Business News - February 2009

    • Monday, 02 March 2009

      Aer Lingus launch TV campaign by VCCP

      Aer Lingus has launched their new TV campaign to promote flights from Gatwick to Europe, with destinations such as Malaga, Faro, Nice, Munich, Zurich and Vienna. The 30 sec ad goes live today, Monday 2nd March, with a second ad breaking next week.The ads will run for four weeks in...

    • Friday, 27 February 2009

      VCCP Appointed to Handle the £4m Müller Rice Ad Account

      Following the successful pitch for the £8m Müller Corners account VCCP has been appointed to handle the Müller Rice advertising account worth £4m.  Chris McDonough, Müller’s Marketing Director said “VCCP was able to meet the changing creative demands of the brand with fresh insight and energy”. The advertising campaign will break...

    • Wednesday, 25 February 2009

      Dominic Stinton Joins VCCP

      Dominic Stinton joins VCCP this week. Dominic will be joining as a Partner to work alongside Michael Sugden and the VCCP Executive Management Team to continue driving the agency forward. He will also be taking over specific account responsibilities as yet to be confirmed and working on new business briefs. Dominic...

    • Tuesday, 24 February 2009

      Morrisons Win for Good Relations

      Good Relations (GR) has been appointed by Morrisons as the supermarket’s retained public affairs agency.The team is led by GR Director, Estelle McCartney who reports into Morrison’s Richard Taylor, Director of Corporate Affairs. The supermarket has been enjoying record sales and announced last month that it was to create 5,000...

    • Monday, 23 February 2009

      O2 unveils £5.5m marketing campaign by VCCP for O2 Top-up Surprises

      O2 today announces it is extending its hugely successful O2 Top-up Surprises proposition and is launching a £5.5million marketing campaign to promote it.Initially launched in November 2008, O2 Top-up Surprises guarantees Pay & Go customers a Surprise every time they top-up. Customers are given a unique code to claim at...

    • Friday, 20 February 2009

      Resonate wins the launch of Tesco’s biggest ever CSR campaign

      Resonate, part of the Bell Pottinger Group, is delighted to have been appointed by Tesco to launch and run the 2009 PR Campaign for the retailer's new CSR initiative, ‘Tesco for Schools and Clubs’.  Resonate was appointed following a competitive pitch for a year long campaign of PR support.   'Tesco...

    • Friday, 20 February 2009

      De Facto and Harvard jointly win InterSystems account

      Members of the Bell Pottinger Group tasked to promote ‘Work with InterSystems. Not separate systems’  De Facto Communications and Harvard, both part of the Bell Pottinger Group, have secured a joint brief to provide PR support for InterSystems Corporation, a global software technology vendor operating in the data management, application...

    • Friday, 13 February 2009

      Motor Sports Association appoints Bell Pottinger

      The Motor Sports Association (MSA) has appointed Bell Pottinger Public Affairs (BPPA) as its retained public affairs agency to promote the interests of motor sport in the UK.BPPA will provide government relations support to the MSA, positioning the sport and associated industry as an important part of British culture and...

    • Monday, 09 February 2009

      Duke Street Appoints Bell Pottinger

      Duke Street, one of Europe’s leading private equity firms, has appointed Bell Pottinger Corporate & Financial (BPC&F) as its retained PR consultancy in the UK with responsibility for co-ordination of its international media activities.BPC&F will concentrate on strengthening Duke Street’s corporate profile with company management teams through a focused, differentiated...

    • Friday, 06 February 2009

      FSA LAUNCHES MAJOR NEW CAMPAIGN TO TACKLE SATURATED FAT

      The Food Standards Agency is launching a heavy weight £3.5 million advertising campaign on 10 February to encourage consumers to reduce their intake of saturated fat.The awareness campaign includes TV and press ads, extensive public relations activity, digital marketing, roadside and supermarket 6-sheets to promote a range of simple, positive...

    • Thursday, 05 February 2009

      SHC APPOINTED RETAINED AGENCY FOR STUFF LIVE 2009 FOR THE THIRD YEAR RUNNING

      Stuart Higgins Communications has been appointed by Haymarket Exhibitions as its retained PR agency to work on Stuff Live, 2009, for the third consecutive year.Now in its year fourth year, the UK’s best gadget show brought to you by market leading gadget magazine Stuff, in association with What Hi Fi...

    • Wednesday, 04 February 2009

      Cheapflights consolidates its global PPC account into one agency, VCCP Search

      Following a three way pitch, Cheapflights Ltd., the international flights price comparison website with sites in the UK, US, Canada and Germany, has awarded VCCP Search its global PPC account.  The company has a multi-million pound yearly spend on worldwide paid search.VCCP Search, the incumbent UK agency, was asked to...

    • Tuesday, 03 February 2009

      PolyTherics Appoints De Facto Communications as PR Specialists

      De Facto Communications, part of the Bell Pottinger Group, is pleased to announce that they have been appointed by PolyTherics as their full service communications agency. Founded in 2002, PolyTherics is a spin-out company from Imperial College London and the London School of Pharmacy that is dedicated to using biomedical...