Beat 106 has been reprieved from a management clear-out that has affected many of the other Capital-owned stations nationally. Radical restructuring sees most MDs of local Capital stations being moved into other jobs, but Hugh Murray, Beat’s...
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More than forty people gathered at Faulds last Tuesday to be briefed for this year’s Scottish Advertising Newcomer Award.This year the brief was set by Pete Bastiman, deputy creative director of Faulds, and asks entrants to create an...
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Speculation suggesting that bosses at Faulds have identified an advertising agency in London that they are planning to acquire has been denied by the agency.According to sources close to the agency MD Dennis Chester and other directors have been...
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Recent media reports that The Coltas Group has picked up a £10m piece of advertising business for computer giant Dell are being played down by the company’s CEO Lawrence Craig.An article in last week’s Business am, which Craig...
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Dundee-based recruitment website ScottishAppointments.com has been acquired in an MBO from Scotland Online by Intermedia Publishing, the company headed up by Pat Kelly, the former head of new media at Scotland Online.ScottishAppointments.com...
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Oneagency’s recovery from losing its senior management three months ago is continuing with the appointment of Caroline Cooper as the agency’s new creative director. Cooper joins from Marketing Advantage DDB to fill the void left by...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland is being strongly tipped to turn its back on the Scottish ad industry as rumours circulate that marketing chiefs at the financial giant have shortlisted eight advertising agencies for the forthcoming review of its £...
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After a long search, Metis has appointed Kenny Stewart as its new managing director.He joins the Edinburgh DM agency from the Carlson Marketing Group, where he has been a director of business development. Previously, Stewart spent eight years...
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The Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise are being forced to look for new creative advertising agencies after Yellow M was put into receivership by founder Mike Dethick around two weeks ago, after the senior management team walked out...
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MediaCom has been appointed to handle the media planning and buying for Dumfries and Galloway Tourist Board, sparking some speculation that the main VisitScotland media account could be set to move from Feather Brooksbank.The move also comes as...
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