Continental Airlines appoints marketing manager

French Connection, the fashion retailer, has reported an eight per cent decrease in sales for the six months to July 31. It also saw profits plummet to &£5.1m, compared to &£16.2m for the same period last year.

Your analysis looking at the appointment of three more regional agencies to the COI roster was correct in its assertion that the emerging strength of out-of-London agencies is “gaining a head of steam” (MW September 1). The Marketing Communications Consultants Association’s (MCCA) 2005 Charge-out Rate Survey, released in June, highlighted that the perceived view of […]

Centura Foods, the RHM Foods-owned company, has appointed former Allied Domecq marketer Mark Doorbar as its marketing director. He replaces Katherine Rose, who quit in May after less than a year in the role (MW May 12). Doorbar has been working with Centura since May on an interim basis, but has now been appointed as […]