Alan Sugar is setting up a new Amstrad division to sell DIY beauty appliances. Sugar, founder of Amstrad, chairman of Tottenham Hotspur FC and PC-to-phone entrepreneur, is understood to have invested millions of pounds in the new operation.
A war of words has broken out between sales promotion trade bodies this week, after The Sales Promotion Consultants Association published an attack on the Institute of Sales Promotion. In a newsletter called Beyond Redemption, Malcolm Davies, managing director of sales promotion consultancy Coaxis, attacked the ISP for being “conservative and insular” and “among the […]
Rizla, the cigarette paper supplier is recruiting a former Roth- mans executive as sales and marketing director. He will spearhead a high-profile marketing campaign. Graham Bolt, formerly an account controller at Rothmans, replaces Chris Gaunt who left in June to “pursue other business interests”. Bolt will also oversee the appointment of an above-the-line advertising agency, […]
Dry-cleaning chain Sketchley is reshuffling senior management responsibilities after dropping its managing director Elizabeth Fagan. Fagan was asked to leave the company last month. Sketchley says it chose not to announce the decision because she was not a board member. Fagan’s role will be taken over by John Jackson, former Body Shop managing director, who […]
When the UK marriage of Carlsberg and Tetley was completed in December 1992 there were three key players at the new company who gave the impression that the then Allied-Lyons held the upper hand. Last week, Liz Morgan, marketing director and the only surviving member of the triumvirate, left the beer company. She has been […]