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PRODUCTION house Mills Media says it has secured 121 new contract wins since November - up a third on the same period a year earlier.
LDP Creative blogger Dougal Paver on Tesco's "jim-jam ban"
NEWS that a Tesco store in Cardiff has banned customers wearing pyjamas from entering the store will doubtless feature large in this week's Radio 4 News Quiz.

MARKETING firms are becoming more optimistic about their financial fortunues, a new poll today reveals.
The latest Bellwether survey from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) and accountants BDO showed marketing spend fell for the ninth quarter running in the last quarter of 2009, but with the rate of budget trimming the slowest since the first quarter of 2008.
Here's the latest blog from LDP Creative blogger Dougal Paver:
I DON'T doubt that if Dr Atkins were alive he'd be a most eloquent advocate for my choice of post-Christmas detox diet. And right now I need him.

MULTI-AWARD winning David Milligan-Croft has been appointed as the new creative director at Wirral agency ICE.

LDP Creative blogger Dougal Paver sees battle lines drawn on the party balance sheet
DAVID Cameron yesterday revealed the first chapter in the Tory party's manifesto - and backed up the PR blitz with 1,000 posters around the country.

MERSEYSIDE'S creative sector will start growing again in 2010 after a year of consolidation - that's the view from some of the industry's key players.
ONLINE marketing firm Hit Search has won a contract to work with designer fashion retailer Matchesfashion.com
Stuart Jackson of Wirral marketing agency ICE on his decade in the creative sector
THERE'S no getting away from the explosion in new technologies, which have upped the pace and given creative businesses more control over almost every aspect of their work over the past decade.
Guest blogger Dougal Paver on branding and the BA strike
NEWS that British Airways staff have voted for strike action over the Christmas period, beginning December 22, poses less of a reputational issue for the airline and rather more of one for its workforce.




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