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Google lets site owners ‘host search’

Marketing Week

Google is to allow all website owners to host Google searches on their own sites for the first time, and will share revenue generated from ad clicks with the proprietors. Previously, visitors to sites that had a partnership with Google would be taken to Google’s own site when they wanted to conduct a search. The […]

Costa appoints marketing director

Marketing Week

Costa Coffee, the Whitbread-owned coffee shop chain, has appointed David Hutchinson as marketing director. He replaces John Rogers, who left the chain in April to take the same role at De Vere Hotels (MW April 29). Hutchinson, who takes over next week, joins from Whitbread’s restaurant division where he was marketing director of Brewer’s Fayre […]

Utilities march up and down the hill

Marketing Week

Although Centrica marketing supremo Simon Waugh may not appreciate the historical reminiscence, he bears a passing resemblance to the Grand Old Duke of York. He’s marched his men to the top of the hill, and now he’s marching them down again. The view at the top, it has to be said, was pretty good while […]