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By John Donovan

Below is a compilation of information put together for certain third parties. It all relates to our involvement in the Sakhalin-2 project which led to Shell's loss of its ownership stake and the resignation of David Greer. ...

Comment received from "appalled Shell insider": email address supplied

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:24:35 +0000

Comment received from "appalled Shell insider": email address supplied

Let me share some more of unethical practices inside Shell. They don't even spare their employees!

Post 2004 scandal, Shell initiated a massive corporate-wide transformation Program called Downstream-One. It is an ...

In the wake of Shell "lies corruption, despoliation and death": Andrew Rowell in his remarkable article "Unloveable Shell, the Goddess of Oil"

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:17:55 +0000

By John Donovan

In view of the overnight news from Nigeria it seems an appropriate time to publish for the first time on the Internet the most dramatic masterpiece about Shell and its atrocious track record, especially in Nigeria, that ...

Will Shell's intergalactic experiment pay off?

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:33:42 +0100

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.

Deaths on Oil Platform return to haunt Shell

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:57:45 +0100
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.

SUPER MARKETING: Cinzano roulette could set a trend

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:23:59 +0100
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.

Marketing Magazine: The play's the thing

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:19:56 +0100
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.

Shell Press Release for Shell Mastermind Promotion

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:10:53 +0100
John Smeddle, Sales Manager, Shell UK Oil said: "The success of Make Money, which we launched in February, is now a matter of record.

Marketing Week LETTERS page: Scratch ‘n’ miff

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:07:23 +0100
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".

Sales Promotion Magazine: Shell launches Star Trek scratchcard game

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:04:14 +0100
In the wake 'of Collect & Select, Shell has launched a new scratch card promotion under the banner 'Star Trek - The Game'.

Promotions & Incentives Magazine: Warp factor ten, Captain!

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:53:31 +0100
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'.

Promotions & Incentives Magazine: National lottery takes its chances

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:08:25 +0100
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.

PROMOTIONS & INCENTIVES: UP TO SCRATCH

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:59:55 +0100
John Donovan, managing director of Don Marketing, an agency specialising in promotional games, says he has supplied more than a billion game pieces...

Don Marketing, the sales promotion company in a legal dispute with Shell...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:56:37 +0100
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.

Forecourt News: NOTICE TO SHELL DEALERS!

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:48:42 +0100
We have issued a number of High Court Writs against Shell...

SHELL CORPORATE CONSCIENCE PRESSURE GROUP

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:41:16 +0100
Membership Recruitment advert published in Forecourt News and Forecourt Trader, February 1995

Don Marketing and oil giant Shell UK's latest round in their continuing legal battle...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:33:24 +0100
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...

Marketing Week Magazine: Shell faces libel action as Don's founder issues writ

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:26:56 +0100
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.

Shell has confirmed that its senior management will hold talks with Don Marketing

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:16:46 +0100
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.

John Donovan, of sales promotion agency Don Marketing, says he will have a team picketing Shell's London headquarters for four days a week...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:11:39 +0100
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).

Shell UK Oil and Don Marketing

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:09:03 +0100
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.

ANNOUNCEMENT IN MAJOR PUBLICATIONS OF DONOVAN LITIGATION AGAINST SHELL

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:44:47 +0100
ANNOUNCEMENT IN MAJOR PUBLICATIONS OF DONOVAN LITIGATION AGAINST SHELL

Marketing Magazine: Donovan brings new Shell writ

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:37:15 +0100
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.