IPC Ignite names consumer PR head
30 Aug 2002 | by Claire Billings,
LONDON - IPC Ignite has poached Nicola Woods from the BBC to take on a new role heading, up its consumer PR operation where she will work across loaded and the NME.
BRAND WATCH - Ikea overtakes the Bible, no news on the Koran, Puma gets a reputation boost and Umbro realises it's wrong to name a brand after a Nazi poison gas used in the Holocaust, writes Jennifer Whitehead in this week's Brand Watch .
LONDON - IPC Ignite has poached Nicola Woods from the BBC to take on a new role heading, up its consumer PR operation where she will work across loaded and the NME.
LONDON - Married men and abandoned dogs are just a couple of the victims of shopping highlighted in Harvey Nichols' latest advertising campaign, created by BMP DDB.
LONDON - WPP Group is to acquire French creative agency Les Ouvriers du Paradis to strengthen its growing fourth advertising network Red Cell, which has been strongly tipped to acquire HHCL & Partners in London in recent weeks.
LONDON - Vodafone has said it has signed and completed an agreement to buy Vivendi Universal's 50% stake in the mobile internet service Vizzavi for £90.6m in cash.
NEW YORK - With more than a tug of the forelock to the competition, Rolling Stone is back with its first issue under new editor, FHM alumnus Ed Needham, who has steered the former king of rock and roll mags into familiar waters, writes Eleanor Trickett .
LONDON - Gerry Robinson, the former chairman of Granada before it was split in two to form Compass and Granada Media, is to step down from the board of the ITV company.
LONDON - Leagas Delaney has unveiled the first global advertising campaign for Pilsner Urquell since SABMiller announced it was planning a £50m push for the Czech beer brand.
LONDON - ITV executives have brought some much needed cheer to the advertising market by saying that revenues for October were likely to show a rise of about 6%.
Originally published in Business Superbrands 2002. The book reviews the UK's strongest business-to-business brands as judged by the independent Business Superbrands Council.