19 Dec 1997
| by EMMA HALL
Abbey National is hijacking every advertising space in the
Independent for a day and launching a major TV campaign as part of a
pounds 10 million repositioning through Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper and TMD
Carat.
19 Dec 1997
| by KAREN YATES
The Nationwide Building Society has called for a more powerful
Advertising Standards Authority in a plea to the Government to tighten
rules on financial ads. Nationwide says the ASA is impotent as it cannot
punish offenders and allows suspect ads to run while being investigated.
The indications are...
19 Dec 1997
| by KAREN YATES
Shares in the newly demerged Cordiant Communications Group and
Saatchi & Saatchi received a cool welcome on the Stock Exchange on
Monday, with prices barely moving in a slow start to trading.
19 Dec 1997
| by JOHN OWEN
Campaign unveils its first new-business sin bin this week - a
selection of agencies which overclaimed the billings on certain accounts
and, as a consequence, gained a higher-than-deserved position in last
year s business performance league.
19 Dec 1997
| by RICHARD COOK
The financial services agency, Camp Chipperfield Hill Murray, is
relaunching to target the entire services sector.
19 Dec 1997
| by JOHN OWEN
The difference between the industry s and the public s view of
advertising is exposed yet again by this month s People s Jury. While
those in the know wax lyrical about Wieden s marvellously
observed eagle and blind man films for Coca-Cola, the average man
and woman in the street - or, in this...
18 Dec 1997
| by AMANDA LUTCHFORD
Standard Life has appointed The Leith Agency to handle its
corporate advertising account, reportedly worth pounds 10m, which covers
branding work for its soon-to-launch banking and telesales
operations.
18 Dec 1997
| by DANNY ROGERS
The marketing push behind Goldfish, tracked during the summer as
the UK s fastest-growing credit card, has been voted the best direct
marketing campaign of the year.
18 Dec 1997
| by DANNY ROGERS
Alliance & Leicester has signed up five retail partners to its
money-back credit card scheme, in a renewed attack on the pounds 48bn
credit card market.
18 Dec 1997
| by JEREMY BULLMORE
Alan Davies extols stress-free banking at Abbey National in the
bank s pounds 10m national television campaign, which launches on Boxing
Day. The star of BBC detective drama series Jonathan Creek will appear
in a series of executions created by Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper set to run
through the new year....