Campaign articles from November 2001, page 4

Campaign archives from November 2001

Staples, the office supplies retailer.(hires RPM3)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Staples, the office supplies retailer, has appointed RPM3 to handle its 8 million [pounds sterling] advertising account. Staples' first TV brand advertising is expected to break in January 2002. Marketing

Opodo, the e-commerce travel venture.(hires Outrider)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Opodo, the e-commerce travel venture backed by nine major airlines, has hired Outrider to handle its online creative and media account, estimated to be worth 3 million [pounds sterling]. Marketing

Pearl & Dean, the cinema sales house.(Has won the UGC Cinemas sales contract)
November 16, 2001... Pearl & Dean, the cinema sales house owned by SMG, has won the UGC Cinemas sales contract. This increases its share of UK cinema advertising revenues to 43 per cent; the remaining balance is held by Carlton Screen Advertising. General release

Channel 4 is searching for a strategic investor.(will cut jobs)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Channel 4 is searching for a strategic investor for its commercial arm, 4 Ventures, which houses the loss-making pay-TV channels E4 and Film Four. The channel has announced that it will have to cut 80 jobs, resulting in 35 redundancies....

Kingston Interactive TV, the Hull-based company.(launches broadband television services)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Kingston Interactive TV, the Hull-based company owned by Kingston Communications, has launched video on demand and other broadband television services. Customers in Hull and east Yorkshire will have access to 60 digital channels, internet...

Emap growth begins to slow.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 16, 2001... The publishing group Emap has revealed sluggish growth in its first-half results statement and admitted that market conditions would remain "difficult" in the second half. Emap's business-to-business division, Emap Communications, and...

Ex-Duckworth Finn planner set to open qualitative agency.(The Nursery)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Chris Forrest, the former Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters planning director, is linking with two other senior figures from the research industry to set up a company with Guinness UDV as its biggest client. The qualitative research operation...

MediaCom wins met recruitment.(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... MediaCom has retained the media account for the Metropolitan Police and won the recruitment account from the incumbent, TMP Worldwide. The reappointment followed a pitch called as a part of a statutory review in June. Agencies were...

Cayenne launches debut Canon work with 1m [pounds sterling] Ixus drive.(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Canon is promoting its Ixus digital camera with a 1 million [pounds sterling] TV campaign in the run-up to Christmas. The campaign is the first work from the newly created Dentsu agency Cayenne, which took over the consumer Canon account...

Mother's nuns promote Magic TV.(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Exuberant singing nuns spread the joyous word throughout a hospital in Mother's national launch campaign for Emap's Magic TV. The launch of Magic in September was part of Emap's long-term strategy to develop its music brands across all...

Josephs hired by CHI as Liverpool Victoria campaign launches.(Danny Josephs, Clemmow Hornby Inge)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Clemmow Hornby Inge has poached Ogilvy & Mather's business director, Danny Josephs, to work on new business and account handling. Josephs, a Campaign face to watch this year, left TBWA GGT Simons Palmer for O&M in October 2000. He joins...

Saatchis stays with playful Archers theme.(Its latest TV campaign for the United Distillers & Vintners brand Archers Schnapps)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Saatchi & Saatchi is continuing with the "Come out to play" strategy for its latest TV campaign for the United Distillers & Vintners brand Archers Schnapps. "Pool" shows a woman sauntering past a row of men on her way to the pool bar....

Business performance league: 16 Nov.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 16, 2001... Rank Rank Agency Total Total Net this last billings billings billings week week gained lost gained (m...

Media performance league: 16 Nov.(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Rank Rank Agency Total Total Net this last billings billings billings week week gained lost gained (m...

FT and Economist top Ipsos reading survey.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 16, 2001... The Financial Times is at the top of the European opinion leaders' newspaper reading list, according to a new survey from Ipsos-RSL. The Economist took the number-one slot for weeklies. The survey asked the views and reading habits of...

Barrett Cernis moves Ame to cinemas.(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Advertising for Ame, the adult soft drink, is being extended into cinema for the first time in the history of the Britvic-owned brand. Barrett Cernis has produced the 60-second spot as part of an initiative to present the drink as...

