16 Dec 1999
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
The Alliance & Leicester is trawling for a media agency to help it
develop a more effective communications process.
16 Dec 1999
| by STEPHEN CHANDLER, an account director a
We ll give a bottle of champagne to the first randomly selected
entry correctly identifying the company below. It has an advertisement
within the appointments section of this week s Marketing. Fax your
answers to 0171 413 4504.
13 Dec 1999
| by GREG HUGHES
An e-commerce magazine launches this month as a controlled
circulation title, and will become a newsstand publication in
January.
10 Dec 1999
| by Jade Garrett
Ford Credit, the financial arm of the Ford Motor Company, has
appointed Ogilvy to its pan-European advertising account.
KPMG, the third largest of the Big Five accountancy firms, has
appointed HHCL & Partners to work on its brand positioning.
10 Dec 1999
| by JADE GARRETT
The Standard Life bank has handed its pounds 5 million advertising
business to the Scottish direct marketing agency, Carlina, without a
formal pitch.
10 Dec 1999
| by ALASDAIR REID
Flextech is to sell a 38 per cent stake in TV Travel Shop to
Barclays Private Equity for pounds 20 million. The deal values the
business at pounds 52.6 million. Barclays Private Equity is to pay
Flextech pounds 5 million of the total cost of its acquisition and
invest the remaining pounds 15 million...
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
The PR industry will enter the new millennium with increased status
and confidence following the overwhelming success this week of Text
100 s stock market listing.
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
Merchant bank NM Rothschild and Sons has been in talks with, among
others, Aviva Gershuny Roth, former corporate communications head at
utility company the Energy Group, about filling its corporate affairs
director vacancy. The bank confirmed the discussion, but said nothing
had been formalised. The...
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to review arrangements
for the distribution of price-sensitive company information. This could
lead to information being released first on commercial news wires rather
than the London Stock Exchange. The change would come when the exchange
transfers responsibility...