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Ministers have clashed over the Government s plans to outlaw sports sponsorship by the tobacco industry.
The UK s top advertisers have challenged the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers to organise a boycott of selected ITV regions in an effort to drive down the spiralling television airtime inflation.
Britvic has appointed a director of carbonates to oversee the marketing of brands such as Pepsi and Tango. David Graham, the marketing and commercial director of the Whitbread-owned TGI Friday, will report to the marketing director, Andrew Marsden. - General release
Agencies are arranging to shoot more TV commercials overseas in a bid to thwart the boycott ordered by Equity, the actors union (Campaign, last week).
In October 1989, the European Union adopted the Television Without Frontiers directive with the purpose of ensuring the free movement of TV broadcasts throughout the community. After two- and-a-half years of discussions, beginning at the tail end of 1994, an updated version of the directive was agreed...
Nick South will leave his post as Paddy Ashdown s head of press and policy after the Liberal Democrats conference this week, to join the corporate team at Burson-Marsteller.
The Millennium Commission has narrowed its shortlist from seven to two agencies for its pounds 1 million PR account. Teams from Citigate Communications and Munro and Forster are now competing for the business. The account will involve designing a corporate identity and logo for the commission.
Steve Reardon, information director at the department of Social Security, has resigned. He is the fifth senior government press officer to leave since Labour came into government. Reardon, 50, has headed information at the DSS for nearly ten years, and has worked for the Government Information Service...
Essex county council s director of corporate communications, Keith Bradbrook, is to leave the council following a reorganisation which has resulted in his job being downgraded.
Biotechnology company Cortecs, which made headlines last week with its new oral drug for insulin, has hired Shandwick to handle its medical and financial PR. The account covers the UK, Europe and the US.
