20 Dec 1999
| by MediaWeek
Guardian Newspapers is setting up a brand research unit as part of a restructure of its marketing department. Alison Hall, head of planning and research, has been promoted to deputy marketing director under marketing director Stephen Palmer and will co-ordinate the setting up of the unit. The unit...
13 Dec 1999
| by RACHEL MINTER
Emap On Air is transforming its eight-station Big City Network into
a national consumer radio brand that will sit alongside the Kiss and
Magic brands in its portfolio.
10 Dec 1999
| by JULIETTE GARSIDE and SEBASTIAN VESPER i
German supermarket chain Lidl has hired Paradigm PR to handle its
UK PR as it prepares to ramp up its presence in the UK with a number of
new store openings set for the new year.
25 Nov 1999
| by PAUL WHITFIELD
Cadbury Schweppes is the company which best manages its brands and
communicates its marketing activity, according to a poll of City
analysts.
25 Nov 1999
| by MICHAEL EVAMY
It can be no coincidence that the group of design consultancies
showing the steepest growth in the past 18 months is dominated by those
that are making the most convincing noises about being brand
custodians , strategic partners and world players .
12 Nov 1999
| by LISA CAMPBELL
The Soil Association, the body that licenses organic and GM-free
food producers, is embarking on its first advertising campaign in a bid
to create an organic food brand.
12 Nov 1999
| by CLAIRE BEALE
The US media shop, Botway, might figure on any acquisitive agency s
shopping list. In a market where decent-sized media independents are
exceedingly thin on the ground, the New York-based Botway Group s client
list - which includes Bayer and Abbott Laboratories - would bring it to
the attention of many...
05 Nov 1999
| by JADE GARRETT
Mustoe Merriman Herring Levy is launching the second phase of its
branding campaign for Penguin Books.
28 Oct 1999
| by ALEXANDRA JARDINE
The National Farmers Union is developing a new brand to promote
British food, which it will support with an advertising and marketing
campaign worth several million pounds.
15 Oct 1999
| by LISA CAMPBELL
Airtours looks unlikely to embark on its long-awaited pounds 10
million brand-building campaign following an announcement this week that
it had put its relationship with the incumbent agency, Lowe-Howard
Spink, on hold.