Ogilvy & Mather has resigned the pounds 10 million pan-European
Hoover account in order to secure the Merloni-owned Indesit business
across Europe.
Unilever is scrapping 25,000 jobs in a pounds 3 billion global
restructuring operation. It said the move would allow it to invest
pounds 1 billion over five years in extra marketing for 400 of its top
brands. Most of the lost jobs will be in Europe and the US. General
release
25 Feb 2000
| by DOMINIC MILLS
Vicky Gillan, the brand director of Emap Active, chooses Lynx s
regional press ad.
25 Feb 2000
| by DAVID McCORMACK
Countrywide Porter Novelli has been appointed on six-figure fees to
handle all communications for CropGen, a new UK initiative which aims to
promote a more balanced debate about genetically modified (GM)
foods.
25 Feb 2000
| by JENNIFER WHITEHEAD
GCI London has won the pan-European account for Procter and
Gamble s haircare brand Pantene.
24 Feb 2000
| by PAUL WHITFIELD
Unilever is to plough an extra pounds 1bn into marketing over the
next five years and slash 25,000 jobs to reduce the gap in profits
growth between itself and arch-rivals Procter & Gamble and Danone.
24 Feb 2000
| by IMELDA MICHALCZYK And CORDELIA BRABBS
Merloni Domestic Appliances, which produces the Ariston and Indesit
brands, has completed its agency reshuffle and hired Ogilvy for the bulk
of its UK business. As a result, Ogilvy is dropping its Hoover ad
account.
24 Feb 2000
| by BEN ROSIER
Procter digital
cable platform, aims to discover how consumers use the medium.
24 Feb 2000
| by IAN DARBY
The Jigsaw Consortium, the consumer data initiative set up by
Unilever, Cadbury and Kimberly-Clark in 1997, is set to use additional
means of collecting data on customers, such as interactive television
and mobile phone technology.