28 Oct 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - UK holiday camp group Butlins is using a competition backed by a below-the-line campaign for a data-capture drive and brand awareness campaign.
18 Oct 2002
INTERNAL COMMS: Drugs firm Roche has hired tech shop Tornado Virtue as part of a drive to improve its internal comms. Work will include developing a webcast system to help create 'a more personal method of distributing monthly news updates', according to Roche MD John Melville.
18 Oct 2002
PHARMACEUTICAL: Consumer and pharmaceutical groups are to take part in a House of Commons debate on 21 Monday on the issue of media restrictions on prescription medicines. Those taking part include Trevor Jones, director general of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and Allan Asher,...
11 Oct 2002
| by MAJA PAWINSKA
Client: Specsavers Optical Group
PR Team: The Petersen Partnership and Total Sponsorship with Specsavers
and the Welsh Rugby Union
Campaign: Get Your Blinking Eyes Tested Ref
Timescale: July-August 2002
Budget: Part of retainer
08 Oct 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - OMD Europe, the Omnicom Group-owned media group, has been appointed to handle Sony's $500m (£320m) pan-European media buying account after a three-way pitch.
07 Oct 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - Nintendo is to spend $140m (£89m) promoting video games for its GameCube console in the run-up to Christmas, with particular emphasis on games for older players.
04 Oct 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - Gateway, the computer maker and retailer, has dumped its US advertising agency, Siltanen/Keehn Advertising, less than a week after its latest television advertising for the company broke.
04 Oct 2002
Drugs giant Pfizer has broken fresh ground in its conference lobbying strategy by giving over half of its exhibition stand to health charities.
04 Oct 2002
| by ED SHELTON
Drugs company Eli Lilly has bolstered its public affairs function by recruiting Helen Lord, British Airways government affairs manager, to a newly created Westminster focused role.
03 Oct 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - Nintendo is taking the console wars to the clubs in the run-up to Christmas, hiring marketing agency US Concepts to promote GameCube.