10 Dec 2004
| by Joe Lepper
Campaign: Santa
Client: Ministry of Fun
PR team: In-house, Borkowski PR and Ciro Castaldo
Timescale: October-November 2004
Budget: £5,000
According to entertainment agency and Santa lookalike supplier Ministry of Fun, more department stores and shopping centres are axing their Christmas grottos ...
19 Nov 2004
that negative coverage has not stopped consumers buying M&S products. One agency executive, who handles PR for a ...
15 staff in the product press office and six for corporate and financial comms.
PR agencies ...
22 Oct 2004
| by Ian Hall
at four different agencies, he joined Countrywide Communications, where he spent five years (meeting his ...
24 Sep 2004
| by Ian Hall
Matt Wood's goatee has turned fag-ash grey and the agency at which he made his name, Joe Public...Wood founded Joe Public Relations, once one of the sharpest PR shops in town but an agency that suffered a torrid time after being merged into August. One Communications by parent NextFifteen last year. He walked just months after the deal and has now resurfaced as MD for Fishburn Hedges' new consumer ...
17 Sep 2004
| by Gidon Freeman, gidon.freeman@haynet.com
There is nothing to suggest that WPP's position in the PR market is anything like as dominant. And yet eyebrows are certain to be raised by news that - following this week's sale of US ad agency Grey Global - GCI Group is to be kept within the Sir Martin Sorrell family.
This gives WPP three of the top ...
17 Sep 2004
watchdogs such as the Food Standards Agency will continue to spill into the media.
Tartan Films admits ...
Marcotte
UK agencies: Bell Pottinger Public Affairs issues management, lobbying;
The Red Consultancy ...
10 Sep 2004
| by Donna Werbner
decided to relaunch the toys and hired PR agency Mason Williams to raise awareness about its new product ...
23 Jul 2004
The Red Consultancy managing director Mike Morgan has led the agency's McDonald's account for seven
23 Jul 2004
| by Joe Lepper
takeaway pizza firms. Cohn Wolfe was handed the brief and remains the firm's retained agency ...
09 Jul 2004
, Watching Paint Dry, was cast on UKTV Style's website and received over 200,000 hits.
'Agencies need ...
, and that requires confidence from the client and conviction (within the agency).'
A go-ahead attitude is essential ...
. And such competition has pitfalls. An overzealous agency may misjudge a given agenda, the stunt may backfire ...