The two winners of the World Cup competition for readers of Marketing.ie magazine are Jane Power, marketing advisor to the marketing development programme at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business and Mark Shanley of DDFH&B Advertising. They correctly answered Wayne Rooney and Argentina to the questions which England striker stars in the Coca-Cola […]
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It's Arthur's day at PR Awards
Arthur’s Day, the celebrations to mark 250 years of the Guinness brewery in Dublin, has won the supreme prize at this year’s Awards for Excellence in PR presented at a lunch in the Conrad Hotel yesterday. WHPR and a team headed by Sharon Murphy accepted the honour from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin. […]
Rubicon to hire creatives
Rubicon Advertising, the recruitment agency run by father-and-son team, Des and Eoghan O’Meara, is expanding its creative resources. The agency has run newspaper ads looking to hire freelance designers and copywriters to work on a number of projects which are “in the pipeline”. Experienced creatives at all levels of the business are being sought to […]
Trevor Beattie to chair Sharks jury
Renowned British adman Trevor Beattie is to chair this year’s Sharks jury at the festival in Kinsale in the second week of September, festival manager Tanya Cawley has confirmed. A founding director of Beattie McGuinness Bungay, his work includes Wonderbra, Fcuk, Sony PlayStation and the Labour Party. There will be two creative speaking events this […]
Tall Ships contracts awarded
The contract to provide branding and advertising services for the visit to Ireland of the Tall Ships Race in 2011 has been awarded to First Advertising and Totem Visual Communications. Over 70 tall ships and an anticipated 500,000 maritime and music fans will visit the quays of Waterford city for the four day event. The […]
Sponsors sought for Paul McGrath charity golf classic
A call has gone out for sponsors to support the annual Paul McGrath charity golf classic in aid of Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland (CFAI) which will be played at Arklow Golf Club in Co Wicklow on Friday, July 16th. Among the celebrities due to take part are two of McGrath’s former teammates, Ronnie Whelan […]
RTE promotes GAA coverage
RTÉ is promoting The Sunday Game with a multi-media campaign for this year’s GAA Football & Hurling All Ireland Senior Championships. The national campaign, which features studio anchorman Michael Lyster and analysts Pat Spillane and Ger Loughnane, will run throughout July, August and September. At the campaign announcement were Colm Coonagh, art director and Fiona McFaul, […]
Denny new Simon supporter
Kerry Foods and its Denny meats brand is the new lead sponsor of Simon Week, seven days of action on homelessness in Ireland. Denny replaces the EBS Building Society for the week starting on October 4th. This year the theme is ‘Believing in people’, the people who need help and the volunteers who provide it. […]
NNI angered by BAI proposal
The National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI) has expressed outrage at the draft proposal made by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) to increase the amount of advertising allowed on independent commercial television in Ireland. A spokesperson for the NNI said the nature of the Irish advertising market means that any changes to the rules governing […]
Agencies gear up for BMW
A number of agencies pitched this week for the BMW car account, currently handled by McConnells. Along with the incumbent, others in contention are Boys and Girls, Chemistry, Rothco and Y&R. A decision is expected by the end of June. Amnesty International has appointed Irish International BBDO after a four-way pitch. Boys and Girls has […]
Ocean boss keen to acquire
Doug Baxter, founder of Interactive Ocean (IO) and Ocean PR, has said that he is actively looking at acquiring other marcom companies in a bid to broaden the business further. The IO group recently acquired Providence PR, an agency specialising in charities and consumer accounts. Providence clients included Norma Smurfit’s Irish Famine Commemoration Fund, Niall […]
Volunteers offered lifetime adventure
Two people are being offered the chance to spend a year globetrotting, all expenses paid, as part of a new RTE TV series. The winners of Do the Right Thing will work as volunteers in some the world’s most underdeveloped areas, on aid projects such as building schools in Africa and working with orphaned street […]
Vouchers demand on a roll
The downturn in the economy has seen an increase in consumer demand for bargain vouchers and money-saving coupons with 64 per cent now using such price-saving devices when out shopping or going for credit crunch lunches or early bird specials, a report by new Irish website Voucherworld.com claims. As many as 53 per cent of […]
