Posts under ‘Don Marketing’

ARD TV in Germany – the German equivalent of BBC TV – on Saturday, 21 April, broadcast a feature about me and this website (royaldutchshellplc.com) as part of the EUROPA MAGAZINE programme. By John Donovan ARD TV in Germany – the German equivalent of BBC TV – on Saturday, 21 April, broadcast a feature about [...]

I am described as having a stately stomach and accurately combed hair over a bald head. So we know that the journalist in question is unbiased, fearless, and truthful. By John Donovan On Saturday 17 March 2012 the largest broadsheet German daily national newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, published a whole page article by the journalist Christoph [...]

The article says that the content of an email sent to President Pution in Moscow was explosive and that the leaked information, which cost Shell its majority stake in the Sakhalin 2 project, came from me, John Donovan. By John Donovan On Saturday 17 March 2012 the largest broadsheet German daily national newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, [...]

By John Donovan GRIPE WEB SITES At long last, someone has written an invaluable guide on how ordinary individuals can publicly criticize the rich and powerful, including multinational corporations, by using the Internet. My father and I pioneered the use of websites for exposing Royal Dutch Shell.  Indeed, the author, Robert Eringer, uses our experience [...]

Printed below is a Shell internal document from May 2006 which we assume was prepared by Shell in-house lawyers for the misinformation of Shell senior management. It deliberately paints a false picture, probably to protect Richard Wiseman, the former Shell Legal Director…

ARCHIVE ARTICLE: 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. Case study by Anne-Marie Crawford

U.S. Courts: Shell in deepwater, accused of more IP theft By John Donovan 12 August 2008 Trawling the Internet seeking information about Court cases involving Shell, we stumbled across details of current litigation in the U.S. Courts against Shell International for alleged theft of Intellectual Property. I personally know of several High Court Actions successfully [...]

By John Donovan Obituary of an NBC President, Myron “Mike” Weinblatt (left) with whom I had dealings in 1979 during a presentation with my colleague Don Redhead to the full board of NBC at the Rockefeller Centre in New York. Also present; Irwin S. Segelstein; W Watts Biggers (Buck Biggers – shown right) NBC VP [...]

Royal Dutch Shell Abysmal Track Record In Legal Proceedings with Alfred and John Donovan Saturday 13 August 2005: 13.15 ET: (Updated 13 August 2012) By John Donovan The following is an accurate list of the various proceedings between Shell and the owners of ShellNews.net, Alfred Donovan and John Donovan, commencing just over a decade ago, [...]

Daily Telegraph: The week in which a watchdog came under a heavy Shelling “Sir Philip Watts is hardly going to enjoy being linked with Robert Maxwell but he probably owes the fat fraudster rather more than he realises.” City comment Edited by Neil Collins, City Editor (Filed: 17/09/2004) Sir Philip Watts is hardly going to [...]

Sunday Telegraph: Shell bosses ‘must remain liable for recent blunders’ By Sylvia Pfeifer (Filed: 20/06/2004) Leading shareholders in Royal Dutch, the Netherlands-based arm of Royal Dutch/Shell, are insisting that its directors remain legally liable for the series of blunders that have plunged the oil giant into crisis over the past year. In an unusual move, [...]

Forecourt Trader: Shell action abandoned August 1999 The long-running and acrimonious dispute between Shell UK and sales promotion agency Don Marketing has ended following a statement released by both parties last month. The dispute centred on Don Marketing’s claim that Shell stole its idea for the Smart loyalty scheme. John Donovan, managing director of Don [...]

Shell has settled out of court with John Donovan… Marketing Magazine STOP PRESS Column 28 July 1999 Shell has settled a law suit out of court with John Donovan, marketing director of sales promotion agency Don Marketing, after he abandoned his claim that Shell had stolen the idea for its Smart loyalty scheme from his agency [...]

Shell claim is settled: Bury Free Press 9 July 1999 BURY FREE PRESS Friday, July 9, 1999 Shell claim is settled A DAVID and Goliath battle between a Bury St Edmunds businessman and oil giant Shell has ended in stalemate after both sides agreed an out-of-court settlement. John Donovan, 52, was suing Shell claiming the [...]

Stalemate for marketing firm’s ‘stolen’ idea claim: East Anglian Daily Times 7 July 1999 East Anglian Daily Times Wednesday, July 7, 1999 Stalemate for marketing firm’s ‘stolen’ idea claim STALEMATE John Donovan, from Bradfield Combust, sued Shell over a promotion he said was his idea. But yesterday his claim, and the firm’s counter suit, were [...]