Campaign articles from October 2005

Campaign archives from October 2005

Storm brewing over kickbacks.(Interpublic Group of Companies Inc., Universal, Initiative and ISBA)
October 7, 2005... IPG forces Universal and Initiative to repay volume bonuses, leading ISBA to prepare for action. Battle lines were being drawn this week as media agencies braced themselves for an attack from advertisers over the issue of media-owner...

Sir Frank eyes Lowe as IPG faces sell-off.(Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.)(Sir Frank Lowe)(Lowe and Partners)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... As the prospect of IPG disposing of some of its assets looms, it has emerged that Sir Frank Lowe is looking at making his advertising comeback and has approached top-level Lowe staff with a plan to back a management buyout. Lowe is eager...

Agency.com nets first Campaign Digital gold.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Agency.com clinched the top honour at the inaugural Campaign Digital Awards last night, winning the gold award for the best campaign for its NSPCC 'someone to turn to' work. Dare won the most category prizes on the night, scooping four...

MindShare names Glanvill as new CEO.(Jed Glanvill )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... MindShare has promoted Jed Glanvill to chief executive following a restructure of WPP's Group M management team. Glanvill, who is currently MindShare's managing director, will replace Kelly Clark, who is moving to a wider role running WPP's...

Republic names Sandoz top creative.(appointment of Andy Sandoz at Agency Republic)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Agency Republic has ended its year-long search for a creative director by appointing Andy Sandoz, who recently joined the agency as its head of art, to the vacant role. Sandoz joined Republic in August from Randommedia, where he was the...

Lida lands Telewest B2B direct account.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Lida has won the Telewest Broadband business-to-business direct marketing account. The agency landed the business after a final shootout against Harrison Troughton Wunderman, following a pitch conducted by the AAR. Lida will develop...

Havas distances itself from Bollore's bid for Aegis.(Vincent Bollore)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Havas has distanced itself from its chairman Vincent Bollore's growing investment in Aegis Group in the same week that WPP enters the bidding war for Carat's parent. The Havas chief executive, Philippe Wahl, said Bollore's recent remarks -...

ZenithOptimedia slashes TV ad revenue prediction.
October 7, 2005... Lack of consumer confidence and no major sporting event to blame, agency says. TV ad revenue is set to grow by just 1.5 per cent in the UK this year, according to ZenithOptimedia's latest forecast. The agency downgraded its earlier...

P&G awards pounds 340m Gillette to Starcom.(Procter & Gamble Co.)(advertising contracts)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Procter & Gamble has appointed Starcom to handle Gillette's pounds 340 million media buying business. Starcom picked up the account from MindShare without a pitch, after P&G's pounds 32 billion acquisition of the shaving giant earlier in...

Mildenhall takes strategy director position at Mother.(appointment of Jonathan Mildenhall at Mother Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Jonathan Mildenhall, the former managing director of TBWA\London, is joining Mother with a brief to build the agency strategically and raise its international profile. In his new role as Mother's strategy director, Mildenhall will also...

HP hands Modem consolidated brief.(Modem Media Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... HP has consolidated its pan-European search marketing and digital advertising business into Modem Media following a competitive pitch against local and international agencies. The business is understood to be worth around pounds 10 million...

Glue London resigns Pot Noodle citing creative differences.(advertising contracts)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Glue London has resigned its flagship Pot Noodle account, citing creative differences, after three years of award-winning campaigns for the Unilever-owned brand. It is not yet known whether Unilever will hold a pitch for the business or...

Slaymaker to lead car-branding outfit.(Paul Slaymaker)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Paul Slaymaker, a former chief executive of Springer & Jacoby and partner at Boymeetsgirl, is leading the launch of an ambient-media owner. Slaymaker has taken the role of managing director at Roadshow, which will attempt to sell...

BlackBerry brand seeks media shop.(Research In Motion)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... BlackBerry, the remote e-mail device favoured by business managers around the world, is looking for a media agency to handle its pounds 4 million planning and buying account. Research In Motion, the technology company that produces the...

