Burger King International has appointed Andrew Brent as chief marketing officer. He joins from AS Watson, a major Asian retail and manufacturing company, where he held a variety of marketing roles.
Ann Francke, the former Boots marketer, has been offered a job as chief marketing officer at Yell.
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson (below) has ruled himself out of the race to become the next director-general of the BBC. The channel has just reported pre-tax profits of &£45m for the year to the end of the December, up from &£16.5m in 2002, but group turnover was unchanged at &£770m. Revenue from advertising […]
Littlewoods Home Shopping has appointed Sarah Cheetham as marketing director of Littlewoods All-inclusive catalogue in place of Brian Lunt, who the company says is “considering his options”.
PC World is testing an in-store radio service in 15 of its stores.
Former Carlton marketing director for sales Fran Cassidy is to leave ITV after failing to secure a place in the new marketing structure. The last marketing role has been filled at ITV Sales, with Tamsin Denbigh taking the trade marketing position as head of sales customer communications. Denbigh reports to director of customer relationship management […]
Diageo is hunting for a marketing director to handle the Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker and Baileys brands. The appointee will report to marketing director GB Andy Fennell.
Lever Fabergé is to launch an all-white variant of its flagship Lynx personal care range called Below Zero in a departure from Lynx’s traditionally black brand identity.
Accantia has extended its Simple personal care range with lines of body care and baby care products, as well as additional deodorant and cleansing wipes.
The Consumers’ Association has welcomed the introduction of new European Union rules that give consumers more information about the use of genetically modified ingredients.
Nokia has recruited Rachel Wright, a marketing manager at Hutchison’s third-generation network 3, to run its new UK multimedia division and turn around poor sales of the N-Gage phone and games console. Nokia refused to confirm Wright’s appointment, but it is understood that she has already left 3 and will take up her new role […]
According to a recent report by Verdict Research, our non-food spending has increased by 53 per cent since 1998, whereas the uplift in household grocery spending has been a rather more leisurely 13 per cent over the same period. Could this trend, paradoxically, be connected with the recent dismal performance of Boots, the market-shaking disappointment […]
Britvic Soft Drinks has axed Barrett Cernis from its agency roster and redistributed £2m of advertising business between Clemmow Hornby Inge (CHI) and Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH). Barrett Cernis previously handled the premium carbonates portfolio of Amé, Purdey’s and Aqualibra, and Britvic juices portfolio, including the J2O brand. The agency worked with Britvic for three […]
Why did the cow cross the road? To get to the Mel Brooks film, of course. And hold up the traffic on Manchester’s busy Deansgate, leaving local motorists wondering what kind of traffic-calming measures the Greater Manchester police force had dreamt up. The real reason is somewhat beefier. Property company Bruntwood organised the stunt to […]
The British economic miracle should be lauded, so let’s hear it for the brave hair designers and manicurists that have made it possible