17
Aug

AD MAN OR MAD MAN?

Simon was my creative partner, business partner, dearest friend, confidant and regularly an exasperating bugger. He used to joke that ours was the only relationship he had managed to maintain – Jane called me his ‘second wife’. We met in 1985, I was creative director of Ash Gupta Advertising and he was a copywriter at CDP Marr when we were both involved in D&AD student workshops. Although quite different characters, we immediately hit it off and cemented our friendship over large gin and tonics at the Caledonian Hotel. As fate would have it, we were thrown together at Hall Advertising the following year when I had decided to move to Australia and was invited by Jim Downie to work at Halls whilst waiting for my paperwork to come through. Simon had moved to Halls and was now Jim’s copywriter. The three of us shared an office, but Jim lived in wall-to-wall meetings, so we worked on various jobs together.

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13
Jun

STANDARD LIFE BANK LAUNCHES FREESTYLE MORTGAGE WITH TV CAMPAIGN

The Union has developed a new TV and press campaign to promote Standard Life Bank’s new flexible mortgage product, the Freestyle Mortgage. The new mortgage allows overpayments, payment holidays and has no hidden charges.

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13
Aug

STANDARD LIFE HIRES UNION FOR TELEPHONE BANK LAUNCH

In a competitive pitch The Union has won the Standard Life Bank advertising account. Standard Life, the leading European life insurer, will be launching a new telephone bank, offering attractive savings rates and flexible mortgages.

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