19 Dec 1997
| by CAROLINE MARSHALL
Budweiser, one of the official sponsors of the World Cup, has
struck a sponsorship deal across News International s newspaper titles
after it failed to secure a tie-up with ITV s World Cup coverage.
19 Dec 1997
| by ANNA GRIFFITHS
The life assurance company, Equitable Life, has scored an
advertising first by securing a fully funded programming deal with
Channel 4 for the first three weeks of the new year.
19 Dec 1997
| by ANNA GRIFFITHS
HHCL s communications agency
roster to work on the development of a global product. The agency was
invited to work for Unilever s personal hygiene and beauty division
without a pitch after initial meetings with management. The assignment
is being described by Elida Faberge only as a brand development
project...
19 Dec 1997
| by EMMA HALL
Abbey National is hijacking every advertising space in the
Independent for a day and launching a major TV campaign as part of a
pounds 10 million repositioning through Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper and TMD
Carat.
19 Dec 1997
| by KAREN YATES
John West is set to return to television advertising after six
years following the appointment of Leo Burnett to its pounds 2 million
full-service account.
The ATW group has ridden to the rescue of Marshalls Advertising,
whose holding company went into receivership earlier this month
(Campaign, 5 December).
19 Dec 1997
| by MAIRI CLARK
Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters has created a pounds 5 million campaign
for Daewoo, which breaks on Christmas Eve.
19 Dec 1997
| by EMMA HALL
DMB&B has created an alternative anti-drink-drive ad to run
alongside its official Department of Transport Christmas campaign.
19 Dec 1997
| by JOHN OWEN
The Mediterranean s most sprightly pensioners reappear in the
latest burst of Olivio advertising through Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
19 Dec 1997
| by RICHARD COOK
Consider this: in the summer of 1990, according to unprompted
brand-awareness indicators, the three best remembered marques in the UK
were Mars, Coca-Cola and National Power. The first two were harvesting
the fruits of decades of big-spending ad campaigns. And, because it was
the summer of a World Cup,...