22 Dec 2000
| by Claire Billings
and offline brands....LONDON (Brand Republic) – BMP DDB has been hired by The Guardian to handle advertising for the newspaper group’s online and offline brands.
BMP beat M 3m on advertising, is expected to significantly ...
. Their intuitive understanding of our brands and the demands placed upon them was impressive.”
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22 Dec 2000
LONDON (Brand Republic) - Online games retailer Gameplay reported strong year-on-year sales growth yesterday, prompting its share price to leap by 11.5% this morning.
The company said revenues for the half year ended January 31 were expected to exceed 40m in spite of current technology market trends ...
21 Dec 2000
LONDON (Brand Republic) - News and information company Reuters has scrapped plans for a retail version of its online brokerage system Instinet.
The company’s share price fell 76p to 11.92 yesterday ...
business, allowing third-party retail brokers to licence and use it under their own brand-names.
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21 Dec 2000
| by BEN ROSIER
for the company's restaurant brands, including Quaglino's, Sartoria, Le Pont de la Tour, Mezzo, Bluebird ...
for brands to have an online presence. We want to keep an informative and information-based web site that reflects the Conran brand.'
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21 Dec 2000
LONDON (Brand Republic) - Internet incubator NewMedia Spark has written off more than 45m from the value of its investments, because of the turmoil in the internet sector.
The company, which announced its interim results yesterday, now values its investments at 120m, a fall of 30%.
Most of the write ...
21 Dec 2000
| by BEN ROSIER
next year under the brand name Peeled, developed by Interbrand Newell and Sorrell, had aimed to provide ...
21 Dec 2000
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Not only trendy youth brands resort to these playful tactics. For its 20th anniversary, Absolut has created ...
20 Dec 2000
LONDON (Brand Republic) – The Body Shop has severed its contract with its internet partner, troubled Japanese internet investor Softbank, in a move which will bring the retailer’s website in-house.
The ethical cosmetics and toiletries retailer will pay 6m for Softbank’s 24% stake in the joint venture ...
20 Dec 2000
LONDON (Brand Republic) – Beenz.com, the internet currency trader, has become the latest online business to announce a restructuring, including job cuts and the closure of overseas offices, as a result of a downturn in online spending by its customers.
The company, which is also said to be seeking a ...
19 Dec 2000
LONDON (Brand Republic) – Sweden’s national telecoms carrier Telia is to appeal the Swedish government’s decision not to award the company a third-generation mobile licence.
Telia’s share price plunged 17% to 49 Swedish Krona ( 3.43) yesterday after the news that Telia was to become the first ...