IPA Awards publish new guide to make entry forms easier.(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Organisers of next year's IPA Effectiveness Awards are dropping the requirement on agencies to compile full case studies as part of an effort to rebuild declining interest in the competition. Instead, the newly published guide to entrants...

Glue kicks off e-mail campaign for second Banzai series on E4.(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Glue London has launched an e-mail campaign for E4's cult betting programme, Banzai, which asks users to identify celebrities' genitalia. The activity consists of three flash executions, each delivering a video clip from the new series...

23red unveils work for launch of World Rally Championship.(from Sony Computer Entertainment)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has hired 23red to promote the launch of its game, World Rally Championship, in the UK and Europe. Activity from 23red, which breaks this month, will include press advertising, event management,...

DFGW creates higher education work.(Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters is using Naomi Campbell and the footballer Steven Gerrard in a campaign to encourage young people to seek higher education. The Department for Education's "Aim higher" campaign targets careers such as...

Inferno lands brief for rainbow trust's debut TV campaign.(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Rainbow Trust, the children's charity, has appointed Inferno to develop its first TV advertising. The charity, which is centred on supporting families of children diagnosed as having life-threatening or terminal illnesses, wants to build...

Robson Green stars in MCBD's Thorntons ad.(Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy has created a 2 million [pounds sterling] TV campaign for Thorntons using the TV sex-symbol Robson Green to drive sales in the run-up to Christmas. The campaign breaks on national TV on 19 November and...

OMD claims a world first for 21-second ad for HMV's album.(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... OMD UK and HMV are claiming a world first with a 21-second ad in a pre-Christmas push for the Sony label Independiente and its band, So Solid Crew. The ad uses the time theme of So Solid Crew's number-one chart single 21 Seconds to...

Walsh Trott Chick Smith unveils missing persons spot.(TV ad for the National Missing Persons Helpline)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... The National Missing Persons Helpline launches its first TV commercial through Walsh Trott Chick Smith this week. The ad aims to raise awareness of the charity amid the growing number of organisations chasing private funding. The...

Will the new-look Barb offer better TV research? Barb told the industry that the new TV ratings system is on target for its 1 January launch. Is the industry buying it? (Forum).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Here's the charitable view. Upgrading your national TV audience measurement system is a huge task, and it would be a miracle if there weren't a few unforeseen glitches along the way. The uncharitable view is that this is absolutely typical....

Night and day: an expert's view: Ian Darby tuned in to night and day, ITV1's latest soap offering, which boasts a saucy omnibus. (Media).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... As a teenager I'd spend countless hours with friends discussing how good it would be to have a night-time X-rated version of Neighbours or Home & Away to feed our pubescent desires by showing us Kylie and Natalie and other Aussie stunners...

Media choice. (Media).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Laura James, the media director at PHD, applauds last week's national advertising campaign by Metro and its print run of 50,000 issues that featured blank advertising spaces. "In this marketplace, for a paper to take such a confident position...

The man from the third place emerges with allmodcomms: Patrick Morrison wants to help creatives make their ads powerful. (Headliner).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Patrick Morrison has all the right credentials to launch a creative, media agency. He's a surfer, wears cool T-shirts and still understands "youth" despite being 37. He's the sort of guy you see in all media agencies now, trying to steer...

The takeover saga that ended in a trio of Pyrrhic victories. (Perspective).(The WPP/Tempus affair)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... As the dust settles on the mess that is the WPP/Tempus affair, let's posit this question: can you have a contest in which all the protagonists experience a Pyrrhic victory? Ordinarily, I'd say such an idea was a contradiction in terms, but...

UK e-commerce is unprepared to let Brussels end the `cookie': Brussels is seeking to alter the law and threaten a new industry. (Spotlight On: Cookies).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... It really could have been a lot worse, obviously, if some translator deep in the bowels of the European Union labyrinth in Brussels had not translated the phrase "opt out" into the Italian equivalent of "opt in". And vice versa. In the...

