Start-up InfoWide launches Internet management tool
20 Dec 1999 | by AIMEE GROVE
SAN JOSE: PR firms looking for a way to manage and automate financial relationships with clients now can do so online with a new Web-hosted, rent-on-demand service.
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NEW YORK: In the wake of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) barring members of the press from its media industry conference earlier this month, the debate over access to often sensitive financial information has flared up anew.
SAN JOSE: PR firms looking for a way to manage and automate financial relationships with clients now can do so online with a new Web-hosted, rent-on-demand service.
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AGENCY ACQUISITIONS
Poetry isn t the first thing that springs to mind when we think of The Financial Relations Board/BSMG s Ted Pincus - at least, until now.
CGU is talking to agencies about a pounds 5 million to pounds 10 million advertising account. The launch is code-named Project Seattle and is being overseen by Rod Butcher, senior marketing assistant. The main account is held by McCann-Erickson.
Bank of Scotland has retained Feather Brooksbank as its media agency, handing its entire pounds 10 million centralised media account to the Scottish shop.
Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, the incumbent agency on Abbey National, has picked up the pounds 10 million task of launching the company s new internet bank, code-named Aquarius. Euro RSCG won the account after a pitch against Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters and M&C Saatchi. General release
The comedian and actor, Alan Davies, embarks on a variety of strange therapies in Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper s latest advertising for Abbey National.
Abbey National has awarded the pounds 10m advertising account for its forthcoming internet bank, codenamed Aquarius, to Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper.