Gameplay shares jump on strong growth
22 Dec 2000
Online games retailer Gameplay reported strong year-on-year sales growth yesterday, prompting its share price to leap by 11.5% this morning.
Current Wimbledon and US Open champion Venus Williams has signed what is reportedly a 27m endorsement deal with sportswear manufacturer Reebok, a record figure for a female athlete.
Online games retailer Gameplay reported strong year-on-year sales growth yesterday, prompting its share price to leap by 11.5% this morning.
Sir Richard Branson is to delay his decision on legal action against the National Lottery Commission, after losing his fight to run the National Lottery.
Scottish Radio Holdings has confirmed that it is in talks with a potential buyer, widely believed to include Scottish Media Group.
Cable operator NTL has re-entered the bidding war for the pay-per-view TV rights to Premiership football matches, after abandoning its 328m bid earlier this year.
The People s Lottery s marketing plan was outshone by Camelot s, according to the National Lottery Commission, which last night handed the fiercely contested licence to incumbent Camelot.
Channel 4 has secured a pounds 3.5m sponsorship renewal deal with Nescafe for Friends. It will start with the sponsorship of the new Friends series, being premiered in January on Channel 4 s new digital channel E4.
Corinthian has awarded the pounds 2m creative business for its PowerPodz MicroStars chocolate footballers to Doner Cardwell Hawkins. The agency will develop TV and press campaigns to launch the product. MBS will handle media for the February launch.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, the US theme park and cruise line division, has increased its TV budget by almost 20% for its 2001 campaign, which will be its longest ever, running for 21 weeks.
Bayer is launching a pounds 1.2m TV campaign through Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO to promote thrush remedy Canesten Once. The ad, which breaks on Boxing Day, shows a woman sleeping in a moonlit room, with the faint but unmistakable buzzing of a mosquito in the background. As it gets louder, the woman swats...