28 Mar 1996
| by SUZANNE BIDLAKE
Camelot is offering ten companies the chance to become exclusive
marketing partners with the National Lottery.
28 Mar 1996
| by ANNA GRIFFITHS
Cadbury this week signed the biggest sponsorship agreement in British
television history, spending pounds 10m to link its brands to Coronation
Street, in a deal revealed exclusively by Marketing in January.
28 Mar 1996
Radio Joint Audit Research (Rajar) has returned to its pre-printed diary
methodology, which it will use from April 1996 until September 1998. It
will aim to introduce a new method of listing in two years time.
28 Mar 1996
Cosmetics giant Rimmel makes its TV debut next week in a pounds 2.5m
campaign which takes it away from its traditional marketing mainstay of
women s magazines.
28 Mar 1996
A catwalk catfight will be the theme for a new international Pizza Hut
campaign, where supermodels Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista
squabble over a Stuffed Crust pizza.
28 Mar 1996
Richard Hytner, former chief executive of Lintas, and Paul Edwards, the
agency s former head of planning, are both joining strategic marketing
consultancy The Henley Centre. Hytner will be chief executive and
Edwards will be deputy chairman.
28 Mar 1996
| by SHARON MARSHALL
BT is changing marketing direction in an assault on rival firms and will
build future campaigns for home phone users around simplified, single
messages.
28 Mar 1996
The Sunday Business has set its launch date for April 21 and has
earmarked pounds 3m for the initial launch.
28 Mar 1996
Children on the top decks of buses are to be enticed into joining kids
cable and satellite station The Children s Channel by characters from TV
shows apparently sitting on city centre bus shelters. Life-sized cut-
outs of Cynthia and Brittany from the programme Sweet Valley High will
be the first to...
28 Mar 1996
Sainsbury s is the first food retailer to set up its own satellite TV
channel to beam company information into its 362 stores.