LONDON - Fashion website Boo.com is facing the prospect of closure once more as Fashionmall.com, which rescued the site after it crashed, looks set to close it.
The media revelled in the news that McDonald's had failed in its attempt to ban McChina during a week which saw the big brands change their names, writes Jennifer Whitehead in this week's round-up of brand news.
Naked has won best media campaign of the year for its Selfridges "Toyko life" work at the Campaign Media Awards, held on 28 November. Simon Marquis, the chief executive of Zenith UK and chairman of the judges, said the Selfridges campaign "hit the spot with all the judges". The work also...
Four TV commercials produced by Soul for Uniqlo are to run in the Japanese fashion retailer's home market from the beginning of next month. The films will augment work produced by the company's Japanese agency, Thynos.
Ikea UK is offering to help consumers "win" Christmas with an irreverent campaign created by St Luke's. This will be one of the last campaigns created by St Luke's following Ikea UK's recent decision to take its 8 million account in-house. The agency's six-year relationship ends in February...
Jamie Oliver, the celebrity chef and star of the Sainsbury's TV campaign, is close to agreeing a new 1 million contract with the supermarket chain. The two-year deal is expected to be signed by the end of December despite reports that the ads, by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, are a turn-off to...
WH Smith has apologised to Geordies who are angry about its new commercial, by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, which depicts them as vulgar, messy-eating couch potatoes. The Independent Television Commission is investigating the complaints. - General release.
The RSPCA is allowing McDonald's to stamp takeaway cartons with its Freedom Food logo, which guarantees standards of animal welfare. The move was criticised by groups claiming some food may not have been produced humanely. - Mail on Sunday.
I may be stating the blindingly obvious here, but it seems as if Saatchi & Saatchi is going out of its way to whip up complaints about the poster campaign for Coco De Mer. It's not so much that the sex shop's ads purport to show the faces of men and women mid-orgasm, it's rather the details...
For the last decade, during the longest period of economic expansion in American history, the mantra of consumers has been: "Shop 'til you drop." Now, with a new reality setting in, the question is echoing from Wall Street to Main Street to Madison Avenue: if consumers stop shopping, how many...
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