09 Dec 2005
| by Claire Billings
Morgan Stanley is preparing to move its £20 million direct marketing account out of Tequila\London, having only appointed the agency in February this year.
09 Dec 2005
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
Total spending on advertising by the three main political parties rose from £9.7 million at the 2001 general election to £15 million during this year's campaign period.
09 Dec 2005
Aegis Group has hired Valerie Scoular as its group director of human resources. Scoular was previously the group human resources director at Barclays.
09 Dec 2005
Aviva, the company that owns the Norwich Union and RAC brands, has consolidated its £64 million media planning and buying account into OMD UK. OMD beat the Norwich Union incumbent, Brand Connection, the RAC incumbent, Vizeum, and Mediaedge:cia to win the account.
09 Dec 2005
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08 Dec 2005
| by by Sam Matthews
LONDON - MasterCard Europe has extended its Uefa sponsorship to include the Champions League 2006 to 2009 and Euro 2008.
08 Dec 2005
| by Tom Williams
Brunswick moved to the top of November’s Deal Watch table after a month in which M&A activity slackened after ‘merger Monday’ on October 31.
08 Dec 2005
Fund manager Barclays Global Investors has scrapped its most senior UK comms position after a shift in management to the US.
08 Dec 2005
Smithfield has been drafted in to handle what may become a contested bid for port operator PD Ports.
08 Dec 2005
| by Anthony Hilton
It is hard to know who will look more silly – Werner Seifert, the ex-Deutsche Boerse CEO threatening to publish a kiss and tell story of his attempted takeover of the London Stock Exchange, or the current management of Deutsche Boerse, who are trying to stop him.