28 Mar 1997
| by OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT
The Conservatives are set to drop their New Labour. New Danger
slogan in a second rebuff by the party hierarchy for M&C Saatchi.
28 Mar 1997
| by GENERAL RELEASE, ADWEEK, SUNDAY EXPRESS
Bingo operators will be able to advertise on TV and radio from 19
April, after Parliament unexpectedly rushed through new gambling
deregulation measures covering casinos, betting shops and pools
operators last week. All advertising restrictions on bingo operators are
to be lifted, but betting shops...
28 Mar 1997
| by CAROLINE MARSHALL
Bartle Bogle Hegarty has lured Professor Luc Montagnier, the man
who discovered the Aids virus, to star in Time magazine s first European
ad campaign.
The RSPCA is experimenting with bus-side advertising in the run-up
to its fund-raising week, which begins on 21 April.
28 Mar 1997
| by MIKE WOOD, the media director of J. Wal
Penny Hughes chooses Lowe Howard-Spink s demon pies ad for Tesco
which ran in the Spectator: The campaign takes advantage of the
mounting pre-election fever and this execution, which parodies the
Conservative Party s demon eyes campaign, is particularly amusing. I
love the bloke s shiny cheeks...
28 Mar 1997
| by CHRIS ARNOLD
It s hard to pick my favourite piece of work because I have
two.
28 Mar 1997
Contrary to popular opinion, advertising does, in fact, have a
social conscience and many big-hearted adfolk did their bit for Comic
Relief the other week.
28 Mar 1997
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Fran Collingham has been appointed marketing and PR manager
at Redditch Council. She is presently press officer at Wychavon
Council.
28 Mar 1997
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Peter Smith, head of PR at the Association of Metropolitan
Authorities took early retirement last week. He leaves on the eve
of the merger of the AMA with the UK s three other authorities to
form the Local Government Association.
28 Mar 1997
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Focus on Health PR (March 7 1997). The British Chiropractic
Association have asked us to point out that Clark Coombes Drake
director Justin Clark has not worked for the Association since
October 1995. Clark now acts only on behalf of individual members
of the BCA only. The response figures and budgets...