16 Nov 2004
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Joe Staples, a copywriter at Grey in London, is joining Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam to work on Nike.
16 Nov 2004
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - French Connection, which recently launched an advertising campaign that did not feature its logo, has warned that it expects to fall well short of predicted sales for the year because its winter collection has not attracted customers.
16 Nov 2004
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Mustoes has retained the £12m UK advertising account for Korean car marque Kia, after a benchmarking exercise.
16 Nov 2004
| by Staff,
LONDON - Antonio Fargas, the actor who played super-cool informant Huggy Bear in the 1970's show 'Starsky & Hutch', is to join this year's 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' on ITV, with Ladbrokes already making former All Saint Natalie Appleton the 3/1 favourite to win.
LONDON – US financial watchdog, the Securities & Exchange Commission, has accused Lord Black and a former colleague of defrauding Hollinger International of $85m (£45.9m) and using it as a 'personal piggy bank'.
16 Nov 2004
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Emap has seen pre-tax profit fall 4% to £68m over the first half of the year, as advertising revenues at its music division tumbled and with continuing difficulties at its French TV listings titles.
16 Nov 2004
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Jamelia, the British R'n'B star behind smash hits such as 'Thank You', has been signed by Reebok as the face for a European advertising campaign, in a deal reported to be worth £250,000.
16 Nov 2004
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Bartle Bogle Hegarty has been named as the agency of record for Smirnoff Ice in the US, but the global review of the brand's advertising account will continue, with a decision expected by the end of the year.
16 Nov 2004
| by Staff,
NEW YORK – Crispin Porter & Bogusky has resigned the Ikea advertising account for which it won the Grand Prix at the 2003's International Advertising Festival in Cannes for its 'lamp' film.
LONDON - The Barclay brothers have put former Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil in charge of the scandal-ridden Spectator magazine, with some believing his first task will be to sack editor Boris Johnson.