Month: December 2004

Embrace your nurturing side

Marketing Week

While all of us like a good bargain, we also like to feel nurtured and loved. If we’re not, we are likely to move from brand to brand (“Keeping ’em keen”, MW last week). Maintaining customer loyalty is, therefore, one of the greatest challenges facing today’s marketers. Of course, customer acquisition is important, and many […]

Pokerstars seeks marketing chief to oversee expansion

Marketing Week

Online gaming website Pokerstars is looking for its first European marketing director, who will take charge of the business’s expansion plans. The company plans a raft of pan-European advertising initiatives next year to increase brand awareness. The push will take in television, print and radio activity. Pokerstars is also looking at a range of sponsorship […]

Enterprise IG appoints UK brand engagement head

Marketing Week

Enterprise IG has recruited former Volvo marketing chief Craig Fabian as head of brand engagement at its UK offices. The appointment is part of a raft of management changes at the WPP Group-owned brand and design agency, which also sees former Financial Times senior editor Alan Brew appointed worldwide president, with responsibility for marketing and […]

Giving up the day job

Marketing Week

While some in the marketing world, such as Sir Ridley Scott, use their advertising background as a launchpad for a glittering career in Hollywood, others opt for a quieter, pastoral life.

Gizmondo in bid to steal march on Sony

Marketing Week

Handheld gaming device Gizmondo is to feature e-mail capability as it attempts to gain an early advantage over rivals Sony and Nintendo, which launch their handheld consoles in March. Gizmondo, which carries a location-sensitive advertising medium called Smart Adds (MW August 12), will use GPRS (general packet radio service) technology to allow users to send […]

Mulberry pre-tax profits rise

Marketing Week

Mulberry, the luxury goods company, has reported a pre-tax profit of £17,000 for the six months to September 30 compared with a loss of £615,000 for the same period last year.

Red Cross starts ad agency hunt

Marketing Week

The British Red Cross is looking for an advertising agency for a large project next year. The appointment is being overseen by director of communications Phil Talbot and handled by the AAR. A decision is expected early next year. The brief is to develop a marketing strategy, above-the-line advertising and media-neutral planning for the undisclosed […]