Procter & Gamble is to downgrade half of its marketing directors to the more junior position of associate marketing director, as part of a worldwide reorganisation initiated by global marketing officer Jim Stengel.
Bausch & Lomb, the eye care specialist, has promoted UK marketing director Anthony John to the newly created role of commercial director for pharmaceuticals, as part of a wider restructuring of its core business areas.
Publicis London head of strategic planning Lucy Purdy has stepped down. Planners will now report to joint chief executive Derek Morris.
McCann-Erickson has launched a £1m campaign to promote MSN Messenger. The campaign features radio and online advertising.
CNBC is considering taking legal action against the Independent Television Commission over its decision to reprimand the channel for broadcasting a TV series on the single currency that had been funded with European Commission grants.
According to Oyster Partners, staff at new media agencies are not renowned for their dress sense. So to help them, Oyster has come up with “RFID” (radio frequency identity) tags, smaller than a grain of rice and requiring no external power source. One of its clients already uses the tags to track clothes through its […]
This week VisitBritain launches, promoting Britain and England to domestic and overseas tourists. But, with separate bodies for Scotland and Wales, marketing of the UK appears confused and disparate. By Lucy Barrett
The BBC is expected to take its dispute with BSkyB over satellite channel slots to the Independent Television Commission.
Jazz FM has a new advertising campaign, due to break on April 7. It has been created by Kitcatt Nohr.
Many of us buy white goods only when the old models break down. Can manufacturers alter the low priority attached to branding? asks Caroline Parry
Viewers of last summer’s “reality” hit, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, will remember how veteran DJ and eventual winner Tony Blackburn scorned fellow vegetarian Uri Geller for having principles as flexible as his cutlery. Geller’s crime was to agree to eat various insects and grubs in order to win food for the […]
Nokia has appointed Grey Worldwide to handle the $100m (£63.4m) global launch of its new gaming mobile phone, N-Gage.
EMAP has taken over sales for the Student Broadcast Network (SBN). It will handle all airtime sales and commercial deals for the network, which has 53 subscriber student radio stations. SBN was set up about six years ago and is owned by Campus Media. It has 96,000 monthly listeners across the UK, according to independent […]
The Financial Services Authority has appointed Callum McCarthy as chairman to replace Sir Howard Davies. McCarthy is chairman and chief executive of Ofgem…
Clownfish, the youth marketing agency, has been appointed to handle below-the-line marketing and PR for fashion brand UFO Contemporary.