20 Dec 2001
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - Diageo will be forced to sell its Malibu rum brand after the US Federal Trade Commission approved the sale of Seagram's spirits and wine business to Diageo and Pernod Ricard.
20 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - A new poster campaign for the Against Breast Cancer charity has launched today, showing a photograph of two fingers shot and cropped to look like breasts.
18 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - The Walt Disney Company has confirmed that the former culture secretary Chris Smith is to advise the company on issues of media and communications policy.
17 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - BSkyB says it will "robustly" defend itself against the Office of Fair Trading's finding that it has acted anti-competitively in its digital television practices.
LONDON - The war of words in the Middle East will get a new outlet as state-run Egyptian television station Nile TV plans to begin broadcasting programmes in Hebrew aimed at Israelis.
LONDON - The US government is to begin a press, poster and internet advertising campaign offering rewards for information on specific Palestinians involved in the killings of Americans.
12 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - John Roberts, chief executive of Consignia, formerly the Post Office, has told MPs the company is set to cut up to 30,000 jobs in the next 18 months, representing 15% of the company's 200,000 workforce.
11 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - The way New Labour deals with the press is set to change as Tony Blair plans to rewrite the rules with a new anti-sleaze code that will govern future media announcements and control the power of spin doctors.
11 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Burson-Marsteller, the world's fourth-largest PR network, has named five new managing directors, compounding its reputation for a top-heavy management structure.
11 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - The BBC is set to announce the appointment of former Tory chief whip Lord Ryder of Wensum to the post of vice-chairman of the corporation, following the appointment of Labour-leaning Gavyn Davies as chairman in September.