BMB appoints director Duncan Jones.(Beattie McGuinness Bungay )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Beattie McGuinness Bungay has hired the director Duncan Jones in an attempt to boost its creative offering. The appointment comes as Ben Jones, the co-founder of the specialist events agency Cake who joined the BMB creative department in July...

JWT loses pounds 22m Axa account as Grey Australia steps up.(J. Walter Thompson Co.)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... The French insurance giant Axa has parted company with JWT after just two years. The UK advertising account, worth pounds 22 million, will be handled by Grey Worldwide's Australian agency, which won Axa's ad account in that market last...

Internet adspend overtakes outdoor.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Online advertising spend will hit pounds 1 billion by the end of the year and has already overtaken outdoor's market share, according to the latest figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Spend reached...

Capital One hands WWAV pounds 10m direct and digital brief.(WWAV Rapp Collins)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Capital One has handed its pounds 10 million direct and digital marketing accounts to WWAV Rapp Collins. WWAV won the direct business without a pitch after the credit card giant appointed the AAR to conduct a review in July. The pitch was...

Campbell Doyle Dye and PHD launch joint venture.(Sherlock Communications )
October 7, 2005... Sherlock Communications will get creative and media planners working together. Campbell Doyle Dye and PHD have launched a joint venture that will offer creative and media planning services under one roof. The new company, Sherlock...

Orange Playlist set for second series.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Orange has signed up for a second series of its advertiser-funded programme, Orange Playlist. The music and entertainment show is the first brand-backed programme to be re-commissioned by ITV. The weekly show will start on 19 October...

RKCR/Y&R pair win Aerial for Breast Cancer.(Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R's Chris Hodgkiss and Pip Bishop)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Chris Hodgkiss and Pip Bishop, creative directors at Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, have won the monthly Aerial Award for September, held in association with Campaign. The pair's 'apology' spot for Breakthrough Breast Cancer, which...

Dare gives students a digital education.(Dare Digital)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Dare has teamed up with Watford and Brunel colleges to form an education programme designed to get top young creatives into digital advertising. As part of the existing courses in art direction and copywriting, Dare will provide a...

IPG braces for next round of troubles.(Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.)
October 7, 2005... IPG is hoping that its financial restatement means its problems are behind it. In fact, a new phase may be about to begin. As the Interpublic Group of Companies' chairman and chief executive, Michael Roth, finally talked analysts through...

Media Forum: Do poster buying giants work?(Poster Publicity merger)(outdoor advertising)
October 7, 2005... Does the consolidation of outdoor buying benefit advertisers? The poster medium is clearly the place to be these days. While other traditional media face declining audiences and other long-term structural problems, out-of-home is blooming....

Media: Chatter.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... 'It's a bit of an echo chamber, a poor man's Conde Nast and people who work there know it - it's one of those things people understand.' - Conde Nast's managing director, Nicholas Coleridge, puts The National Magazine Company in its place ...

Media: ITV confirms promotion of Gary Digby.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... ITV has confirmed that Gary Digby, its sales director, has been promoted to managing director of ITV Sales. His team will include the sales director, Simon Lent, and the brand partnership director, Gary Knight. Justin Sampson, the director of...

Media: Ntl and Telewest reveal details of merger.(TeleWest Communications PLC)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Ntl and Telewest have revealed details of their long-awaited merger. Simon Duffy, the chief executive of ntl, will take the chief executive role, following ntl's acquisition of Telewest. Duffy has appeared to rule out a sale of Flextech,...

Media: Richard Kilgariff is leaving Turner Broadcasting.(appointment of Dee Forbes)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Richard Kilgariff, the senior vice-president and general manager of Turner Broadcasting UK and Germany, is leaving the company. Dee Forbes, formerly the senior vice-president of European ad sales, has been promoted to senior vice-president and...

Media: ITV plan to launch digital children's channel.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... ITV plans to launch its digital children's channel on 11 February. The free-to-air channel will be available on Freeview and other digital platforms and has yet to be named. It will feature original drama, entertainment, animation, factual and...

