The February Retail Price Index was announced this morning as 155.0, an increase of 0.4% on January and a rise of 2.7% on February 1996.For RPI trends subscribers can access MediaTel’s Encyclomedia section in Talking Windows.
Future Publishing has announced that it is relaunching Mountain Bike Pro for the second time. The title was wheeled out of its bike shed for the first time back in 1993 *Future Bike Title, it returned for an overhaul at the beginning of last year and now its latest relaunch has been set for April.… Continue reading Another False Start For Mountain Bike Pro
The magic of Alton Towers is supposed to have arrived on the Net. The Alton Towers site can be found at http://www.alton-towers.co.uk/opening.html, but unfortunately the magic must have fizzled out on route.Holiday brochures on Alton Towers are far more exciting to look at than this site. It is primarily text-based, the pictures that are available… Continue reading Web Site Of The Week – Alton Towers
Cable & Wireless, the recently merged cable giant * Cable Companies Merge, has announced the appointment of Ruth Blakemore as marketing director.She is currently marketing director of Bell Cablemedia and was previously new business director at DMB&B/IMP. Blakemore also set up her own marketing agency, Fusion Marketing.Her appointment coincides with that of Philip Langsdale as… Continue reading C&W Appoint Marketing Director
Abbott Mead Vickers plc published its preliminary results today for the year ending 31 December 1996.1996 proved a highly successful year for the company. Turnover was up 25% to £358.4 million and operating profit rose 32% to £13.76 million. As a result, earnings per share increased by 27% year-on-year to 24.06p. Dividends per share were… Continue reading Earnings Per Share Up 27% At AMV
The £12m merger between TBWA and Simons Palmer Clemmow Johnson *(Newsline 23/01/97) appears to be faltering, according to a report in Campaign.It is said that a board meeting to finalise the merger details broke down after there were disagreements over the future role of key members of staff. It is thought that Andrew Ward and… Continue reading TBWA Merger “On The Rocks”
Eighty delegates either battled through the west London traffic, or walked the half mile from the station in drizzly rain to descend on the Cosmic Comedy Club, situated in a seedy Hammersmith street. They weren’t flocking to another industry party, but to Marketing Week’s Marketing To Adultescents’ conference.It was a surreal setting for a serious… Continue reading Adultescents, The Nomadic Generation
Northcliffe Newspaper Group’s Carmarthen Citizen has been relaunched in a move aimed at providing more of a complement to its sister paid-for title the Carmarthen Journal .The free newspaper will now be called the Carmarthen Herald and will increase its distribution by 500 copies to almost 7,700. This is expected to increase again to 10,000… Continue reading Northcliffe Relaunches Carmarthen Citizen
The National Theatre, on London’s South Bank, played host to the IPA’s tribute to last year’s best advertising campaigns. Good use was made of the setting as the audience in the Oliver Theatre were treated to a spectacular opening as dramatic, gradually louder, music pre-empted the flashing lights of the ‘Guys & Dolls’ backdrop. From… Continue reading It Pays To Advertise
Mills & Allen has promoted its national sales manager, Kevin Shute to director of sales. This follows the resignation of Paul Shearing who has left to become deputy managing director of Poster Publicity.Zest also approved an internal promotion this week, Emma Hewson, previously head of advertising sales, is to take on the newly created position… Continue reading New Recruits
