19 Dec 1996
Best foot forward
The Advertising Association has announced that James Best, chairman of
BMP DDB, will become its new chairman from February 1. Best joined BMP
as a trainee planner in 1975 and was appointed to the board of DDB
Needham Worldwide in 1991.
Mail merger
Door ...
19 Dec 1996
MD Foods is to double the advertising spend on Lurpak butter to pounds
4.5m next year to back the launch of its first brand extension, Lurpak
Spreadable.
The Danish dairy company will screen two ads by BMP DDB featuring its
claymation star Douglas and the voice of actress Penelope Keith early ...
13 Dec 1996
| by EMMA HALL
James Best, the chairman of BMP DDB, is to take over the chairmanship of
the Advertising...James Best, the chairman of BMP DDB, is to take over the chairmanship of
the Advertising Association from Winston Fletcher, the chairman of
Bozell UK, who has held the AA post for more than four years.
The new chairman will have to prepare for the likelihood of a change of
government next ...
13 Dec 1996
s agency buildings were: 1. Simons Palmer; 2.
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO; 3. BMP DDB (tough one that, given...Justin Cernis of Mellors Reay was one of the eagle-eyed readers who
spotted that last week s agency buildings were: 1. Simons Palmer; 2.
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO; 3. BMP DDB (tough one that, given the tell-
tale logo).
This week we take a look at adfolk who have starred in their own ads
(this ...
13 Dec 1996
| by MICHELE MARTIN
-maker, Spike
Lee, who last week revealed he was opening a US ad agency.
Called Spike DDB, the shop will be a 50/50 equity venture between Lee
and the DDB Needham network, with Lee as hands-on creative ...
and planners. Only media buying will be handled by DDB, which
also plans to expand the office into a US ...
13 Dec 1996
commissioning a
soundtrack.
Where does the mid-90s craze for sticking a faux-tribal track over wide ...
13 Dec 1996
| by OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT
the party
into attempting equally negative advertising. Labour chiefs have asked
BMP DDB to produce ...
13 Dec 1996
| by KAREN YATES
agencies, J. Walter Thompson, which
handles Barclays Bank, and BMP DDB, which runs Barclaycard ...
13 Dec 1996
Burnett,
BMP DDB and WCRS - as the dinosaurs of the pack, were it not for the
fact that they all ...
13 Dec 1996
DDB s net
total, and added the same amount to that of Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters ...
.7 - 10.7
24 25 McCann-Erickson Russell Athletic 18.5 9.5 9.0
25 11 BMP DDB ...