Media: Bernard Matthews shortlists agencies to pitch for account.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Bernard Matthews has shortlisted MediaCom, OMD UK, Initiative and the incumbent, AMS, to pitch for its pounds 7 million media account. The appointed agency will commence work at the start of 2006 after a pitch process evaluated by SliK Media.

Media: Thinkbox appoints four new board members.(Justin Sampson, Nick Milligan, James Wildman and Simon Cox appointed )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Thinkbox, the body that promotes the TV medium, has appointed four new board members. ITV's director of customer relationship marketing, Justin Sampson; Nick Milligan, the managing director of Sky Media; James Wildman, the executive sales...

Media: Starcom wins James Villa Holidays account.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Starcom has won the James Villa Holidays media planning and buying account. The business was previously with ARM Direct.

Media: Hero Foods appoints BLM Media.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Hero Foods has appointed BLM Media to handle media planning and buying. Hero, which makes jam, is gearing up for the UK launch of a fruit drink.

Media: Chris Hayward promoted at ZenithOptimedia.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Chris Hayward, the head of TV at ZenithOptimedia, has been promoted to head of broadcast at the agency. Hayward had been tipped for a senior role at Carat following the departure of its head of media, Mark Jarvis.

Media: Xfm reveals replacement of breakfast show host.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Xfm has revealed that Lauren Laverne will replace Christian O'Connell as the host of its breakfast show. Laverne, the presenter of Xfm's drivetime show, will move to the breakfast slot when O'Connell crosses to Virgin Radio to front its...

Media: Amra named national sales house of the year.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Amra, the Trinity Mirror regional sales house, has been named the national sales house of the year at the Newspaper Society's Advertising and Digital Media Awards. It is the third consecutive year that Amra has won the award.

Media: Hi-Fi News has been redesigned.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Hi-Fi News, the IPC Media title, has been redesigned. New features in the title include 'My Top 10', in which famous people pick their top hi-fi items and a new AudioVision section.

Media Headliner: C4 targets older upmarket viewers with More4.(Channel Four Television Company Ltd.)
October 7, 2005... Peter Dale, the new channel's head, tells Ian Darby a grown-up schedule will deliver a small but perfectly formed audience. It's programming designed to run around Audi ads,' one agency director says of More4, Channel 4's new channel, which...

Media Lifeline: PHD.(Abbott Mead Vickers/BBDO Ltd., Ph.D, Pattison Partners Inc.)
October 7, 2005... The media network is finally going global, with Canadian, European and Asian launches. 1990: Jonathan Durden (pictured) and David Pattison, thrusting young joint media directors at WCRS, leave to set up a communications agency with the FCO...

Media Perspective: Clutching at straws can sometimes pay off for incumbents.(advertising agencies)
October 7, 2005... Have you witnessed anything more pathetically deranged in the last fortnight than the sight of Tony Blair bounding on to the Brighton podium to the sound of Sham 69's punk anthem If the Kids are United? The poor old boy is deluded if he...

Media: All About ... Product placement legislation.(EU broadcast legislation)
October 7, 2005... The EU looks set to legitimise this furtive practice, Alasdair Reid writes. The BBC has come a long way since the mid-60s, when it banned the original version of a Kinks hit for rhyming 'Lola' with 'Coca-Cola'. Blue Peter may still be...

Media: Things we like.(ITV PLC's Opportunity Knocks and Gruner and Jahr Aktiengesellschaft und Co.'s View)
October 7, 2005... X-FACTOR It's cheesy, predictable and at times infuriating, but ITV1's reality update of Opportunity Knocks is a much-needed hit for the network. Simon Cowell pompously driving up to auditions in his black Rolls-Royce before laying into...

Media: Double Standards - Making a bob at the dirty end of the business.(Helen Davies)(Interview)
October 7, 2005... Direct marketing supremos tell how a great mailshot feels like a party invitation and how where there's muck, there's 25 per cent of all marketing spend. HELEN DAVIES, HEAD OF DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS, CARAT - How well-equipped are you to...

