Business
Combination, to be known initially as BDM, will be a global agency with more than $1.7 billion in annual revenue.
Nov. 4, 1999
BP Amoco said that it has selected a single agency, Ogilvy & Mather, to handle its worldwide advertising.
Nov. 19, 1999
Reebok Pulls Accounts From Chiat-Day: Reebok International Ltd. dismissed the Los Angeles-based agency that created the “Planet Reebok” campaign and sneaker commercials with basketball’s Shaquille O’Neal.
Sept. 16, 1993
General Motors Corp.
Dec. 9, 1993
* Altrec.com, a travel Web site based in Bellevue, Wash., named the Seattle office of McCann-Erickson its agency of record, charging it with developing a nationwide campaign.
Sept. 10, 1999
Pepsi is about to give glasnost a taste of Madison Avenue razzmatazz.
Dec. 6, 1988
The fall of 1996 could go down in the advertising business as the season of the Big Breakup.
Dec. 14, 1996
Procter & Gamble Co., the world’s biggest advertiser, said it is moving the five product advertising assignments managed by Euro RSCG Worldwide, a unit of Paris-based Havas Advertising, to other global agencies as it consolidates advertising relationships.
Jan. 27, 1999
California
Crime: The man who threw a bichon frise into traffic in a fit of road rage gets the maximum, three years. The pet’s owner praises the judge.
July 14, 2001
Trial: Defendant in road rage case could face three years in prison.
June 20, 2001