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Dyke: ‘Invest in marketing’

Marketing Week

BBC director-general Greg Dyke has said that the marketing of television programmes will require major investment over the next decade as more viewers take up digital TV and use modern technology, such as personal video recorders and broadband, to watch programmes whenever they want to. Speaking last week at the Royal Television Society’s conference in […]

Toy maker Halsall promotes marketer to oversee expansion

Marketing Week

Toy and gift manufacturer and distributor Halsall International has appointed its first marketing director as part of its expansion strategy and new marketing focus. Andrew Coplestone has been promoted to marketing director from group marketing manager, a position he has held for the past 18 months. He joined the company eight years ago and was […]

Disability charity offers marketing advice service

Marketing Week

Disability charity Leonard Cheshire is launching a service to help companies include disability in their marketing strategies. The Visability Programme will also give companies guidance about meeting the requirements of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which comes into full force in October 2004. The charity says that one in four people are either disabled […]