18 Dec 2000
LONDON (Brand Republic) - British Airways has left out its major European rivals from a shortlist of potential buyers for Go, its budget airline.
According to newspaper reports, BA drew up the shortlist from about 30 interested parties, but is understood to have ruled out main rivals such as Air France ...
18 Dec 2000
| by Claire Billings
with Pernod Ricard of France looks set to scoop the drinks portfolio....LONDON (Brand Republic) – The bidding for Seagram’s wine and spirits business could end today as Diageo’s joint 5.8bn bid with Pernod Ricard of France looks set to scoop the drinks portfolio.
This would extend Diageo’s lead in its field, which would be double the size of its closest rival Allied ...
18 Dec 2000
Vodafone, France Telecom-owned Orange, Hong Kong’s Hutchison Whampoa and Swedish mobile company Tele2 ...
12 Dec 2000
| by Louise Banbury
’s Telecinco and Germany’s Kirch. Under the planned agreement, each company, along with France’s TF1, would ...
07 Dec 2000
union members will keep their current entitlement to royalties earned for terrestrial-aired ads ...
06 Dec 2000
| by Claire Billings
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The suspension mirrors activity on the Paris Bourse exchange where shares in France Telecom-owned Wanadoo have ...
, in which France Telecom has a 22% holding. Wanadoo’s parent also owns mobile phone operator, Orange, which ...
05 Dec 2000
LONDON (Brand Republic) – Harrods is joining forces with UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB to develop an interactive TV programme that will allow subscribers to the broadcaster’s Open interactive platform to buy products from the luxury department store.
The first show will be aired on Sky One on Thursday (December ...
05 Dec 2000
| by Claire Billings
’s advertising revenue for the year as a whole clearly demonstrates the at mass audience, free-to-air television ...
02 Dec 2000
, France’s leading commercial TV station....LONDON (Brand Republic) - Vivendi Universal, the newly formed Paris-based global media group, plans to launch a sports channel to rival Eurosport after the expected sale of its 50.5% stake in Eurosport International to TF1, France’s leading commercial TV station.
Last week, the media group ...
30 Nov 2000
/Lehrer Productions, the company behind evening programme NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, which also airs on PBS.
The NY ...