Camelot’s new franchise venture company, Camelot Enterprises, has been forced to change its name. At the same time, it is appointing the parent company’s marketing director, John Kinsey, as its new chief. Camelot Enterprises will change its name to National Lottery Enterprises after it discovered a firm of the same name operates in Stockport, Cheshire. […]
The EMAP and Metro Radio Groups have launched a joint sales venture across their 11 radio stations targeting advertisers on the Channel 4 Northern macro region. The joint sell, across the North-West, Yorkshire and the North-East, has heightened speculation about EMAP’s intentions for Metro. The company has been considering acquiring stakes in Metro presently held […]
Sega is to launch a 3D successor to Sonic the Hedgehog, designed to run on the new Saturn games machines to be released next month. Saturn product manager Jeremy Crisp says the game, called Bug, will launch in September. It will be technically-superior to Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog game, says Crisp. Crisp confirmed that Saturn’s […]
US-owned toy giant Hasbro has appointed Colgate Palmolive sales director Alistair Richards to the newly-created post of commercial director in charge of sales and marketing. The business heads of the company’s two divisions, Nicola Basham at pre-school and toys, and Graham Derby at board games and puzzles, will report to Richards. At Colgate Palmolive, Rich-ards […]
Poster contractor Maiden Outdoor is to buy bus, rail and roadside contractor British Transport Advertising, as forecast in Marketing Week on April 28, pending a referral to the Office of Fair Trading. Speculation that London Underground ad company TDI has taken over the bus side of BTA has been denied by Maiden and TDI. The […]
Food Brokers is looking for a new agency for Haitai chewing gum only four months after appointing Lansdown Conquest. It is understood Haitai, the South Korean chewing gum, has already drawn up a shortlist for the 2m pan-European account. Lansdown won the business in February after a last-minute pitch against Grey London and Integrator. Haitai […]
Van den Bergh Foods has offered to waive its claim to 310,000, which was lost when a charity event it sponsored collapsed with debts of 1.4m. But it will do this only if other creditors, who held the company partly responsible for the collapse of the Flora Aerobathon, agree not to pursue the food giant […]
Virgin Cola’s volume share of cola sales in UK stores fell from 4.6 to 3.3 per cent from March to May, according to AC Nielsen’s retail tracking system Insight.
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Will nostalgia, new targets and formulation changes revive the flagging scent market?
Sainsbury’s is to run a high-risk TV advertising campaign featuring footballer Bruce Grobbelaar, who was arrested for match-fixing earlier this year, to front its new advertisements. Grobbelaar was arrested along with John Fashanu and Hans Segers after allegations, first aired in The Sun newspaper, that he had taken more than 40,000 from a Far Eastern […]
Keeping pace with global developments involves more than addressing short-term, specific needs. John Shannon finds that advertisers must strive for a broader understanding
Tussauds Group head of corporate marketing Nick Varney has resigned to become managing director of leisure company competitor Vardon Attractions. Varney will be replaced by Jill Britton, divisional director of marketing at Tussaud’s-owned Alton Towers. Britton will remain in her role at the theme park until next January to see through the first stages of […]
After a year of constant staff upheavals, direct marketing agency PPHN is relaunching in July as Touch. Only one of the original founders of PPHN, creative partner Ian Haworth, is still at the agency. Stewart Pearson, who co-founded the agency in 1989, was forced out in August last year and last month PPHN managing director […]
NEWS Campbell’s has picked Colman’s of Norwich marketing director Alison Levett to take on the same role at the world’s largest soup company.