Business News - March 2008

    • Thursday, 27 March 2008

      Sci-Mentor Appoints Good Relations To Launch New Range

      Good Relations has been appointed by Sci-Mentor, a sports supplement company, to launch the new brand and take the company to the next level.Good Relations won the contract following a three-way pitch process. The programme will be a mixture of celebrity endorsement, sponsorship management, media relations and promotions.David Webb, Sales...

    • Tuesday, 25 March 2008

      Bell Pottinger Group Appoint Paul O’Donoghue as Director of Digital

      Bell Pottinger has appointed Paul O’Donoghue in the role of Director of Digital with a remit to lead the rapidly developing digital capabilities of the Group.Previously Paul was the Managing Director of Green Cathedral Digital Marketing where he took the Cambridge and London based agency into the UK’s top 15...

    • Wednesday, 19 March 2008

      Bell Pottinger Expands Healthcare Business

      Bell Pottinger Health formed to lead expansionBell Pottinger Group has formed Bell Pottinger Health, a new business dedicated to leading the expansion of its health franchise with Shipra Singh newly hired as Managing Director. Simultaneously the company has brought in a life science investor relations team led by Mike Wort....

    • Tuesday, 18 March 2008

      Naked Eye joins Chime’s Research and Engagement Division

      Deborah Mattinson and Viki Cooke, Joint Chairs of Chime’s Research and Engagement Division, are delighted to announce that Nick Leon, one of the UK’s leading practitioners of ethnographic research (helping clients better understand customers by close observation of how they behave in their daily lives) and his successful business, Naked...

    • Monday, 17 March 2008

      VCCP and Aardman Animation win at British Animation Awards

      Hector, the animated character that supports Texaco’s Road Safety campaign, has won the award for New Media: Best Commissioned Animation at the recent British Animation Awards. Created by Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest (VCCP) Hector won the award for its ‘beautiful design and innovative use of 2D and 3D animation, and...

    • Friday, 14 March 2008

      O2 promotes O2 Bluebook with £4.5million marketing campaign by VCCP

      O2 is launching a £4.5million marketing campaign to promote O2 Bluebook, an innovative free service which enables O2 customers to back up and store all the valuable information held on their mobile phones, including address book contacts, text and picture messages and photographs, securely on a personal online portal. The...

    • Thursday, 13 March 2008

      Video conferencing leader Impact Marcom appoints Insight for UK PR

      Impact Marcom, Europe’s largest audio video systems integrator, has appointed technology PR agency Insight Marketing & Communications, part of the Bell Pottinger Group, to manage its public relations in the UK. Insight has been given an extensive campaign brief to boost awareness of Impacts' offering to both the corporate market...

    • Monday, 10 March 2008

      Donovan Data Systems Appoints Bell Pottinger USA for North American Press Relations

      Agency Tasked with Raising Profile of DDS System Portfolio and Launch New Digital Media CapabilitiesBOSTON – March 10, 2008 -- Bell Pottinger USA has been appointed by Donovan Data Systems (DDS), the market leading systems and software provider to the marketing communications industry, as its public relations agency.Bell Pottinger USA...

    • Monday, 10 March 2008

      LOCOG Appoints Chime Communications as Marketing Communications Agency

      Chris Townsend Commercial Director of LOCOG commented: “The brief was to come up with an integrated marketing communications strategy and plan for the first year of the London 2012 Olympiad - which begins this year when the Beijing Games end in August. Chime came up with a marketing communications strategy...

    • Monday, 10 March 2008

      VCCP Blue’s Comparative advertising leads the way for comparethemarket.com

      Comparethemarket.com, the online car insurance comparison site, is to run a new set of TV commercials created by its retained agency, VCCP Blue.The 30”, 20” & 10” spots feature the voice of the actor, Martin Shaw and intensify the fact that the site is always striving to reduce its prices...

    • Thursday, 06 March 2008

      Metro unwraps its latest user generated portal by VCCP

      Metro, the urban national newspaper, is promoting its new user generated portal (UGC) MEview with a full colour national cover wrap around its paper and page peel on www.metro.co.uk on the 5th March, with creative by its ad agency VCCP. The four page cover wrap, sponsored by Coors Light which...

    • Wednesday, 05 March 2008

      Record Amount Of Partners Secured For Fina World Swimming Championships By Fast Track

      Fast Track announces three more sponsorship partners at national level for the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships. This now takes the total amount of partners to a new record of eleven partners with more to be announced.John Lewis, Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) and Manchester Arndale (Shopping Centre) have...

    • Monday, 03 March 2008

      Bennetts launches ident campaign

      Bennetts, the UK's favourite motorbike insurance provider, is launching an ident campaign to support its sponsorship of the World Superbike Championship on Eurosport. The campaign starts with the launch of the World Superbike Champsionship with a series of new idents created by VCCP. The campaign follows hot on the heels...