31 Dec 2000
You'll have seen the cards and the tinsel and the Christmas
puddings in the shops by now, so there's no doubt that 'the season for
giving' is here again. And we've become a more giving society, according
to Sue Adkins, a director of Business in the Community, which has
published a report finding...
31 Dec 2000
| by LISA AUSTEN-JONES
Over 75 per cent of consumers in the UK, US, Australia and Europe
believe that linking with a charitable cause makes a positive difference
to their buying behaviour.
The results, revealed in the new Profitable Partnerships report from
Business in the Community, show that 77 per cent of...
31 Dec 2000
| by BHAVNA MISTRY
Competing against some 186,000 other charities to raise funds is no
easy matter, but for Kate Burk, generating cash for a children's charity
is far easier than selling advertising space in magazines. She should
know - after she graduated from Cambridge with a medieval history
degree, she moved...
31 Dec 2000
Despite its name, this site is not all about Thai supermodels. It
is actually a cool lifestyle portal for young girls, featuring the usual
types of content: health, beauty, sex, horoscopes ... and models. All
part of growing up in Thailand. Nevertheless there is little doubt that
the models...
31 Dec 2000
Globalb2b2c.com is a community of interest aimed at all segments of
the protective solutions industry (medical, food, cleanroom, dental and
industrial sector equipment, in case you were wondering).
The idea is great, the reality less so when I logged on. I couldn't find
anywhere how to...
22 Dec 2000
The government’s Home Office has almost doubled its advertising spend in 2000 compared with last year.
22 Dec 2000
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Rail Group has failed in its bid to take over the east coast mainline between London and Edinburgh.
21 Dec 2000
Bayer is launching a pounds 1.2m TV campaign through Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO to promote thrush remedy Canesten Once. The ad, which breaks on Boxing Day, shows a woman sleeping in a moonlit room, with the faint but unmistakable buzzing of a mosquito in the background. As it gets louder, the woman swats...
21 Dec 2000
Superdrug.com, the web site of the Kingfisher-owned health and beauty retailer, has handed its home delivery service business to online fulfilment specialist M-box.
21 Dec 2000
| by MARK KLEINMAN
'As the Millennium Dome opened its doors to the public this week, its corporate sponsors were among those waiting eagerly for the country's reaction.' So wrote Marketing in its first issue of the year. As 2000 draws to a close, do we really know what that reaction has been?