest in buying Hollinger International's newspaper assets, which include the Daily Telegraph, but a decision on a sell-off may not come until the spring at the earliest.
18 Dec 2003
Something pretty weird has been happening to me. I think it's more of this late-youth regression. To be honest, it started a while ago but came to a head just recently and, well, it involves horses, writes Gordon MacMillan .
LONDON - With 570 complaints weighed against it, an ad for Mr Kipling Mince Pies, which shows a woman giving birth during a nativity play, has been pulled from television screens.
18 Dec 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - Future Publishing has appointed industry veteran Tony Mott as the new editor of its games magazine Edge, which it plans to back with increased distribution and international expansion in 2004.
18 Dec 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - The Daily Telegraph is bringing out a 16-page tabloid supplement on Saturday to mark the landing of the British probe Beagle 2, which is due to land on Mars on Boxing Day.