19 Dec 1997
| by ANNA GRIFFITHS
HHCL s communications agency
roster to work on the development of a global product. The agency was
invited to work for Unilever s personal hygiene and beauty division
without a pitch after initial meetings with management. The assignment
is being described by Elida Faberge only as a brand development
project...
12 Dec 1997
| by MICHELE MARTIN
Greg Martin, one of the creative team behind Alka Seltzer s
award-winning life-boat commercial, is quitting Abbott Mead Vickers
BBDO to become a senior art director at Saatchi & Saatchi.
11 Dec 1997
| by DANNY ROGERS
Boots came top among 47 UK blue-chip companies in MORI s eighth
annual corporate social responsibility survey. Almost three-quarters of
the 2000 people interviewed considered Boots a firm which took its
responsibilities seriously .
05 Dec 1997
| by STEFANO HATFIELD
Agencies are always on a hiding to nothing in television
documentaries.
05 Dec 1997
| by JADE GARRETT
Jade Garrett chooses the new press campaign for Lynx from Bartle
Bogle Hegarty: Is nothing sacred? How dare they taint these innocent
characters with smut and innuendo. The people who devised these ads
clearly have depraved minds. Perfect for Loaded and FHM, however.
Written and art directed by Will...
04 Dec 1997
| by NEIL JONES, Director, TMD Carat
TDI has signed up the nicotine substitute brand, Nicorette, to
sponsor free travel on London s buses and tubes on New Year s Eve.
04 Dec 1997
| by RAYMOND SNODDY
Cosmopolitan has linked with Vision Express to launch a range of
eyewear as part of the title s brand extension programme.
04 Dec 1997
| by JULIAN LEE
You know the trauma of a new job: adjusting to a new route to work,
new colleagues and clients, new sandwich bars etc. Well, don t feel too
sorry for Chris Arnold, the new creative director at STH - which
apparently no longer stands for Sheard Thomson Harris.
28 Nov 1997
| by EMMA HALL
Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper has scooped Lemsip and Disprin, two of
Reckitt s biggest brands, both of which were previously handled
by BDDP GGT.
28 Nov 1997
| by JOHN OWEN
We congratulate all of the agencies and welcome Televest to this
new assignment. The words of Robert L. Wehling, senior vice-president
at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati last week, were the oddest
congratulation imaginable for Leo Burnett, Zenith Media and Grey. They
signified that Televest had just...