29 Jun 2001
| by JENNY WATTS
Partners BDDH has scooped the Gossard and Berlei bra accounts
following Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO's resignation of the Gossard business
two weeks ago.
The agency will work hand-in-hand with the PR company Yellow Door after
Brian Duffy, the Gossard client, cited a desire to combine the two...
29 Jun 2001
| by JEREMY WHITE
BFCS, which along with Rose Hackney Barber and the Paul Weiland
Film Company was one of the original six production companies to open in
London, has announced that it is to close down.
Partners Michael Seresin and Derek Coutts have taken the decision to
cease trading in mid-July after more...
29 Jun 2001
| by ANNA GRIFFITHS
Glaxo SmithKline is overhauling its global roster of creative
agencies for its consumer healthcare business and is planning to
introduce new contracts rewarding agencies on a performance-related
basis.
The healthcare giant will ask agencies from its existing roster to pitch
across its...
29 Jun 2001
| by IAN DARBY
Canon, the camera and printing giant, has appointed CIA to handle
its dollars 35 million pan-European media planning and buying
account.
The move will mean that CDP Media, a joint venture between CDP and
CIA-owner Tempus, will retain the pounds 8 million UK media account. CIA
triumphed...
29 Jun 2001
Mother has consolidated its place on the Campbell creative roster
after winning the pounds 5 million Batchelors Cup A Soup account.
Lowe Lintas lost the account in May following Unilever's sale of its
Batchelors brand to Campbell. The sale also saw the pounds 12 million
media account move...
29 Jun 2001
| by CLAIRE BEALE, claire.beale@haynet.com
Advertising, as Peter Mayle once said, attracts some funny
people.
There are a fair proportion of semi-competent dullards "who should have
taken up their natural places in the undemanding obscurity of the civil
service", but this is also a business reeling with real talent.
Mayle...
29 Jun 2001
| by IAN DARBY
AXA Sun Life Direct, the direct selling arm of the insurance giant
AXA Sun Life, is reviewing its pounds 10 million direct marketing
account.
The business is currently split between several agencies including Draft
Worldwide, TLG Marketing and Keith Barnes Associates. Around pounds 3...
Renault is dropping its familiar "size matters" campaign after
three years in favour of new advertising to launch its revamped Clio
that asks: "Lost your Va Va Voom?"
New commercials breaking nationally this Friday through Publicis are
aimed at getting more men to consider the Clio, which...
29 Jun 2001
This year's Campaign Poster Awards, which will take place on
Wednesday 10 October, have been expanded to embrace megasites in
recognition of the format's creative progress.
The category will be sponsored by Mega Profile and brings the total
number of awards to 24 this year.
The Poster...
29 Jun 2001
Naked Communications has picked up the marketing and communications
strategy account for the sports fans' portal Rivals.net.
Rivals.net, which is owned by the media company Chrysalis, has appointed
the agency to help develop its sponsorship and promotions partnerships
among media owners...