I-recall: dotcom weekly awareness survey. (New Media).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Rank Site Agency/Media 1 AOL MWO/BBJ 2 0ne20ne Bartle Bogle Hegarty/Starcom Motive 3 Littlewoods IMP/Zed Media 4 Learndirect ...

Web watch: news sites. (New Media).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Rank Site Address Latest monthly page impressions ...

Lindner's desire for success leads him to D'Arcy: Luca Lindner's move from Red Cell to D'Arcy shocked his staff. (Newsmaker/Luca Lindner).(Red Cell Networks, D'Arcy Masius Benton and Bowles Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Luca Lindner's closest associates didn't know the secret that Red Cell's chief executive was carrying with him as he jetted between Europe and the US last week. Lindner's punishing schedule included finalising an acquisition in New York,...

On the campaign couch ... with JB. (Close-Up).(Jeremy Bullmore answers questions)(Brief Article)(Column)
November 16, 2001... Q I've been put in charge of organising the agency Christmas bash (surprisingly the budget is even higher than last year). The brief from my MD was two words. Be original. We're a top shop and have been there, done that and bought more than...

Dailies examine the market for finance spin-offs: the FT will cut funds pages while other papers expand finance. (Live Issue/Finance).(Daily Telegraph PLC, Mail on Sunday)(Financial Times Business Information Ltd.)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... There are two ways you can look at the Financial Times. On the one hand, you can see it quite clearly as a business-to-business daily for the City's financial markets, a trade paper that started doing a little bit of real world news and...

Live issue/Campbell-Ewald: Jeremy White investigates the return to Europe of the IPG shop Campbell-Ewald. (Close-Up).(Campbell-Ewald Co., Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... After nearly 20 years, Interpublic's Campbell-Ewald is making a return to the European market -- but only just. You feel that the agency would like to draw as little attention to the move as possible. According to the Michigan-based shop,...

Are we experiencing a golden age of advertising? A former Saatchis creative says we've never had it so good. What can he mean? (Opinion/Creativity).(advertising fun)(Column)
November 16, 2001... For the past ten years I have been disinclined to watch commercial television, because of the commercials. The breaks had become longer and the content as dull as it ever was. If I wanted to look at good commercials I'd look at reels. ...

As pressures rise, respect is at stake. (Opinion).(attitudes of clients and agencies)(Brief Article)(Column)
November 16, 2001... Compiling the "Ten most contentious pitches of 2001" list for Campaign's forthcoming Book of Lists has proved to be a rather depressing task. It involves revisiting a litany of examples of clients treating their current or potential agencies...

`Withabix' will be a tough act to follow. (Opinion).(Weetabix Ltd. selects Banks Hoggins O'Shea over Lowe Lintas and Partners Worldwide)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Lowe Lintas' work for Weetabix is the kind of advertising that most agencies aspire to create, yet at the end of last week, after a four-way pitch, the cereal company decided it should centralise its 30 million [pounds sterling] business into...

Protecting fixed-term workers' rights by EU directive is pointless. (Freelancers' Rights).(providing employee benefits for fixed-term contract staff)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Given the precarious state of the economy, I am rather surprised that an EU directive aimed at protecting fixed-term workers' rights (including freelance employees) will do precisely the opposite. For smaller agencies, the use of...

It's up to Jeremy how he uses his free time. (Jeremy Pemberton).
November 16, 2001... Campaign (26 October) says that Jeremy Pemberton"is expected to spend more time with his family...", on announcing his retirement How very authoritarian of you. Suppose he doesn't want to? What then? Let him decide. It's his family. ...

Fabulous method of suicidal advertising. (Creative Account Teams).
November 16, 2001... What a fabulous idea from Michael Moszynski (Campaign, letters, 2 November). First, let's make half the creative people in London redundant and then team account people with brilliant art directors who write average copy or, possibly,...

Spot the mistakes in an appeal for higher standards of English. (Apostrophes).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Attention to detail has always been an essential part of professional advertising. Designers have never been renowned for their spelling but somewhere along the line, the art director or client picked up errors. I am being driven mad by...