Media: Strategy Analysis - Helping the Brits do summer better.(Diageo Great Britain Ltd.'s Pimm's)
October 7, 2005... Brand: Pimm's No.1 Client: Diageo Brief: Increase sales of Pimm's Target audience: UK adults Budget: Undisclosed AGENCIES Media: Jessica McQuade, Laura Nice and Stuart Butler at Carat Creative: Mother PR: Trimedia Pimm's...

Media: A Moment with Marquis.(Bartle Bogle Hegarty Ltd.'s Kevin Brown)
October 7, 2005... The agency I admire most is Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Together with a handful of others, it has long been on my 'if I were a client, which would my agency be?' shortlist. Not just for its enviably loyal advertisers or the many campaigns that haunt...

The World: Chicago - JWT picks Ros King to replace Krause as its president.(JWT Chicago)(Barry Krause)(appointments)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Ros King (pictured) has been named the president of JWT Chicago, replacing Barry Krause, who is leaving for personal reasons. King was based in JWT's New York office and was the global business director on the Kraft account. In her new...

The World: New York - BBDO sees off two to win dollars 20m Life Savers business.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... BBDO New York has won the dollars 20 million advertising account for the confectionery brands Life Savers and Creme Savers following a pitch against the brands' other roster agencies, Leo Burnett and FCB. The pitch was called after Wrigley...

The World: New York - Lee reviews dollars 30m assignment.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Lee Jeans has appointed AAR Partners in New York to handle a review of its dollars 30 million above-the-line account, which is held by Fallon Minneapolis. In a statement, the agency, which has held the Lee account since 1986, said it could...

The World: Cannes - Organisers announce restructure of Cannes Festival.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... The organisers of the Cannes International Advertising Festival have announced structural changes to the awards. The press and outdoor categories will, in future, each have their own jury; in the past, one jury has presided over both...

The World: Prague - Modern Times takes 50 per cent stake in GES for EUR96m.(GES Media Europe)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... The Swedish media giant the Modern Times Group has acquired a 50 per cent stake in GES Media Europe, the owner of the Czech Republic TV channel Prima TV for EUR96 million. The deal will see GES renamed as TV Prima Holdings. Martin Dvorak...

The World: Chennai - Burnett hires D'Souza as Chennai vice-president.(Leo Burnett India, Kevin D'Souza )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Leo Burnett India has appointed Kevin D'Souza as the vice-president of its Chennai branch. D'Souza is moving to the agency from Saatchi & Saatchi in Uganda, where he was the managing director. Before that, he worked at Lowe in East Africa...

The World: New York - Hershey to split from roster shops O&M and DDB.(Ogilvy & Mather)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... The confectionery manufacturer Hershey has announced it is parting ways with its long-time roster agencies Ogilvy & Mather and DDB. Arnold Worldwide, another roster agency, will take up most of the extra work and will now look after all of...

The World: New York - TBWA North America names LePlae its president.(Robert LePlae )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Robert LePlae (pictured), the president and chief executive of TBWA\California, has been promoted to president of TBWA North America. He will continue to report to Jean-Marie Dru, the president and chief executive of TBWA\Worldwide,...

The World: Dublin - Associated plans launch for Irish version of Daily Mail.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... The newspaper publisher Associated Newspapers is launching an Irish version of the Daily Mail. The paper will be aimed at women aged under 35 and will be launched in direct competition with the Irish Independent, owned by Independent News...

The World: Barcelona - MPG hands Buceta new role as global print head.(appointed)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Media Planning Group has appointed German Luis Buceta (pictured) to the newly created position of global head of print media. He will be responsible for the management, media buying and negotiations with publishing houses around the world. ...

The World: Singapore - Euro RSCG adds Dell briefs in three Asian countries.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Euro RSCG has consolidated Dell's creative and media buying business in South Asia by winning the Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan accounts. It has also managed to retain its hold on the Indian business and accounts in China and Hong Kong....

