Agencies are lining up to pitch for the creative task of raising
the UK popularity of Asahi Super Dry, Japan's biggest-selling beer.
McCann-Erickson Windsor, the incumbent on the 1 million account,
has been invited to repitch, joining a shortlist likely to include
agencies that already...
28 Sep 2001
| by MATTHEW COWEN
Birds Eye Wall's has hauled its Captain Birds Eye character out of
Lowe Lintas and handed the account for its fish fingers brand to the
rival roster agency HHCL 500,000 in the UK.
Birds Eye is understood to be planning a renewed pan-European push for
the character with the possibility...
28 Sep 2001
| by JENNY WATTS
PepsiCo-owned Quaker has put its agencies on alert following its
move to centralise its international advertising business into Omnicom.
The food giant shifted its Quaker brands at Foote Cone 3.7 million, with MediaVest UK handling the media
buying.
Banks Hoggins O'Shea/FCB is set to lose...
28 Sep 2001
Baxters, the premium food brand, has appointed MediaCom (Scotland)
as its media planning and buying agency. It will work across the
portfolio of Baxters products including soup, sauces, condiments,
pickles, jams and preserves. - General release.
28 Sep 2001
| by JENNY WATTS
St Luke's has unveiled its first television and cinema work for
Tilda to launch a new product, Rizazz. The campaign pokes fun at people
who try to keep up a pretence of being busy.
The spoof campaign aims to position Rizazz as an ideal product for busy
people who would like to eat good...
28 Sep 2001
| by IAN DARBY
Cadbury Fingers is launching a national TV campaign, which will be
backed by a 5 million spend.
Saatchi 21.9
million.
Sales were up 4.5 per cent in the year to October 2000 and the brand
leads the "special treat" biscuit category.
Dave Droga, the creative director of Saatchi...
28 Sep 2001
Campbell's is stepping up efforts to make its condensed soup range
a more potent competitor to other snack foods with new advertising
featuring common household objects and their alternative uses.
The magazine campaign, backed by a 1 million spend, is the first
work by Abbott Mead Vickers...
28 Sep 2001
| by IAN DARBY
Lions Sports Mixture, the chewy sweet brand, is unveiling its first
ad campaign since its launch in 1912.
The TV executions, through Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, back the national
launch of the brand. Lions Sports Mixture has previously only been
available in the north of England.
The...
28 Sep 2001
| by MATTHEW COWEN, matthew.cowen@haynet.com
For those young men still in their formative years in the 80s,
Cadbury's Flake advertising has a lot to answer for. As if spotty boys
of my generation weren't confused enough about the opposite sex, we were
invited to sit and watch gorgeous, sultry, full-lipped women lying back
and doing heavenly...
28 Sep 2001
| by PATRICK COLLISTER, the executive creative director of
ehsrealtime
Definition of a coward: someone who thinks with his legs.
There seem to be a lot of clients legging it at the moment. Running
scared.
And who can blame them? These are not good times. Human instinct says
survival is about keeping your damn head down. Lie low. Keep stumm. Yet
the...