Shurely there musht be shome mishtake, Mish Munnahpenny! (DVLA AD).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... No exceptions, no excuses, no escape from those clampers -- not even for Mr Bond, eh (Campaign, 2 November). Surely that 1964 Aston Martin DB5 is tax-exempt? Parking in a bus lane on Westminster Bridge during daylight hours -- now that's...

Pay no road tax, 007, just pop down and Q at a local post office. (DVLA AD).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... The poster campaign for the DVLA bears the endline: "Pay your road tax" (Campaign, 2 November). However, the 1965 Aston Martin DB5 featured is tax-exempt. That is, although you have to display a current tax disc, it doesn't actually cost...

Cowen on ... VW Lupo. (Opinion).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Another week, another car ad about babies. Last time it was the Peugeot 406's meditation on paternity, now it's BMP DDB's latest work for the Volkswagen Lupo. And that's where the similarity ends. For whereas Peugeot's musings on birth are...

Stuart Elliott in America. (Opinion).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... In many ways, it was appropriate that WPP Group finally decided to go ahead with its pricey acquisition of Tempus Group around the time that Americans were voting on Election Day. The reason? The result of the on-again, off-again, on-again...

Ian McAllister: despite his hard reputation, McAllister's belief in the value of advertising makes him a dream client. (The Client Catalysts).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Ogilvy & Mather is a very lucky agency. In Ian McAllister, the chairman and managing director of Ford UK, it has a client who not only understands advertising but also believes in the role of his agency in keeping Ford at the front of the UK...

Lessons in Latino: Latin America is a volatile market for any business to enter. Lucy Aitken and Jim Edwards investigate what to consider when heading south. (Latin America).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Business practice in Latin America entails a new set of rules for those who have been used to European or American ways of working. First, some English is spoken in the region, but it is not good business practice to stumble along with the...

The hunt for ElDorado: Caroline Carlson goes behind the scenes at some of Latin America's biggest TV stations to explode common myths. (Latin America).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... On the face of it, the Latin American TV market is a dream. Almost every household has at least one TV set, which is switched on for an average of eight hours a day and watched actively for at least three. Local productions or productions...

Latin loves: Ramiro Agulla argues that Latin America's growing pains can offer a creative benefit. (Latin America).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Latin America faces growing pains, some shared with the rest of the world and some unique to itself. Despite these problems, it has enormous potential. To start with, Latin America has grown up politically. Let's not forget that...

The agency scene: David Byles from MindShare and Brian Crotty at Leo Burnett describe what's different about agency life in Latin America. (Latin America).
November 16, 2001... `A huge rollercoaster or a giant game of snakes and ladders' The most exciting thing about doing business in Latin America is that the region is a huge rollercoaster or a giant game of snakes and ladders, depending on which way you look...

Private View.(review of latest ad campaigns in the United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... This week, let's consider theft, or, as we advertising people prefer to put it, homage. Actually, first, let's reclaim the word homage from the screaming camp of "ommarj". Who came up with that? And does he call the office "loffease"? Look,...

Cheesey trick lacking plausible deniability. (Diary).(Clare Toolan)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... So much for the resourceful Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper graduates frantically learning their instruments for the Christmas concert in a few weeks (see last week's Diary). This must be proving so time-consuming that they've no room to do any...

A Ferrari is the fastest until you lose the keys. (Diary).(Michael Baulk of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... It's all very well owning a red Ferrari, but the trouble comes if you lose the keys, as Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO's chief executive, Michael Baulk, found. When he rose from a dinner last week, the keys to his shiny pride and joy were...

Which London shops gave best reception to an undercover Aussie? (Diary).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... All this information superhighway stuff is clearly endangering the commercial faculties of famous clients. Give some people a PC and, before you know it, they think they're the next Stephen Hawking, unravelling the mysteries of the...

Pick of the week. (Diary).(positive review of ad fromm BMP DDB)(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Francesca Newland thinks BMP DDB's new ad for VW's Lupo is brilliant: "The immediate tension in the spot gets the viewer hooked in the first second. It builds and builds but doesn't disappoint once it's revealed to be simply an ad for a small...

