McCann WorldGroup wins $40m mobile telecoms work
18 Dec 2002 | by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Dutch mobile telecoms brand Celtel has appointed Interpublic's McCann WorldGroup to its $40m pan-African account, after a four-way pitch.
LONDON - HHCL & Partners is behind a new television advertising campaign that will warn the 10m people cooking a turkey on Christmas Day to be mindful of hygiene and food safety while sipping the cooking sherry.
LONDON - Dutch mobile telecoms brand Celtel has appointed Interpublic's McCann WorldGroup to its $40m pan-African account, after a four-way pitch.
NEW YORK - Absolut, the Swedish vodka, has named Omnicom Group agency FitzGerald Communications for its interactive work in the US.
LONDON - Lord Bell, chairman of Chime Communications, has been told he will not be forced by bankers to sell any of the company's assets to bail the company out of financial trouble, after its shares fell as much as 74% last month.
Camelot has appointed ITN's public affairs director Mark Gallagher to lead its corporate PR, following a restructure of in-house communications.
Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch (A-B) is staging a UK consumer PR pitch for its Budweiser brand.
The Conservative Party has hired former Labour Party member Paul Baverstock in a bid to revamp its image.
Cicero Consulting is embroiled in a legal row with former director and founder Richard Elsen.
Weber Shandwick has disbanded its UK corporate team and made MD Tessa Curtis redundant.
Manchester-based Communique PR boss Paul Carroll has taken on the newly created role of CEO, promoting director Nathalie Bagnall to MD ahead of an ambitious expansion plan in the new year.