Trinity Mirror has acquired Financial Jobs Online Limited, the owner of GAAPweb.com, the UK’s leading online recruitment site serving the accountancy and finance sector. It follows the acquisition of Smartnewhomes.com last month.
Morgan Stanley is reviewing its UK consumer advertising account, worth almost £20m, following the end of a 17-year relationship with incumbent agency Leo Burnett in the US. It is not known whether Leo Burnett will repitch in the UK. A decision is not expected until the end of the year.
Levi Strauss has appointed Tim Larcombe as general manager of UK & Ireland following his departure from Adidas last week. Larcombe replaces Matthew Mycock, who has held the post at Levi Strauss since February 2003.
Skechers, the fashion footwear brand, is seeking a media buying agency following the growth of the brand in the UK since its launch in 2001. The company retains Media Insight for outdoor, print and television advertising.
COI Communications is expected to kick-start the review of its estimated £135m media strategy and planning roster in October. The incumbent roster agencies include The Ingram Partnership, Mediaedge:CIA, Manning Gottlieb OMD, Naked, PHD, Starcom and Zenith Optimedia. The statutory contract was first established in 2001 when the COI felt the need to take control of […]
Fashion watch brand Fossil and computer games publisher Atari are to launch a limited-edition range of retro watches featuring Atari game graphics. The range launches in the UK next month. The watches are primarily aimed at male “old-school” gamers, but Atari hopes that the association with Fossil will attract a broader and younger group of […]
Hand Picked Hotels, which runs 14 country house hotels, has appointed Nick Read as its marketing director. Read joins the company from Whitbread, where he worked as UK head of marketing for Costa Coffee. He was a brand director for hotel chain Premier Lodge.
Scottish Widows has appointed Barclaycard marketer Mike Hoban as director of customer and brand. He takes over from Rob Rees, who has covered the role for more than a year (MW July 15, 2004). Hoban, the head of brand at Barclays-owned Barclaycard, will start his new job in October and will report to Nathan Moss, […]
Carling has teamed up with Firebox.com, the online gadget and gifts retailer, for an on-pack promotion this autumn. As part of the joint promotion, Carling is running an outdoor advertising campaign and point-of-purchase activity, as well featuring ads on the Carling.com website. A range of Carling packs, for both canned and bottled lager, will feature […]
Cable & Wireless is to buy rival Energis for £780m, despite a higher 11th-hour bid from Thus.
Craik Jones has named Mark Cripps as its new head of digital.
Henkel is teaming up with Lycra to launch a range of Schwarzkopf hair products.
Football Association chief executive Brian Barwick says the body is considering mounting a bid for England to host the 2018 World Cup. Next summer’s World Cup will be held in Germany and the competition is not expected to return to Europe for 12 years.
Vivendi Universal Games has been slammed by the Advertising Standards Authority over a viral video and e-mail campaign to promote its PlayStation2 game Cold Winter. The ruling is significant because the ASA’s remit does not normally cover viral advertising. However, because the viral was distributed by Vivendi as an e-mail, the ASA has jurisdiction. Had […]
Intercontinental Hotels Group has appointed Jenifer Zeigler as senior vice-president, global brand management for Intercontinental Hotels & Resorts. Before joining IHG in 2000, Zeigler held marketing roles at Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble.