01 Oct 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Open, the digital interactive channel due to launch later this
month, has signed up the Gadget...Open, the digital interactive channel due to launch later this
month, has signed up the Gadget Shop to join retailers including Argos,
Dixons, Next and WHSmith in its home shopping offering. The Gadget Shop
has 32 branches in the UK, selling gifts from lava lamps to giant
inflatable tulips.
...
04 Aug 2000
| by ED SHELTON
of the
basic Sky digital package. The programme, which begins on 6 September,
will feature news, personalities...The weekly news magazine for the grocery retail trade, The Grocer,
is moving into television with the production of a weekly 30 minute news
programme transmitting at 7 am each Wednesday morning as part of the
basic Sky digital package. The programme, which begins on 6 September,
will feature news ...
30 Apr 1999
| by JULIETTE GARSIDE
Interactive digital broadcaster Open has chosen Consolidated
Communications to handle consumer PR...Interactive digital broadcaster Open has chosen Consolidated
Communications to handle consumer PR for the launch of its digital
satellite TV service (PR Week, 26 March). Open s previous consumer
agency was Bell Pottinger Good Relations. Bell Pottinger Consultants and
Financial continue to handle ...
17 Aug 2001
TASTE OFF: Carlton is to close the Taste network - a TV and
internet joint venture with Sainsbury's - as the broadcaster becomes the
latest to reduce its new media exposure and scale back commercial online
partnerships. The move follows the recent decision by Granada to scale
back its ...
21 Jun 2001
LONDON - ITV Digital has hired Cake to handle the launch and ongoing consumer PR work for new pay...The station, which launches in August this year, will be available to terrestrial digital subscribers through what is currently the ON digital network, to be rebranded as ITV Digital next month. The account was awarded on the back of the work the agency has previously undertaken for the digital network ...
19 Sep 2003
SHOW: The contract magazine for upmarket retail chain Selfridges, called Show, has relaunched under editor Michael Jacovides. Produced by John Brown Citrus Publishing, Show has a print run of 300,000 and is published twice a year. A new flagship Selfridges store opened in Birmingham this month.
13 May 2005
| by Dan Bloch
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Primal is planning a two-month media relations blitz via regional press and broadcasters to raise ...
10 Jan 2003
Boots is to review its entire in-house media relations and financial communications structure...Boots group director of corporate affairs Alastair Eperon said: 'We're now looking at how we organise our corporate and financial media relations areas.'
While he stressed that the review ...
is considering the creation of a new director of media relations role, although Eperon remained tight-lipped over ...
19 Feb 1999
| by MARGO JAMES
Environment and Media Awards to hand a
very topical special awareness award to Iceland s chairman Malcolm...Environment and Media Awards to hand a
very topical special awareness award to Iceland s chairman Malcolm ...
trial without consent. A situation labelled by the
media quite rightly as a PR calamity.
While ...
, the media does not.
The Government has also underestimated the fleet footedness of lobbying
groups ...