17 Dec 1999
| by JENNY WATTS
Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, the incumbent agency on Abbey National, has
picked up the pounds 10 million task of launching the company s new
internet bank, code-named Aquarius. Euro RSCG won the account after a
pitch against Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters and
M&C Saatchi. General release
16 Dec 1999
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
Carlton Communications chief executive Steven Cain has confirmed he
is to leave at the end of January as the company s merger with United
News s chief executive, will
take the role of chief executive in the enlarged group.
13 Dec 1999
| by COLIN GRIMSHAW
of the regional press carry classified
advertising online and two in three carry sponsorship....The first new-media survey conducted by the Newspaper Society has
revealed that three quarters of the regional press carry classified
advertising online and two in three carry sponsorship.
The analysis shows that regional press investment in the internet is
fairly new, with three quarters of sites ...
13 Dec 1999
| by COLIN GRIMSHAW
3.5
million, split between direct mail and press advertising which account
for 87 per cent ...
cent of spend.
The sum spent on press advertising amounted to pounds 437,904. It was
placed ...
13 Dec 1999
| by ALASDAIR REID
to worry about as Metro
continues to roll out?
Laura James, the head of press buying at New PHD ...
regional press too.
However, there are those who think the various Metro ad sales teams may
face ...
already there to spend more.
Tim Kirkman, the press buying director of Carat, says: Associated ...
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
Romeike Group, the UK s largest media monitoring company, has been
bought by Sifo Group of Sweden. The pounds 110 million deal creates the
world s largest media and market monitoring company. Romeike chairman
Ian Patterson is leaving and will be replaced by Hans Strand, chief
executive of Sifo subsidiary...
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
Shine Communications has been chosen to handle the launch and
ongoing PR for Worldpop.com, the UK internet start-up which has received
unprecedented financial backing. A global, 24-hour rolling pop news
magazine, the site will be launched in early 2000 across all media,
including internet, TV, radio,...
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
Scottish law firm McGrigor Donald has opened a lobbying arm to
service client needs arising from the work of the Scottish parliament.
McGrigor Donald Public Policy (MDPP) is headed by Adam Bruce, partner
and director of the firm s now defunct Scottish Parliament Group, which
launched in 1997 to offer...
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
ISP Freeserve has appointed Larkspur on a consumer brief following
a three-way pitch. Larkspur replaces Marbles PR, which resigned the
account in October (PR Week, 22 October) because it was considering
legal action against Freeserve business partner HFC Bankover its Marbles
credit card.
10 Dec 1999
| by JADE GARRETT
Trinity Mirror has hit back at accusations by the IPA that it is
delaying compensation to advertisers following the publisher s admission
that it posted inflated circulation figures on its Birmingham titles.
Trinity has set up an arbitration panel to investigate the claims which
the IPA has refused...