21 Dec 2000
| by JOANNA WITT
plans to launch the online brand in the UK....Lloyds TSB has axed eight UK marketing roles for Evolvebank, after announcing that it is abandoning plans to launch the online brand in the UK.
The move also sees agencies Saatchi s existing credit card operation.
The decision means the eight staff, including Evolvebank UK marketing director ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
15 Dec 2000
as online.
'Consumers demand a right to interact with a brand through any channel and we build solutions ...
14 Dec 2000
LONDON (Brand Republic) – The government is facing an annual bill of up to 350m to create the Post Office-based universal bank, because 10 high-street banks are reported to have refused to pay 125m a year towards running costs.
The Guardian reports that the banks are only prepared to pay half ...
14 Dec 2000
LONDON (Brand Republic) - Lloyds TSB has ditched plans to launch its online subsidiary Evolvebank in the UK and has chosen instead to link up with British Gas owner Centrica to launch an internet bank called Goldfish.
The bank will offer services over the phone as well as over the internet, in an effort ...
08 Dec 2000
| by JEREMY WHITE
at the US work in terms of moving into TV and extending the brand and moving beyond direct mail. The UK brand is particularly important and we wanted to partner with an agency for above-the-line work ...
of paper, with no big-branded creative presence that you have to reinterpret.
BCS will handle ...
07 Dec 2000
Zurich Financial Services, the world s third-largest insurer, has appointed Fi System Brand New...Zurich Financial Services, the world s third-largest insurer, has appointed Fi System Brand New Media to develop a new business-to-business web site for Zurich Strategic partnerships, which sells financial services to large corporate clients. The site is expected to launch in early 2001 and will include ...
07 Dec 2000
co-branded credit card with American Express (Marketing, November 9).
Customers will be sent a ...
with a number of other brands in the retail banking and credit card sectors.
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