Under the co-decision procedure, the Conciliation Committee of representatives of the Council and the European Parliament has reached agreement on the Directive concerning common rules for the development of the internal market of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service. The Directive creates a common internal market in the postal sector and… Continue reading EU: Agreement on Postal Services
A report commissioned by the British government is understood to have concluded that the Minister for Public Health should ban food advertising aimed at children. Although it gives no specific timetable it suggests that the ban should be implemented in the lifetime of the current administration (by May 2002 at the latest). Professor Philip James… Continue reading UK: Report Threatens Ad Ban
WPP has formed a new company called the Intuition Group, to focus on advertising and marketing to women.Intuition’s headquarters will be in New York though there will be offices opening in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. The outfit’s first client will be Clairol’s brands such as Nice ‘n’ Easy, Loving Care, Lating Color and… Continue reading WPP Launches New Company
Brown Bear Publishing has now launched its online “newsstand” site where Internet users can browse a variety of magazines and buy subscriptions to the titles.The site, which can be found at http://www.subscriptions.co.uk, features magazines from the sport and fitness, teenage, travel, music and fashion markets. Daniel Squirrel, chief executive of Brown Bear, told Newsline that… Continue reading Subscription Site Launches
Ashdown Publishing has launched a new magazine aimed at 7-13 year-old girls called Girl Power. The monthly title is priced £1.99.Ashdown Publishing: 01403 711 511
The Box, EMAP’s cable music TV channel, has announced today that it is to launch a new music channel on cable and satellite called Magic.Due to launch in Spring 1998, Magic will cater for the 25-44 age group – an older audience than the Box’s current audience of 12-35 year olds. It will focus on… Continue reading Box To Launch Sister Channel
After months of negotiations, agreement has finally been reached between the European Parliament and the Council in the Conciliation Committee on the telecoms directive (formerly known as the ISDN directive). The directive is designed to safeguard privacy and personal information in the context of an open market in telecommunications services. Manuel Medina Ortega (E, PES),… Continue reading EU: Telecoms Text Agreement
Information company Taylor Nelson AGB has just announced that it is to buy French rival Sofres for £119 million. The deal, which is expected to be completed in the next three weeks, will create the fourth largest marketing information company in the world.TNAGB said that the reasons for the alliance with Sofres were its common… Continue reading Taylor Nelson Buys French Rival
Marie-Georges Buffet, France’s sports minister, has said that strict alcohol advertising rules will not be altered to allow World Cup soccer sponsor Anheuser Busch, the US brewing company, to advertise its Budweiser beer at the World Cup finals in France next year.
The Internet recently faced what was perhaps its biggest test to date. The world logged on in anticipation of Judge Hiller Zobel’s announcement of the fate of Louise Woodward. His decision was to be posted first on the Internet and disseminated from there. In theory then, anyone in the world was allowed access to the… Continue reading Web Round-Up W/E 21/11/97
