31 Dec 2000
Punch Retail is encouraging consumer trial of its drink brand Red
Bull with alternative spirits.
The on-trade push, through Angel Uplift Marketing, lasts until
mid-December. It offers special prices for double, specified spirits
combined with Red Bull for pounds 2.95 and pitchers priced...
31 Dec 2000
| by ANNA CLARKE
Posthouse Hotels is offering business travellers the chance to win
pounds 1million through its 80-property hotel chain.
The 'Win a Million' promotion lasts for eight weeks and is the second of
two Posthouse promotions this year, through Clarke Hooper Momentum
(CHM). It follows June's 'Check...
31 Dec 2000
Recruitment company Hunting Heads is launching what it claims is
the first online recruitment website aimed at the SP industry.
Huntingheads.co.uk offers SP and integrated marketing agencies a
directory of experienced full-time and freelance job seekers. Unlike the
company's off-line offering,...
31 Dec 2000
Truck manufacturer ERF has launched an employee incentive programme
through agency TLC Promotions & Incentives.
ERF appointed TLC in September to produce a high-perceived value booklet
that provided a variety of leisure-based incentives for its
employees.
The booklet, Free leisure...
31 Dec 2000
| by ANNA CLARKE
The British Advertising Gift Distributors Association (BAGDA) will
change its name to the Promotional Merchandise Trade Association
(PROMTA) in January to reflect its wider membership.
According to BAGDA chairman David Long, the association is no longer a
body that solely represents distributors,...
31 Dec 2000
The Campaign for Museums is launching a drive in the new year to
help museums and galleries compete in the corporate incentive market
against the leisure sector and theme parks.
It kicks off with a one-day conference on 25 January, hosted by The
British Museum. Competing with the Best:...
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 IAIN FERGUSON, president, APMA and CEO, marketing services
Europe at Euro RSCG Worldwide
The pace of change within the industry has been dazzling and it's
now a given that the pace will only increase both as a direct and an
indirect result of e-based commerce and the new velocity of
business.
The fragmentation of media and the difficulty traditional advertising
techniques...
31 Dec 2000
| by BHAVNA MISTRY
Competing against some 186,000 other charities to raise funds is no
easy matter, but for Kate Burk, generating cash for a children's charity
is far easier than selling advertising space in magazines. She should
know - after she graduated from Cambridge with a medieval history
degree, she moved...
31 Dec 2000
| by ANNA CLARKE
Teletext is kicking off its biggest ever promotion this month to
spearhead its relaunch and reach a new and wider audience. The
information service is ditching its 'clunky' analogue TV image and
branching out on to new platforms to compete with information services
on the internet and digital...