31 Dec 2000
Brewer Blackler has appointed new staff to deal with increased business
from clients such as Quaker and One2One. Those joining include Pip
Bowyer who moves from Interfocus, and Alex Kendall who joins from
NatWest.
31 Dec 2000
| by ANNA CLARKE
Barclays Bank has put back its announcement of the results of a
shake-up to its below-the-line agency roster list by another month.
A spokeswoman for the bank said it expected to announce the results in
early December. 'The project is on-going and in its final stages,' she
added....
31 Dec 2000
Some 14,000 responded to a Tiger Woods promotion in London's
Evening Standard to push the launch of the American Express Green
Card.
The promotion, through PR firm Hill & Knowlton, offered readers 2,000
tickets to see top golfer Woods play in London for the first time. The
Hyde Park event,...
31 Dec 2000
| by BHAVNA MISTRY
More than a quarter of firms raised their SP budgets over the third
quarter of this year against a general reining in of overall marketing
spend, according to the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising's
latest Bellwether report.
'SP spend is looking good, the main slowdown seems to...
31 Dec 2000
US bank First Union is offering online shopping to its 2.1 million
online account holders. ShopFirst (www.shopfirst.com), the shopping part
of the First Union site, allows users to buy goods from over 200
merchants. Customers can also earn rewards points from selected
merchants.
31 Dec 2000
Investment bank Chase JF has teamed up with Pacific Century
Cyberworks to launch an online securities trading service, called 2cube
(www.2cube.com).
The service allows users to trade Hong Kong-listed securities online,
via their PCs or mobile phones, access real time data on stock prices...
31 Dec 2000
Pacific Century CyberWorks' Internet Protocol Backbone Company, a
joint venture with Australia's leading telco Telstra, has raised a
USdollars 2 billion loan. The loan will be led by Chase Manhattan Bank
and Barclays Bank. It will be used to pay PCCW for the assets it
contributed to the venture.
31 Dec 2000
Indonesian ISP operator Dyviacom, which is listing on the Jakarta
stock exchange with a sale of 64 million shares, has said that it
expects to become profitable next year. The company, which is looking to
a big increase in subscriber numbers to drive it towards profitability,
is planning to...
31 Dec 2000
Financial content provider StockHouse has been signed up by MSN
Hotmail as one of the partners for its WebCourier newsletter in Asia.
Hotmail users can opt to receive and personalise the newsletter with
their own interests. StockHouse will offer financial coverage in
Chinese, focusing on Hong...
31 Dec 2000
Financial services companies have traditionally been among the most
enthusiastic commercial internet users. It makes sense: financial
products are intangible - there's no physical matter to shift about when
they're bought and sold. So it's practical to buy, sell and manage them
online....