NEWS: Four shops line up for COI career task in statutory rethink
23 Feb 1996 | by OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT
Four advertising agencies are lining up to compete for a pounds 5 million-a-year government account held since 1991 by GGT.
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Chrysler is moving back into the competitive UK car market after an absence of 14 years and has handed its incumbent agency, Delaney Fletcher Bozell, pounds 6 million worth of advertising for two new marques.
Four advertising agencies are lining up to compete for a pounds 5 million-a-year government account held since 1991 by GGT.
Bartle Bogle Hegarty has lost its pounds 11 million W. H. Smith business less than a year after a drastic rethink of how the agency ran the account following its sacking in December 1994 and its subsequent reappointment last March.
Optimedia and its sister creative shop, Publicis, are understood to have won the UK launch of a new multi-vitamin brand from Whitehall Laboratories, worth pounds 3 million.
Procter and Gamble s roster shops are bracing themselves for a period of austerity after news that the fmcg giant is to raid marketing budgets to fund a lower price strategy on some of its major brands.
M&C Saatchi has appointed the poster-buying specialist, Concord, to handle its outdoor media buying, already worth about pounds 5 million.
WCRS has appointed its first marketing director to develop and foster the agency brand.
DFS Furniture is understood to be talking to agencies about plans to expand beyond its Northern base and into the South of England.
Malcolm Venville, the star photographer turned commercials director, has walked out of the production company, Federation.
Patek Philippe, the Swiss watchmaker, has come to London to search for a global advertising agency for its dollars 10 million-plus account.