03 Sep 1998
| by STEVE BELL
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.
03 Sep 1998
| by BINNUR BEYAZTAS
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....
03 Sep 1998
| by BINNUR BEYAZTAS
The Treasury this week launches a high-profile marketing campaign
aimed at educating 4.5 million UK small- and medium-size enterprises
(SMEs) about the introduction of the single currency on January 1 next
year.
03 Sep 1998
| by STEVE BELL
NatWest has shied away from using its brand on a new
personal-information service because it feared the name would put off
customers.
03 Sep 1998
| by AMANDA MACCHI, Director Of Sales And Ma
IPC, publisher of such magazines as Marie Claire and Woman s
Journal, is to offer its lifestyle database to other companies for the
first time.
03 Sep 1998
| by BINNUR BEYAZTAS
Seven million UK consumers could be banking online by 2003,
according to a new report by Fletcher Research. The report, entitled A
Survey of UK Personal Finance Online , found that the online offering of
most UK personal-finance companies is poor, and that UK consumers are
ready to go online but are...
03 Sep 1998
| by RACHEL BAIRD
Electronic Share Information (ESI), the UK s first online trading
services provider, has appointed Carat Interactive and its sister
company Carat Direct, as its online media and planning agency.
03 Sep 1998
| by ROBERT GRAY
15 years ago: Sony launches five new products, although it hasn t
had a marketing director since Tim Steel left ten months ago; Thorn EMI
launches a massive pounds 25m revamp of its Rumbelows chain, including a
TV campaign featuring a strange cartoon family; PR company Good
Relations hits the stock...
03 Sep 1998
| by JANE BAINBRIDGE
Of all forms of flexible working, job sharing is perhaps the
hardest to establish and one that encounters the greatest
scepticism.