28 Sep 2001
| by JENNY WATTS
PepsiCo-owned Quaker has put its agencies on alert following its
move to centralise its international advertising business into Omnicom.
The food giant shifted its Quaker brands at Foote Cone 3.7 million, with MediaVest UK handling the media
buying.
Banks Hoggins O'Shea/FCB is set to lose...
28 Sep 2001
Online advertising revenue fell nearly 8 per cent in the first half
of this year to 3.76 billion because of the softening economy,
according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. - Financial Times.
...
28 Sep 2001
| by CLAIRE BEALE, claire.beale@haynet.com
Ah ... my last column before I take maternity leave for a few
months, and still the messy Tempus saga that kept us all in column
inches through an incredibly quiet summer drags on.
Havas' decision to withdraw from the fray last week leaves WPP's 555p
per share offer as the sole bid on the...
28 Sep 2001
| by JOE LEPPER
The European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (EATA) has
taken on lobbying agency help in a bid to halt new laws that it believes
could devastate its sector.
The campaigning body for UK rehabilitation centres estimates that as
many as half of all rehab beds could be lost when...
28 Sep 2001
Gay Times, the monthly lifestyle magazine, is revamping its website
at the same time as Colin Richardson, editor of the print title, has
quit to pursue a freelance career.
The first of the changes to editorial content on gaytimes.co.uk is an
extensive advice section, taken from a book by...
28 Sep 2001
PUBLIC AFFAIRS: McGrigor Donald Public Policy, the public affairs
arm of Scottish law firm McGrigor Donald, has created an online research
and monitoring service for companies wanting information on political
and public life north of the border. The agency is still waiting for
feedback from Clydesdale ...
28 Sep 2001
Poulter Partners has hired Darren Hawkins, a former associate
director of J. Walter Thompson Manchester, as its planning director.
Hawkins, who joins from the interactive specialist Magnetic North, takes
over the role from Mark Buckle, who was appointed managing partner of
the Leeds shop last year.
...
28 Sep 2001
BBC ONLINE: Guy Dresser has been lured to the BBC from Sunday
Business. He will edit BBC Online's forthcoming, as yet unnamed,
business channel. Dresser is currently editor of e-business and
management at the Sunday title. The new venture will take a variety of
stories from the BBC business unit.
...
28 Sep 2001
with its Universal Music Group. This year, the shopping cart was full
again, with mp3.com. Messier snapped up mp3.com for 372 million
and is poised to be a major player in online music delivery ...
28 Sep 2001
| by JOHN TYLEE
creative direction and
personality for the two-year-old shop set up to handle Sainsbury's local ...