13 Dec 1996
IPC is poised to unveil an upmarket listings magazine, entitled Film and
TV Week, in a new twist to the competitive listings market.
13 Dec 1996
| by MICHELE MARTIN
Ben Langdon, chief executive of McCann-Erickson, has asked the agency s
60-strong board to resign as part of a restructuring programme to turn
the company into a total communications agency.
13 Dec 1996
Two directors have left RSA Films to join Jo Godman, the company s
former managing director, in a rival production company start-up.
13 Dec 1996
| by EMMA HALL
James Best, the chairman of BMP DDB, is to take over the chairmanship of
the Advertising Association from Winston Fletcher, the chairman of
Bozell UK, who has held the AA post for more than four years.
13 Dec 1996
Kelly Weedon Shute has won the pounds 5 million Fidelity Investments
account after a pitch against Mustoe Merriman Herring Levy and five
financial advertising agencies for the world s largest investment
management company. Kelly Wheedon Shute won the business on the strength
of its creative work, designed...
13 Dec 1996
| by EMMA HALL
Barker and Ralston has held on to the pounds 3 million Beck s beer
account after a fiercely competitive pitch against two fellow Scottish
Courage roster agencies, M&C Saatchi and Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe.
13 Dec 1996
| by GORDON MACMILLAN
BT unveils a pounds 1.5 million hearts and minds advertising campaign
next week that focuses on the telecoms company s role as a caring
corporate citizen.
13 Dec 1996
Granada UK Broadcasting has poached Marc Sands from Howell Henry
Chaldecott Lury to be its first marketing director.
13 Dec 1996
FirstLight 2000, the consortium which has the rights to broadcast the
dawning of the first day in the new millennium, has joined forces with
CIA Medianetwork in a bid to find commercial partners for the venture.
13 Dec 1996
| by MICHELE MARTIN
The Minister for Road Safety has taken the unusual step of complaining
to the Advertising Standards Authority about an ad that appears to
celebrate joyriding.