31 Dec 2000
You'll have seen the cards and the tinsel and the Christmas
puddings in the shops by now, so there's no doubt that 'the season for
giving' is here again. And we've become a more giving society, according
to Sue Adkins, a director of Business in the Community, which has
published a report finding...
31 Dec 2000
Scottish Courage has entered a two-year sector exclusive agreement
with Buy and Fly! Points are being offered in a series of trade and
consumer incentive and promotional campaigns across its portfolio of
beer brands in the UK. It is the 50th company to sign up. Autoglass is
also shortly releasing...
31 Dec 2000
Marketing Drive Worldwide has restructured its top tier in the UK
in a bid for international growth.
Managing director Graham King has been promoted to chief executive
officer of the London operation, with Rupert Postlethwaite and Alistair
Wolfendale taking on the roles of joint managing...
31 Dec 2000
| by BHAVNA MISTRY
When Interfocus boss Matthew Hooper first talked about taking on
the chair of the SPCA, his reluctance was evident: he has been witness
to the time and effort put in by Marketing Drive head Clive Mishon who
stood down from the chair this month. And the agency trade body is in
the process of...
31 Dec 2000
| by DAVID KILBURN
Can sales evangelism translate to e-commerce? Amway Japan believes
so and has launched a new web site via McCann Erickson to take its
upbeat direct selling messages to Japan's growing numbers of home
internet users, as well as its own distributors.
A subsidiary of one of the world's most...
21 Dec 2000
| by MARK KLEINMAN
The Direct Marketing Association is spearheading plans for an SMS preference service, in response to growing concerns over permission-based mobile phone marketing.
14 Dec 2000
One 2 One is reviewing its pounds 8m DM account after three years with WWAV Rapp Collins. The brand, which could be axed in the UK in favour of T-Mobile, undertakes a wide range of acquisition and retention activity through WWAV. It is not known whether WWAV will repitch for the business.
14 Dec 2000
Keywords Direct, the direct mail solutions business, has appointed Philip Brooks as managing director. Brooks will develop the firm's business strategy as it moves to accommodate the impact of new media on traditional mailing businesses. Keywords Direct offers a full range of DM services. David Gebbett,...
14 Dec 2000
| by MARK KLEINMAN
Callserve, the internet telephony facility provider, is highlighting the advantages of internet telephony by sending prospective customers a specially commissioned telephone skeleton in a museum-style display case.
11 Dec 2000
| by LEXIE GODDARD
Last week Jason Keane, European media manager of Real Media, pontificated that online direct marketing is the new ad space (Media Business, 4 December). The sector will explode over the next few years, he continued.