Whitbread-owned Costa Coffee is seeking a head of marketing to replace Nick Read, who has been handling the role temporarily. Read, who has previously worked as a marketer at Premier Lodge, is planning to leave Whitbread in July, although it is not known whether he has a job to go to. Read was brought into […]
The Marketing Week Effectiveness Awards’ entries deadline is being extended to June 3. The judging panel includes Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP; Simon Kelner, editor-in-chief of the Independent; and David Magliano, director of marketing for the London 2012 bid. To enter, please log on to marketingweek.co.uk/ awards05 or telephone 020 7970 4772.
Hats off to Mason Zimbler managing director Mark Mason, who last week took his girlfriend on a romantic charity balloon flight across the Channel. Held safely aloft by a huge volume of hot air, Mason runs a marketing agency. Back in the basket, however, our hero put a well-laid plan into action. Going down on […]
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo continue their battle to win over the world’s gamers. Will the PS3 keep Sony on top, or has Xbox 360 got the edge?
Apax Partners, the venture capital company that counts Greg Dyke as an adviser, has made the shortlist to buy BBC Broadcast, the corporation’s transmission and branding business. The BBC is said to have whittled down 18 preliminary bids, which were made after it put the division up for auction last December, to just four. BBC […]
The ears of Nigel Pickard, ITV director of programmes, will be burning after Luke Johnson, Channel 4 chairman – and never a man to mince his words – laid into him at a recent television summit. Or at least, it was him Johnson had in his sights when he lambasted ITV as a ‘profoundly timid […]
Telefonica UK head of marketing William Mackay has left the company after the British arm of the Spanish telecoms giant was bought by Manchester internet firm NetServices.
Marketers are shocked at the outrage that KFC’s Singing Soul ad has caused among viewers. But in the light of Tony Blair’s ‘respect’ campaign, advertisers could be witnessing a ‘zero tolerance’ zeitgeist in society, and they may have to heed i
LOVE, the Manchester-based agency, has created a campaign and identity for Alton Towers. It aims to promote the theme park as a venue to celebrate special occasions.
Vodafone has announced that it has signed up 2.4 million subscribers to its 3G service and reported a three per cent rise in pre-tax profits to &£10.9bn in the year to March 31.
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The Number, owner of the 118 118 directory service, has appointed Mark Horgan as chief executive. Previously he was retail sales operations director at MFI. He replaces Chris Moss, who will become European chairman.
I write in response to Sean Roberts’ letter, “Scratchcard menace anything but phantom” (MW May 19). Camelot has a duty to maximise returns to good causes in a socially responsible way – and it is a duty we take very seriously. It is simply not in our interests for either Camelot or its network of […]
Suki Thompson, in her article “How content has become the key to advertisers’ happiness” (MW May 19), complains about all types of agencies bombarding her with ideas on “branded content”. Advertising, media and PR agencies, film and record companies are mentioned, as well as content publishers and digital specialists. Has Suki missed Jonathan Harwood’s excellent […]
Jo Kenrick has been given the title marketing director at Camelot and takes on responsibility for product development and profit and loss for scratchcards.