28 Sep 2001
Baxters, the premium food brand, has appointed MediaCom (Scotland)
as its media planning and buying agency. It will work across the
portfolio of Baxters products including soup, sauces, condiments,
pickles, jams and preserves. - General release.
...
28 Sep 2001
QinetiQ, a science and technology company that forms part of the
government department DERA, is looking for a direct marketing agency.
The body appointed Fallon to its creative account earlier this year.
...
28 Sep 2001
Telewest Communications has dropped Saatchi & Saatchi Vision as its
lead new-media agency and appointed Carlson to handle its new-media
task.
The agency saw off stiff competition from seven other new-media agencies
for the account, including AKQA, Agency.com, mdigital, Pixel Park ...
28 Sep 2001
| by CLARE CONLEY
OMD UK has been appointed by the super-club Gatecrasher as its
first strategic television planning and buying agency.
Gatecrasher, which has The Republic in Sheffield as its home venue, has
expanded its brand into worldwide club nights and merchandising. It is
seeking to up the ante against its ...
28 Sep 2001
| by LUCY AITKEN
no equivalent to demonstrate that times are tough across
all countries, media owners and agencies have had ...
-effective means of targeting.
Interestingly, while many media agency heads answering the questionnaire ...
Europe 2001's inclusion
of daypart data - will serve only to improve their reputation with
agencies ...
28 Sep 2001
| by JEREMY WHITE
agencies, has gone into liquidation.
An announcement was made to staff on Monday afternoon ...
bugger" website after its TV campaign, developed by the ad agency
TBWA/London, was banned ...
-media ad agency, Gluemedia, is thought to be in the
process of a management buy-out. A decision ...
28 Sep 2001
Marc Williamson, the copywriter credited with the idea of using a
red toy phone in the Direct Line insurance ads, has died aged 45 from a
brain tumour in Australia, where he had been freelancing for the past
five years. His agency career included spells at Valin Pollen and Midas
Direct.
...
28 Sep 2001
| by JOHN TYLEE
been shared between Rob Purdie and Dave Smith. He joined the
agency when it absorbed Clark & Taylor ...
-month search for a creative chief and
comes in the wake of extra assignments to the agency from Sainsbury ...
."
Gill, who will take charge of the agency's six teams, said: "I like the
idea of joining an agency ...
28 Sep 2001
| by MATTHEW COWEN
Birds Eye Wall's has hauled its Captain Birds Eye character out of
Lowe Lintas and handed the account for its fish fingers brand to the
rival roster agency HHCL 500,000 in the UK.
Birds Eye is understood to be planning a renewed pan-European push for
the character with the possibility of using ...
28 Sep 2001
| by JOHN TYLEE
group, Bowden won
acclaim for steadying the London agency after the Saatchi brothers left
six years ...
and in bringing
Jennifer Laing back to the agency as the chairman.
It was also his decision to appoint ...
months off before taking another job.
"I might join a media agency or a media independent," he ...