Turkey of the week. (Diary).
November 16, 2001... Francesca Newland thinks J. Walter Thompson' s Bailey's spot is cringey : "It is such a naff and unrealistic scenario. The woman describes her desired drink with inexplicably sultry body actions as there's too much noise in the bar. You can...

`Professional radicals' take a trance on HHCL. (Diary).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Readers may be interested to hear that HHCL & Partners is introducing stress-busting initiatives. As you might imagine from an agency whose mission statement is "professional radicals", HHCL hasn't taken the typical routes of scalp...

Surviving reality: the budding freesheet empire across Europe, as well as the conundrum about electronic news delivery, means these are trying times for Europe's top newspapers. (Top European Newspaper).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 16, 2001... The events of 11 September confirmed newspapers' place in society. Whereas endlessly repeated (and often badly edited) TV images could be too brutal to take in, the world turned to newspapers for information, comment and comfort. Suddenly,...

Top 100 European daily newspapers. (Top European Newspaper).
November 16, 2001... Top 100 DAILIES 2000 Title Publisher 1 Bild Axel Springer Verlag 2 The Sun News International 3 Daily Mail ...

The Metro phenomenon: Metro International has dominated the European map as daily freesheets spread across the continent. Pippa Considine reports on the barriers to its further growth and its competitors. (Top European Newspapers).
November 16, 2001... For many years it's been well known that newspaper readership is in decline. So when the daily city freesheet Metro started to make waves in Stockholm in 1995, bringing new, young readers into the market, there was a collective rush of blood...

The web way ahead: will the economic downturn undermine the role websites have made for themselves in the newspaper world? (Top European Newspapers).(Statistical Data Included)
November 16, 2001... It's been a tough time for the online versions of Europe's leading newspapers. The bursting of the dotcom bubble and the travails of the technology and telecoms sector have been compounded by the general advertising slowdown. The widespread...

Getting promoted: in the battle to attract readers, Europe's papers are offering greater incentives. But how far can they go. (Top European Newspapers).(Brief Article)
November 16, 2001... Did you hear the one about the Turkish newspaper that ran a special offer of free funerals? Sounds like a joke? Well, it isn't. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of newspaper promotions. The example above neatly illustrates that...

The press barons. (Top European Newspapers).
November 16, 2001... MARCO TRONCHETTI PROVERA, PRESIDENT, IL SOLE 24 ORE, ITALY Only in Italy, could an industrial magnate also run a leading financial newspaper. Marco Tronchetti Provera, the president of II Sole 24 Ore -- Italy's answer to the Financial...

Red cell's Lindner quits for D'Arcy. (Radio).(Luca Lindner)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... WPP and Bcom3 are involved in a tug-of-war over Luca Lindner, the Italian chief executive of WPP's fledgling agency network, Red Cell, who has resigned to join Bcom3's D'Arcy network. Lindner has been offered the post of president and...

NatMags enters the contract publishing fray with Citrus pair. (Radio).(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... The National Magazine Company, the parent of consumer titles including Cosmopolitan and Esquire, is to launch a contract publishing division. NatMags Contract Publishing will be part of NatMags Specialist Media and will be headed by...

Lloyds sets stage for 18m [pounds sterling] ad pitch. (Radio).(Saatchi and Saatchi's account under serious threat)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 9, 2001... Saatchi & Saatchi's hold on its 18 million [pounds sterling] Lloyds TSB account has come under serious threat with news that the banking giant has initiated talks with agencies about a review of the business. Lloyds is said to have...

MediaCom scoops $163m global Shell account. (Radio).(media planning and buying account )(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 9, 2001... Shell has consolidated its $163 million global media planning and buying account into MediaCom. MediaCom will handle the $80 million media account across Europe and work on Shell's $20 million worldwide corporate account from January...

Bryant homes puts M&C Saatchi's 2m [pounds sterling] ad task up for pitch. (Radio).(preliminary discussions with several agencies )(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Bryant Homes is in talks with agencies about reviewing its 2 million [pounds sterling] above-the-line creative task 15 months after it appointed M&C Saatchi to the account. Steph Gadd, the marketing manager of Bryant Homes, said: "We are...

