19 Dec 1997
| by ANNA GRIFFITHS
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has lured the former WCRS board director,
Hugh Derrick, home after a three-year stint working on the US West Coast
to run its high-profile Volvo account.
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 ANNA GRIFFITHS
Universal McCann has restructured into five separate business units
as it seeks to maintain services to its existing client base while
aggressively seeking new business next year.
19 Dec 1997
| by EMMA HALL
BBC Magazines has been forced to close its style magazine, Clothes
Show, which was struggling to compete in the aggressive young women s
fashion magazine sector.
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.
19 Dec 1997
| by OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT
Mellors Reay s roster this summer.
The ATW group has ridden to the rescue of Marshalls Advertising,
whose holding company went into receivership earlier this month
(Campaign, 5 December).
Initiative Media has moved to shore up its management team after
the shock resignation of its chief executive, Phil Georgiadis, last
month, by promoting Tony Manwaring and Roy Jeans to two senior
positions.
19 Dec 1997
| by KAREN YATES
J. Walter Thompson has poached the CIA Medianetwork vice-chairman,
Marco Rimini, to fill the newly created post of director of strategy and
development.
Banks Hoggins O Shea has scooped the pounds 4.5 million advertising
task to position Waitrose as the top supermarket for value and
quality.