21 Aug 2003
| by Peter Simpson
The group has no historic links with Burma, but owns ad agency Bates Myanmar, a subsidiary of Cordiant Communications, which WPP finally bought last month.
Bates Myanmar works for foreign investors, including British American Tobacco, a long-standing target of the Burma Campaign.
WPP's inclusion ...
27 Sep 2002
| by GISELLE MILITANTE
The US International Development Agency has handed CAPRI the marcoms brief for its Micronutrient Operational Strategies and Technology's (MOST) programme, which aims to lessen global micronutrient deficiency ...
CAPRI and Grey to pitch for the business with four ad agencies, including Basic Advertising, Ogilvy ...
08 Feb 2002
Some of the other most challenging, and profitable, PR briefs this
year are likely to come from the Department of Health.
This week sees the DoH take charge of its own destiny, by turning its
back on the COI roster and creating its own bank of PR agencies to
handle high-profile campaigns in sensitive ...
02 Mar 2001
-smoking campaign targeted at the Asian community.
The agency, which specialises in targeting ethnic ...
.
The account is led by managing director Saad Saraf and involves all 19
of the agency's staff.
'The ...
, Health First,
in which the agency targeted the Afro-Caribbean community.
...
13 Oct 2000
| by BEN BOLD
Client: The Environment Agency...Client: The Environment Agency
PR Team: icas public relations, in-house and Circus ...
: Undisclosed
Flood Action Week marked the launch of the Environment Agency's second annual flood awareness ...
-ordinated by Circus, featured TV commercials for the first time for the agency.
Radio adverts were also used ...
06 Oct 2000
| by SHEETAL MEHTA
Deputy director-general of the Advertising Association Lionel Stanbrook is leaving to join lobbying shop DLA Upstream, as managing director of public affairs next January.
A DLA spokesman claimed Stanbrook's appointment demonstrates the agency's determination to respond to its client's demands ...
04 Aug 2000
| by GIDON FREEMAN
have been
on board reactivating the station for the past year. The Omnicom-owned
agency was hired...have been
on board reactivating the station for the past year. The Omnicom-owned
agency was hired ...
31 Mar 2000
| by BERNARD INGHAM
of communications at the TUC
Stress in PR agencies simply reflects what is happening in many white
collar ...
19 Nov 1999
| by RICHARD EDWARDS
will be to continue overseeing the process and to work
alongside Barnado s retained PR agency the Forster Company and
advertising agency BBH.
She said: There is a lot to do in terms of upping Barnado s image and,
in a ...
03 Sep 1999
| by SOPHIE BARKER
agencies.
The deal, reportedly worth pounds 10 million, means WPP now owns the
second and third ...
-depth discussions. The agency will come under the umbrella of WPP s
specialist communications division, which ...
, including rumours linking it to Ogilvy PR Worldwide (PR Week, 14
May) - now a sister agency within WPP ...