Golden Wonder has been ordered to remove illegal flyposters for its Bandido tortilla crisp brand. The snack food giant launched a flyposting campaign through Tequila UK this year. It was intended to give its Bandidos snacks an underground, streetwise image. But Golden Wonder has now been ordered to remove some posters because they are being […]
If you’re feeling alone and unloved and WLTM a N/S better half with a GSOH, where can you turn? Look no further than the Kindred Spirits ads in The Sunday Telegraph
Allied Domecq has appointed new media specialist Curtis Hoy Beeston interactive (CHBi) to develop an interactive entertainment network for UK pubs. “Interactive media is now integral to our marketing plans,” says Allied Domecq Group media manager Patrick Burton. CHBi will develop an in-pub interactive entertainment system, known as Pub Net. Screens will be linked with […]
Leagas Shafron Davis Ayer rolls out its first `original’ work for the Volkswagen-owned Seat this weekend. The agency secured the ú5m account last year after an extended pitch for the total pan-European business was won by Ayer Europe. The new campaign is designed to highlight Seat’s value-for-money image via an interplay between two characters: one, […]
It’s a mystery to me why you included a mention of Gay Times in your article “Rude Awakening” (MW February 10) about the distribution, sales and advertising revenue of soft-porn magazines. WH Smith tends to put our magazine on the top shelf, largely because of the ads we carry for telephone contact lines. However, many […]
Young & Rubicam is understood to have won the ú3.5m European Night Services business to promote the Channel Tunnel’s sleeper service.
Holsten Distributors is axing its 12-year sponsorship of Tottenham Hotspurs football club at the end of the season, and could pull out of sponsorship altogether. The last deal the two companies signed nearly three years ago was worth ú1.9m over three years. Tottenham is expected to announce a replacement sponsor within the next few weeks. […]
At one time, you were either young, middle-aged, old or dead. Now, the world is full of Generation X and Third Agers, all desperate to be targeted.
* Frank Mars launched chocolate and nougat bar, Milky Way in the US in 1923. He gave his son Forrest Snr $50,000 and the foreign rights to market the brand, which was launched in the UK and renamed the Mars bar. It was produced at a factory in Slough from August 1932. A different product, […]
Virginia Matthews’ jousting with the customer service industry (MW, February 17) elicited a few sympathetic groans here at The Cade Partnership. As an agency with a good deal of experience helping clients handle customer complaints, we are only too familiar with the “how may I help you?” brigade. Telephone helplines are a marvellous opportunity to […]
Zenith Media will not lose the Mars media buying business, despite Saatchi & Saatchi’s loss of the global and media strategy business, Mars confirmed this week. According to John Murray, staff officer (franchise) at Mars in the US: “There is no media buying review underway and we are not making any special evaluation of media […]
British marketing isn’t what it used to be, says a recent article in the Economist. A series of misfortunes engulfing such Eighties bellwethers as Saatchi & Saatchi, Unilever and J Sainsbury has exposed them as City idols with feet of clay. It might seem nit-picking to question the misfortune afflicting J Sainsbury, which has seen […]
Arsenal striker Ian Wright and upmarket publisher the Magazine Collection have formed a joint venture to publish a football and lifestyle magazine. The Player, to be launched in April, will be a glossy upmarket bi-monthly aimed at men aged 20 to 44 and is the latest entrant to the burgeoning men’s magazine market. Dennis Publishing’s […]
While many sympathise with those protesting against live animal exports, it should be noted that meat consumption is actually on the increase. By George Pitcher
How many people feel at odds with the current practice of marketing and the closely related business of marketing communications? Battered by the recession and controlled by accountants, perhaps despair is just around the corner? Examples of the damage wrought by the combined attentions of recession, and subsequently the bean counters, are numerous. High-street retailers […]