Former Pizza Hut marketing director Ann Elliott is to join Beefeater Restaurant & Pub in the same role, replacing Mike Tye who is moving to Welcome Break. Elliott joins the 280-strong, Whitbread-owned chain on May 1, leaving the post of field operations director for Whitbread Pub Partnership in the North. She was Pizza Hut marketing […]
Accounting system specialist Pegasus Software has developed a contact management system for sales and marketing departments. This is Pegasus’ first sales and marketing system. The company claims to have achieved a first in that the new Windows-based product, Pegasus Connection, combines contact tracking functionality with the ability to link directly into other business applications including […]
British Sky Broadcasting has restructured its subscriber marketing department with the appointment of David Thatcher as customer marketing director. Thatcher, who joined BSkyB as direct marketing manager last May, replaces Chris Townsend who takes on marketing for Sky’s planned digital television system. Sky is planning to launch digital services through the Astra satellite in late […]
Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages has taken marketing control of the Cadbury Schweppes trademark in the UK. CCSB – a joint venture between Cadbury Schweppes and Coca-Cola – is breaking with its traditional role as a bottler, distributor and trad
Sunday colour supplements are read, appreciated and enjoyed by around 80 per cent of Sunday newspaper readers, according to research conducted by RSGB for the Mirror Group and two agencies. Mirror Group commissioned the research to show that Sunday colour supplements were suffering a dearth of branded advertising because of a fashion for review sections […]
EURO RSCG Wnek Gosper has pipped Bainsfair Sharkey Trott to the Aero USA sports shoe account, worth ú3.2m over three years. Aero USA had originally planned to launch the brand in the UK using Saatchi & Saatchi subsidiary Wavelength Creative Marketing, but split from the agency after disagreements over payments (MW February 10). Knight Leagas […]
Though banks are becoming more efficient by laying off staff, most customers have yet to feel the benefits that new technology can bring.
Eastman Kodak has confirmed it is talking to a number of agencies about a new worldwide corporate brand advertising campaign aimed at making more use of the Kodak name. Chief executive George Fisher revealed a rough video of the proposed campaign at the launch of Kodak’s digital cameras. The video – “the picture is changing” […]
In Focus UK has launched the LitePro 580 LCD projector, which it claims is the smallest of its kind to offer true data/video. It can display photo-realistic colour images and In Focus says its is ideal for business presentations. Electrohome Europe has also launched an LCD projector, called ShowStar. The product is a single-lens, high-brightness […]
The confusion for agencies seeking European Commission work is compounded by the plethora of Directorate Generals which make the decisions. Composed of civil servants from around the European Union, but based in Brussels, the 23 DGs cover everything from agriculture to audio-visual policy, energy to transport. Because of internal political sensitivities agencies have to make […]
I know it was quiet last week, but you really should not adopt “tabloid tactics” to drum up stories where none exist. I refer to your story about BhS dropping ad star Sylvester “BhS review signals end for ad star” (MW March 31). First, BhS is not reviewing Sylvester – we are. This is an […]
National Lottery operator Camelot will allow outside companies to bid to run new lottery games, says marketing director Jon Kinsey. Under the terms of the National Lottery set by the Government, regulator Oflot can grant a licence to a new operator to run a game in co-operation with Camelot. It had been assumed that such […]
Burger King head of UK marketing Pat Griffin has left the fast-food giant, as it limbers up for a major advertising assault on rival McDonald’s. Griffin, who also handled marketing for Spain, is leaving to join a marketing consultancy. No reason was given for her departure. The company is starting to look for a replacement. […]
Butterfield Day Devito Hockney has picked up the Emirates airline worldwide advertising account, worth a claimed ú9m, after a final battle against Mellors Reay & Partners. The Dubai airline ap-proached six shops before Christmas last year (MW January 27). TBWA, Leagas Delaney, Simons Palmer Denton Clemmow & Johnson and D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles were […]
Saab GB has parted company with its two most senior marketing executives following criticism of its Swedish parent’s marketing strategy (MW March 10). General marketing manager Geoff Acton and advertising manager Debi Wadsted left the company at the end of last week. The two are the architects of Saab GB’s present ú4m ad campaign – […]