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View Article  Will Shell's intergalactic experiment pay off?
Hang on! I've got a new idea... ...said Don Marketing when the agency sold Shell its idea for the Star Trek promotion, neatly persuading the oil giant to abandon its catalogue scheme promotions.    more »
View Article  Deaths on Oil Platform return to haunt Shell
The allegations relate to a deeply flawed “Touch Fuck All” safety culture on Shell North Sea Oil Platforms which led to the deaths of Shell offshore employees working on the Brent Bravo Platform. Basically production and profits were given a higher priority than the lives of Shell offshore workers.   more »
View Article  SUPER MARKETING: Cinzano roulette could set a trend
Bottles featuring the £100,000 instant roulette are now appearing on shelves. "There is great potential for such promotions in the drinks industry,” says John Chambers, managing director of Don Marketing, the scratch card company which put the idea of sales promotion agency CBH and Partners into action.   more »
View Article  Marketing Magazine: The play's the thing
The promotion, run by Don Marketing, gave the lie to the well-worn theory that the distress-purchase nature of petrol buying means that location and price are the critical sales factors.   more »
View Article  Shell Press Release for Shell Mastermind Promotion
John Smeddle, Sales Manager, Shell UK Oil said: "The success of Make Money, which we launched in February, is now a matter of record.   more »
View Article  Marketing Week LETTERS page: Scratch ‘n’ miff
We were flattered to read the reference by Brian Francis to the Cinzano Instant Roulette bottle label scratch-off game, which he praises as the "most successful ever pre-christmas promotion run of Cinzano".   more »
View Article  Sales Promotion Magazine: Shell launches Star Trek scratchcard game
In the wake 'of Collect & Select, Shell has launched a new scratch card promotion under the banner 'Star Trek - The Game'.   more »
View Article  Promotions & Incentives Magazine: Warp factor ten, Captain!
Presumably because of his connections, Mr Spock senior and the family dog have ended up working for Shell on their latest forecourt promotion - 'Star Trek - The Game'.   more »
View Article  Promotions & Incentives Magazine: National lottery takes its chances
A national lottery looks set to make a reappearance in the UK by 1994, after an absence of 166 years. We find out what the experts think.   more »
View Article  PROMOTIONS & INCENTIVES: UP TO SCRATCH
John Donovan, managing director of Don Marketing, an agency specialising in promotional games, says he has supplied more than a billion game pieces...   more »
View Article  Don Marketing, the sales promotion company in a legal dispute with Shell...
Don Marketing, the sales promotion company in a legal dispute with Shell UK, is taking an advertisement in Service Station Magazine. The ad asks for people who are concerned about the ethical conduct of Shell to join a Shell corporate conscience pressure group.   more »
View Article  Forecourt News: NOTICE TO SHELL DEALERS!
We have issued a number of High Court Writs against Shell...   more »
View Article  SHELL CORPORATE CONSCIENCE PRESSURE GROUP
Membership Recruitment advert published in Forecourt News and Forecourt Trader, February 1995   more »
View Article  Don Marketing and oil giant Shell UK's latest round in their continuing legal battle...
Don Marketing and oil giant Shell UK's latest round in their continuing legal battle (MW January 17) was adjourned until April 13 at the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday...   more »
View Article  Marketing Week Magazine: Shell faces libel action as Don's founder issues writ
Alfred Donovan, a founder of sales promotion company Don Marketing and the Shell Corporate Conscience Pressure Group, has issued a writ against Shell UK claiming damages for libel.   more »
View Article  Shell has confirmed that its senior management will hold talks with Don Marketing
Shell has confirmed that its senior management will hold talks with Don Marketing to resolve legal actions between the two. Don has issued a libel writ, a high-court action and a small-claims case against Shell in a two-year struggle over two disputed promotions.   more »
View Article  John Donovan, of sales promotion agency Don Marketing, says he will have a team picketing Shell's London headquarters for four days a week...
John Donovan, of sales promotion agency Don Marketing, says he will have a team picketing Shell's London headquarters for four days a week distributing a leaflet detailing his company's grievances against the oil giant (MW May 26).   more »
View Article  Shell UK Oil and Don Marketing
Despite meetings between Shell UK Oil and Don Marketing in an attempt to reach settlement in their long-running dispute over alleged theft of promotional concepts (Debrief, 3-63), the parties are agreed on only one point - that the matter should go to court.   more »
View Article  ANNOUNCEMENT IN MAJOR PUBLICATIONS OF DONOVAN LITIGATION AGAINST SHELL
ANNOUNCEMENT IN MAJOR PUBLICATIONS OF DONOVAN LITIGATION AGAINST SHELL   more »
View Article  Marketing Magazine: Donovan brings new Shell writ
Donovan, whose agency, Don Marketing, has already brought three copyright actions against Shell, is suing over a press statement the oil firm released in response to his latest copyright writ.   more »
View Article  Sales Promotion Magazine: Shell in legal row
The allegation follows two previously unpublished out- of-court settlements which were kept secret as part of the agreement reached by the two sides.   more »
View Article  Marketing: Shell broadens base
Shell's Smart card - currently the subject of a High Court dispute over its copyright - is being extended to cover 25 brand partners.   more »
View Article  Marketing Week: SHELL SMART LEGAL NOTICE
John Alfred Donovan (Plaintiff) and Shell UK Limited (Defendant)   more »
View Article  Marketing Week: Don Marketing posts warning about Shell
Don Marketing, the sales promotion agency alleging Shell breached copyright on the idea it used to create the Shell Smart card scheme, has placed an advertisement in this week's Marketing Week warning businesses they may face legal action if they join the scheme.   more »
View Article  Loyalty Magazine: Shell Smart copyright battle gets nastier
During that time Donovan has issued writs against Shell three times, concerning the Nintendo game, the Now Showing promotion and the Make Money game. "In all three cases," says Donovan, "it was the same individual concerned, and in all three cases, Shell settled out of court."   more »
View Article  Daily Telegraph: Donovan's beef with Shell on-line
Donovan is alleging a breach of confidence and breach of contract and has also filed a separate writ for libel. He is talking of "multi-million pound" damages.   more »
View Article  Marketing Week Magazine: RESEARCH: ENSURING THE RIGHT RESPONSE
But it proved the most successful ever pre-Christmas promotion run by Cinzano, generating immense trade support due to the appeal of the new technique.   more »