28 Nov 1997
| by EMMA HALL
Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper has scooped Lemsip and Disprin, two of
Reckitt s biggest brands, both of which were previously handled
by BDDP GGT.
Electrolux has awarded media buying for its pounds 5.5 million
centralised white goods business to Zebra Media following a three-way
pitch against Mediapolis and Motive.
28 Nov 1997
| by HARRIET GREEN
Coca-Cola has hired St Luke s for a special project developing a
global brand that would sit alongside Classic Coke. The agency has been
asked to present Coca-Cola with a strategy that could form the starting
point for the development of a brand with a cultural reach as wide as
Coke s. Marketing
28 Nov 1997
| by JOHN OWEN
We congratulate all of the agencies and welcome Televest to this
new assignment. The words of Robert L. Wehling, senior vice-president
at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati last week, were the oddest
congratulation imaginable for Leo Burnett, Zenith Media and Grey. They
signified that Televest had just...
28 Nov 1997
| by NICK JOHNSON
Set among the dreaming spires of Oxford, Inspector Morse is back
wending his weary way through another murder mystery with a spot of
romance.
28 Nov 1997
| by EMMA HALL
Eclipse, the production company set up nearly five years ago by
Harry Rankin, the former managing director of Limelight, has taken on
three new directors, expanding its roster to five.
28 Nov 1997
| by EMMA HALL
If you want to criticise department stores, do it in Prague. That s
what Quiet Storm reasoned when it wanted to dramatise the difference
between Richard Branson s cosmetics and toiletries brand, Virgin Vie,
and the aggressive approach of traditional department store
salespeople.
28 Nov 1997
| by JIM DAVIES
The ubiquity of character licensing doesn t even occur to you until
you have children. You want to buy a babygro without the Teletubbies,
Winnie the Pooh or Postman Pat all over it? Forget it.
28 Nov 1997
| by ROONEY CARRUTHERS
Some people find it a doddle. Alan Tilby was a master at it; Terry
Lovelock, the guru. It s a full stop; a call to action; the summation of
the visual treat you ve just seen. For some clients, it s the be all and
end all ... and Larry and I hate doing it. The endline.
28 Nov 1997
| by MAIRI CLARK
Why is advertising on the tube so shockingly bad? With more than
270 stations (that s how boring it is, I ve had time to count them all)
and an almost inexhaustible number of options (cross-track, escalators,
light boxes, whole platforms, pillars, rafters, bins, floors,
tickets ... the list goes on)...