Diesel revamps to go upmarket
03 Sep 1998 | by LUCY BARRETT
Diesel, the Italian fashion brand, this week split from its global advertising agency, Lowe Howard-Spink, as it tries to drive its brand upmarket.
Cable & Wireless Communications has beaten BT to the launch of a pay-as-you-go internet service.
Diesel, the Italian fashion brand, this week split from its global advertising agency, Lowe Howard-Spink, as it tries to drive its brand upmarket.
Companies such as Unilever and Procter & Gamble are being forced to pay more to advertise in certain parts of the UK because Granada Group is spending heavily in its own ITV sales regions.
Computer games firm Eidos has secured a deal with teenage football sensation Michael Owen to produce a new video game, Michael Owen s World League Soccer 99.
Scottish Widows, the financial services brand whose symbol is an attractive woman in a black shroud, is threatening legal action against a web site which is promising to show her naked if it receives enough money.
Southern Electric and Scottish Hydro-Electric are merging to form a new company, Scottish and Southern Energy. Valued at pounds 5bn, it will be one of the largest energy supply businesses in the UK, with 3.3 million customers. Southern chief executive Jim Forbes is to take the same role at the new group....
After a seven-month delay the Mirror Group has invited five agencies to pitch for the creative advertising account for Sporting Life, the newspaper that will re-launch as a daily next year.
British Gas Energy Centres, the retail arm of Centrica, has appointed Nigel Kenyon Jones as its marketing director following the departure of Liz Hendersen four months ago.
Mothercare, the children s clothing retailer, has appointed advertising agency Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters on a project basis to polish up its image and win back market share lost to retail rivals.
IPC Magazines has named a new publisher for its best-selling lads magazine, Loaded.