31 Jan 1997
| by KAREN YATES
Agencies and their clients are making more use of freelance market
researchers and planners...Agencies and their clients are making more use of freelance market
researchers and planners ...
are
facing heavier competition as agencies look to independent market
researchers or invest in their own research departments.
Roddy Glen, founder of the SRG qualitative research agency, told the
AQRP ...
31 Jan 1997
| by GORDON MACMILLAN
Agencies were this week seeking reassurances about the future of
millions of pounds worth...Agencies were this week seeking reassurances about the future of
millions of pounds worth ...
relaunch.
Agency sources in the UK anticipate that any change to advertising
arrangements ...
the change having any
implications for agencies at the moment.
...
31 Jan 1997
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
agencies to pitch....Britvic is considering centralising its pounds 15 million media
account and has lined up three agencies to pitch.
TMD Carat, BMP DDB and BBJ Media Services have all been approached to
contest the prestigious business, which involves buying across brands
such as Tango and Robinsons Squash. Pitches have ...
31 Jan 1997
| by CLAIRE BEALE
Michael Grade hands over the reins of Channel 4 at a time when the
company is in good shape, but his successor must continue his broad
interpretation of the channel s minority remit, the ad industry warned
this week.
31 Jan 1997
| by HARRIET GREEN
Like teenagers, mid-sized agencies reckon they re cool - but
everyone else knows better...Like teenagers, mid-sized agencies reckon they re cool - but
everyone else knows better ...
-sized
agencies have a grim future.
Mid-sized agencies are being beaten by bigger rivals. Last week, Howell ...
Vickers BBDO.
Pooling accounts within large agencies became trendy in 1994, after IBM
swapped 40 ...
31 Jan 1997
| by CHRIS CLARK
in the coffin of the independent,
mid-sized agency. The prevailing wisdom is that there is no future...nail in the coffin of the independent,
mid-sized agency. The prevailing wisdom is that there is no future for
such agencies caught between the rock of giant multinationals and the
hard place of the small independent shop. Not too controversial a thesis
given recent agency history worldwide ...
31 Jan 1997
| by GORDON MACMILLAN
Newsquest Media Group has stripped Amra, the regional newspaper
sales house, of the agency sales...Newsquest Media Group has stripped Amra, the regional newspaper
sales house, of the agency sales business for its recently acquired
Westminster Press operation.
Westminster Press, with billings of pounds 14 million, is thought to
account for as much as 30 per cent of the sales house s revenue ...
31 Jan 1997
| by GORDON MACMILLAN
less than two months after the agency
won the creative task....Media less than two months after the agency
won the creative task.
Media owner sources claim ...
, refused to comment on the
media buying appointment, but confirmed that the agency was working on
media ...
department.
Priscilla Rogan, currently the agency s press buying director, has been
promoted ...
31 Jan 1997
| by HARRIET GREEN
managing director in a move which finalises
the next generation of management for the Canary Wharf agency....Richard Pinder, Grey London s client services director, is joining
Ogilvy and Mather as deputy managing director in a move which finalises
the next generation of management for the Canary Wharf agency ...
s chief executive Europe, Middle East
and Africa, remains chairman of the London agency ...
31 Jan 1997
| by STEFANO HATFIELD
to make a remarkable emotional attack on
the agency s merger with Simons Palmer one week after endorsing...Trevor Beattie, the creative director of TBWA who walked out on
Monday, has broken his silence to make a remarkable emotional attack on
the agency s merger with Simons Palmer one week after endorsing ...
of this agency. I can either
stand and watch, or walk away with pride in the hope that people will
interpret ...