First the growth now the growing pains as HHCL hits turbulence. (Perspective).(business losses and inconsistent creative output)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 9, 2001... Is it possible for agencies to feel a twinge of sympathy for a rival that's going through the wringer? If reaction to HHCL & Partners' woes is anything to go by, the answer is a definite yes, and all the more so when a once-admired agency...

Barb meets agencies to unveil fresh system.(Broadcasters' Audience Research Board)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 9, 2001... The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board has met with agencies and media owners to reassure them about the changeover, scheduled for January, to its new audience research service. At a presentation for the media industry on Tuesday,...

WPP agrees to honour Tempus takeover at original share price.(555p for each Tempus share)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP has abandoned its attempt to pull out of a deal to buy Tempus and will go ahead with the 432 million [pounds sterling] takeover of the media specialist. WPP notified the Stock Exchange on Tuesday afternoon that it...

Joshua wins ITV Digital DM account to boost subscribers.(below-the-line account)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Joshua has won the ITV Digital below-the-line account after beating Craik Jones Watson Mitchell Voelkel in the final round of the pitch process. Embattled ITV Digital held the review in readiness for a drive to win new subscribers in its...

Doner Cardwell set to promote London tourism for the LTB.(London Tourist Board)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 9, 2001... The London Tourist Board has appointed Doner Cardwell Hawkins to come up with a campaign to attract people back to London following the terrorist attacks in the US. The LTB has a budget of 5 million [pounds sterling] to spend on...

JWT mourns loss of Ken Grimshaw.(art director)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Ken Grimshaw, the highly regarded J. Walter Thompson art director, has died suddenly while on a shoot in Tobago. Grimshaw, who was 48, had been diving on Sunday morning and was later found dead in the swimming pool of his hotel. An...

Morrison quits role at Manning Gottlieb for start-up launch.(Patrick Morrison)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Patrick Morrison, the creative media director at Manning Gottlieb Media, is leaving to launch his own agency. The new agency, called allmodcomms, will specialise in offering creative media solutions. Morrison intends to work directly with...

Ehsrealtime hires Christodoulou and Storey creative duo.(Brian Storey and Xanthos Christodoulou)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Ehsrealtime has hired the former Brann London creative directors, Brian Storey and Xanthos Christodoulou. The pair join ehsrealtime as creative directors, reporting to Patrick Collister, the executive creative director. They resigned from...

Ben & Jerry's selects Fallon for advertising.(media planning and buying arrangements stay in-house)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Fallon has won Ben & Jerry's, the American ice-cream brand bought by Unilever last year, giving the agency its first place on the food giant's coveted roster. The review, which was called in August, was handled through the AAR and...

Circus is set to make redundancies. (Hotline (020) 8267 4656).(in workforce)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Circus is set to make redundancies among its 30-strong workforce because of a downturn in business. Tim Ashton, one of the agency's founding partners, put the number of losses at "under ten", some of which would be at a senior level. "Most of...

Manchester's Cheetham Bell JWT has won. (Hotline (020) 8267 4656).(Grand Prix award)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Manchester's Cheetham Bell JWT has won the Grand Prix at this year's IPA AREA Effectiveness Awards with its work for Dr Beckmann Rescue Oven Cleaner. It was chosen by a panel chaired by James Best, the BMP DDB group chairman.

Mike Readman has been promoted. (Hotline (020) 8267 4656).(at Universal McCann Europe, the Middle East and Africa)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Mike Readman has been promoted to the role of chief operation officer for Universal McCann EMEA. He was previously the network director.

Bestfood's soups and sauces brand, Go Organic. (Hotline (020) 8267 4656).(talking about advertising account to agencies)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... Bestfood's soups and sauces brand, Go Organic, is talking to agencies about its above-the-line account.

The GLA is holding a pitch for an environmental. (Hotline (020) 8267 4656).(Greater London Authority campaign)(Brief Article)
November 9, 2001... The GLA is holding a pitch for an environmental campaign to promote Ken Livingstone's strategy on pollution issues affecting Londoners. Noise, waste and air quality will be covered in the brief. The roster agencies Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, BMP...