The World: Brindley deal strengthens Aegis' Irish position.
October 7, 2005... By adding Brindley to its Carat and Vizeum brands, Aegis has upped its investment in the Irish market. Aegis' decision to buy Brindley Advertising earlier this month brought the Irish agency's independence to an end in a market where...

The World: Insider's View - Spain.
October 7, 2005... Sogecable is set to shake up the Spanish TV market by transforming Canal+ into a free-to-air digital channel, Jesus Olivar writes. The Spanish television market is bracing itself for a series of changes this autumn that will introduce a new...

Close-Up: Profile - Howarth rejoins Hornby to take CHI to next level.
October 7, 2005... Is it jobs for the boys or will Nick Howarth bring more edge to Clemmow Hornby Inge's offer? Emma Barns investigates. Nick Howarth is excited about his imminent departure from HHCL United. Like a cheeky, overgrown schoolboy and brimming...

Close-Up: Live Issue - Do ad agencies get interactive TV?(BBC Broadcast Ltd. and ITV Sales)
October 7, 2005... BBC Broadcast and ITV Sales are on a mission to open agency eyes to the medium. This week, Smirnoff vodka launched an interactive ad created by JWT on Sky Digital. It is the first interactive work from the drinks giant Diageo, and a clear...

Close-Up: 24 Hours with ... Farah Ramzan Golant, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO.
October 7, 2005... Name: Farah Ramzan Golant Job: Chief executive, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO Professional mission: Bring forward new talent and new ideas Personal mantra: Optimism can make good things happen 8.15am Whirlwind shower, cereal, children...

Editorial: What we can learn from adland's best of British.(Editorial)
October 7, 2005... If you had an open chequebook and could roll back the years, who and what would you bring together to create Britain's greatest agency? In fantasy land, you could mix and match the big players. In reality, agencies have their own methods,...

Editorial: Let's take interactive TV ads seriously.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 7, 2005... Once radio was the pariah of creative departments. The same can now be said of interactive TV. Not only are some of the ads poor quality but they are seen as 'bolt-ons' rather than an essential part of the media schedule. Good luck to the BBC...

Opinion: Perspective - Interpublic clean-up raises transparency issue.(Column)
October 7, 2005... They say a principle isn't a principle unless it costs your bottom line dear. Well, the principle of transparency - roundly applauded when the IPA president, David Pattison, made it a key plank of his manifesto - could just be about to cost...

Opinion: On the Campaign Couch ... with JB.(Jeremy Bullmore)(Column)
October 7, 2005... A client writes: While our agency has produced sterling work for us over the past five years, there's a general feeling - both in the company and the trade press - that none of it has been as good as our launch campaign, created by another...

Diary: On the QT ..
October 7, 2005... Avid QT readers will remember last week's tragic tale of Publicis' UK chairman, Tim Lindsay, being left stranded at The Ivy by an absent-minded MT Rainey. Well, rumour has it that Rainey had in fact honoured the lunch engagement. The...

Diary: Adland shows that great minds think all too alike.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... We all know the ad industry is incestuous but a couple of recent campaigns suggest that agency creatives really have been spending a bit too much time together. So much time, in fact, that their ads are starting to look a wee bit similar. ...

Diary: Show some restraint for Leukaemia Research.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Those of you in search of an excuse to lay off the lard in the run up to Christmas need look no further than the charity initiative Refuse a Lunch (www.refusealunch.com), which is urging famously hungry advertising types to forgo their daily...

Diary: DDB do-gooders take on Paddington vandals.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... They're a charitable lot over at DDB London. The agency may have its hands full with the BA pitch, but it isn't ready to rest yet. Last Friday, staff were led by their managing director, Jorian Murray, into the local community for a spot...

Diary: Water-cooler monitor.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... WHAT TOPICS HAS THE INDUSTRY BEEN DISCUSSING THIS WEEK? THE TALK TIME SPENT Old rivals square up: As the prospect of a Sky review 39 mins 29 secs emerges, expect a face-off between...

