18 Dec 2002
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - The Evening Standard has poached The Independent's Claudette Laws to be the new head...month along with five other members of the Standard's advertising sales team, including head of client ...
number of women's title's at IPC Southbank.
She joins the Standard as speculation mounts over ...
18 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - The DMA has finally launched its long-awaited certification process for the business data...The Business List Audit scheme has been a year in the making and comes in response to calls from the data industry -- including clients, brokers and list owners -- for a standard to ensure quality in business lists, and give accredited companies a competitive advantage over rivals.
The scheme allows ...
13 Dec 2002
| by JEREMY LEE
The Independent Television Commission has upheld complaints that Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper's fire safety campaign for the Department of Transport is too frightening for children.
13 Dec 2002
| by JENNY WATTS
J. Walter Thompson is seeking a creative director for its London office following the decision...working there.
Simon Bolton, the chief executive of JWT London, is in discussions with a number ...
13 Dec 2002
| by HOLLY WILLIAMS
Bagnall replaces Carroll in the MD post on 1 January as the group prepares to launch an office in London and recruit to boost the team.
Communique's London arm is due to be based in Burson ...
and externally to hire a head for the London base.
Communique - which was founded by Carroll in 1986 - handles ...
13 Dec 2002
| by ADAM HILL
Transport for London has abandoned its external search for a permanent head of comms for congestion...looking internally to fill the post.
Front runners had included London Borough of Camden head of press ...
to fill the street management head of comms post comes as plans to merge TfL with London Underground ...
09 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Speculation that Evening Standard editor Veronica Wadley's job is under threat...Reports suggest that Lord Rothermere, proprietor of Evening Standard publisher Associated Newspaper, has held talks with Observer editor Roger Alton about the post, as the paper's circulation fell to 418,045 from 439,098 last month.
In the national daily tabloid sector, the new upmarket Daily Mirror ...
09 Dec 2002
| by Gordon MacMillan,
as the editor of the London Evening Standard as Lord Rothermere prepares to axe Veronica Wadley....to reveal that the Evening Standard's circulation has fallen to 390,204, down 10% year on year.
Wadley was responsible for closing the Standard's six-year-old weekly listings magazine Hot Tickets and replacing ...
with London mayor Ken Livingstone and has been accused of relegating London issues in the paper, while her ...
06 Dec 2002
| by ANDY ALLEN
London. The number and standard of entries at the regional Cream awards held the same night led IPR ...
'for the increasingly vibrant and confident region, Londoners may have felt a sneaking admiration for the chutzpah involved. There may have been a few snorts of derision, too, among those who see London as the only place ...
06 Dec 2002
| by MARK SWENEY
TBWA/London has yielded the creative account for Le Creuset, the French cookware manufacturer...The Le Creuset account has a heritage of providing agencies with a chance to flex their creative talent and in the past has picked up a number of awards. In last year's D AD awards, TBWA/London picked up a silver Pencil for typography for its Le Creuset press advertising campaign.
The four ...