CAMPAIGN DIARY:
19 Dec 1997 | by MAIRI CLARK
Have you found the rigours of the party season all too much? Well, we re pleased to announce that next year will be a little more sedate.
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The brief for the agency Christmas card is one of many things I haven t missed by being jobless this winter. You know, working with hackneyed old images trying to create something original and fresh while retaining many of the cosy, familiar values of a perfect traditional Christmas ...
Have you found the rigours of the party season all too much? Well, we re pleased to announce that next year will be a little more sedate.
PR people don t normally miss a trick, so one may conclude that the proliferation and significance of television must be the single most important factor in the PR boom we have seen in the UK. But that would be wrong.
I suppose it happens to most marketers at some time, but I wasn t expecting my own career to jump lanes perhaps until I reached my 40s.
Asda is hoping to snatch the contract to produce Manchester United s football strip from the sports manufacturer, Umbro. The supermarket chain s partner, George Davies, hopes to design the kit, with Archie Norman, the chairman of Asda, being brought in to make the kit or stock it in Asda stores. Manchester...
BA is restructuring its in-house communications team, putting greater emphasis on internal communications and media relations. It is also reviewing all 57 accounts held by PR agencies outside the UK.
The planned merger between the Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) and Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) is likely to result in the scrapping of the communications department at UBS London-based investment banking business.
Cereal market leader Kellogg has appointed its UK PR agency Hill and Knowlton to work right across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Burson-Marsteller has promoted its global healthcare practice chairman John Smith to European president and chief executive officer. Smith replaces Ferry de Bakker, who moves to the same position in B-M s Asia-Pacific region.
GEC Alsthom, the Anglo-French trains, turbines and telecommunications group, is looking for a financial PR agency ahead of its proposed pounds 4 billion flotation next spring.