Diary: Pick of the Week - Joshua/Swatch.
October 7, 2005... Claire Billings is impressed by Joshua's new TV ad for Swatch: 'This ad asks what the consequences would be in Europe if everybody in Asia jumped at exactly the same time. Of course, to orchestrate such a feat, one would need millions of...

Diary: Turkey of the Week - Saatchi & Saatchi/Laughing Cow's Big Cheez Dippers.
October 7, 2005... Glen Mutel dislikes Saatchi & Saatchi's new execution for Laughing Cow's Big Cheez Dippers: 'Here at Campaign, we're all for advertisers using weird ideas to get their products noticed. But this execution is both baffling and highly...

The Greatest Agencies of all time.
October 7, 2005... Picking Britain's best-ever ad agencies isn't like choosing England's greatest all-time football team, where everyone has an opinion and no-one's selection is the same. Consensus is more achievable in adland, where it's easier to identify whose...

The Work: New Campaigns UK.
October 7, 2005... ONE TO LOOK OUT FOR - Smirnoff - Triple distilled Project: Triple distilled Client: James Pennefather, brand director, Smirnoff, Diageo UK Brief: Continue to drive the distinctive values of Smirnoff Creative agency: JWT London Writer:...

The Work: New Campaigns - The World.
October 7, 2005... ELECTRONIC ARTS - BURNOUT REVENGE - INTERNATIONAL Project: Burnout Revenge Client: Ian McGregor, creative director, Electronic Arts Brief: Promote the anarchic style of EA's latest driving game Creative: agency: Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam...

The Work: Private View.
October 7, 2005... CREATIVE - Rooney Carruthers, creative director, VCCP I used to love Camberwick Green and Trumpton when I was a boy. It was so innocent, so English, and so proper. What a shame those days will never return. Well, they have in these ads for...

Movers: Appointment at GCap Media.(Richard Ardis )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Richard Ardis - GCap Media has promoted Ardis to group head of agency sales. In his new role, he will manage a team of six working across the MindShare, MediaCom, Universal McCann, Initiative, Brand Connection and Mediaedge:cia accounts. The...

Movers: Appointment at McMillan-Scott.(Tim Parfitt)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Tim Parfitt, the former managing director of Conde Nast's UK and Spanish contract publishing units, has joined McMillan-Scott's publishing division as the development director. Parfitt is charged with driving expansion of the company's...

Movers: Appointment at Wheel.(Nicki Willoughby )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... The digital agency Wheel has strengthened its media division with two new hirings. Nicki Willoughby joins as an online planner and buyer from Tribal DDB, where she held an equivalent role on Volkswagen UK. Una Carney joins in the same role from...

Movers: Appointment at Buena Vista Home Entertainment.(Julie Sneddon )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Buena Vista Home Entertainment has promoted Julie Sneddon to senior vice-president and general manager of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Based in London, Sneddon will oversee all sales, marketing and operations for BVHE and its wholly...

Movers: Appointment at Rmg:connect.(Simon Mills )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Rmg:connect has hired Simon Mills (pictured) as the group head on its Vodafone account as part of an aggressive expansion of the direct agency. Mills joins rmg from Joshua, where he was the group account director on NatWest and npower. The...

Movers: Appointment at IPC Media.(Deborah Joseph )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... IPC Media has appointed Deborah Joseph (pictured) as the editor of its bridal magazines Wedding and Wedding Flowers. Joseph joins from the Daily Mail, where she was the editor of its Lifestyle section. Before that, she worked at Conde Nast's...

Advice from the top: Industry figures offer their tips on how to follow in their footsteps.
October 7, 2005... 'Having passion for what you do is the most important thing. Take the business seriously, not yourself, and always remember 90 per cent of a great idea is making it happen.' - Kevin Brown, former partner, Soul 'Aim high, stay humble. Be...

Hotline: Nigel Bogle reduces is stake in BBH.(Bartle Bogle Hegarty Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2005... Nigel Bogle is reducing his stake in Bartle Bogle Hegarty to free up shares for new shareholders. The agency's 51 per cent shareholding is currently held by 49 people. This number is set to increase over the next year.