LONDON - WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has pledged to sever all ties with Burma, after the company's inclusion on The Burma Campaign's latest 'dirty list' of firms operating in the country.
HAMPSHIRE: Ten local authorities in Hampshire have pooled their resources to mount a PR and advertising campaign aimed at boosting turnout in May's local elections. Turnout fell as low as 14 per cent in the last local election and Winchester City District Council CEO David Cowan said: 'We hope the campaign...
The Department of Health has appointed Media Reach Advertising to handle an anti-smoking campaign targeted at the Asian community. The agency, which specialises in targeting ethnic communities, won the account after a three-way pitch. The campaign begins at the end of May and runs...
Deputy director-general of the Advertising Association Lionel Stanbrook is leaving to join lobbying shop DLA Upstream, as managing director of public affairs next January.
Russia s Mir space station has appointed public affairs consultancy GPC International in a bid to explore corporate sponsorship and advertising opportunities on the station. The commercial opportunities range from advertising and promotion rights starting at nearly pounds 70,000, culminating with the...
The Welsh Assembly is to exceed the demands of the Neill committee into standards in public life by advertising publicly for special advisers to the Welsh Cabinet.
Derek Draper, who soared to national prominence a year ago by boasting of his relationships with Government ministers, has relaunched himself in the most hyperbolic of industries: marketing.
By the end of next week, the Davies committee, advising on the future funding of the BBC, should complete its deliberations. Its report to Culture Secretary Chris Smith will trigger a public debate lasting into the autumn about the licence fee and the spread of services it covers - after the present...
La Monnaie de Paris, France s state-owned mint, is seeking PR and advertising agencies to help revamp its image. The mint is keen to promote the jewellery and accessories it produces, as well as its coins. It has received written proposals from advertising and PR agencies jointly and is due to make...
The Government s decision to bring forward its ban on tobacco advertising to this December has much to commend it. This was an issue ad land was never going to win: the writing was on the wall for a decade. It s been noticeable that the industry s bright stars knew that and gave up fighting the inevitable.
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