31 Dec 2000
Boots has teamed up with the Tussauds Group to offer an Alton Towers
Gift Experience, through Mercier Gray. It is part of its gift experience
range and will be on sale over the Christmas period.
31 Dec 2000
High-street betting retailer Coral is aiming to raise awareness of
its EuroBet service with a six-figure campaign capitalising on the
excitement surrounding this year's Rugby League Cup.
The multi-disciplined programme kicked off last month with the help of
record English try scorer Martin...
31 Dec 2000
Some 14,000 responded to a Tiger Woods promotion in London's
Evening Standard to push the launch of the American Express Green
Card.
The promotion, through PR firm Hill & Knowlton, offered readers 2,000
tickets to see top golfer Woods play in London for the first time. The
Hyde Park event,...
31 Dec 2000
After a string of successful Star Wars promotions, Walkers is
aiming to boost its playground appeal further with licensing activity
linked to the Pokemon craze.
The snack food giant, which has secured the successful licence from
Nintendo, says Pokemon-linked campaigns will kick off in 2001,...
31 Dec 2000
| by NICK CUNNINGHAM, director, Dynamo,
Third-party links with charities in the cereal sector need to be
well matched, and incentives need to be highly appealing. Kellogg's
appears to have done just that with its CD promotion run in conjunction
with Childline.
The CDs feature tracks from leading artists such as Five and Westlife...
31 Dec 2000
BSkyB is launching a new multi-media TV channel, exclusively for
the financial services industry.
It has appointed Dynamo to develop and implement an on-going strategy
for the Financial Channel and its launch in summer 2001.
The channel will be available across a range of media including...
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 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...