Forrest Outdoor Media has appointed Sarah Wheatman, a former head of advertising and media at digital screen specialist I-vu, as sales manager. Wheatman has also previously worked for Carlson. Forrest runs large format banner campaigns, backlit sites and the Glasgow City Screen concept.
Haygarth has handed the job of creative director to Martin Steel.
Future, the publisher of consumer magazines, has appointed Clare Dove, former director of advertising for the Mirror Group Newspapers, as London director of sales.
BT has appointed C4 International sales manager Alison Sainsbury-Stack as head of programme acquisitions at its Television Services division. The division is developing delayed-time, on-demand programming for broadband customers.
InterContinental Hotels Group has appointed Simon Tempest to market Egyptian properties to European markets. Tempest, a hotel consultant for the company, has been given the title of European leisure representative.
Unilever has appointed Richard Taylor as global brand director for its male bodycare brand Lynx. Taylor, who has been at Unilever since joining as a graduate, is being brought in from the company’s Latin America division.
Independent food retailers are facing tough trading conditions in the run-up to the festive period as the major supermarkets slash prices to stimulate pre-Christmas sales while some manufacturers are struggling to meet demand. It is understood that pressure on the independent sector has increased as the multiple retailers have cut prices and introduced promotions on […]
Citibank, the American banking giant, is scrapping the European, Middle East and Africa marketing headquarters of its retail arm. It is not known whether team members, who are based in London, will be offered other roles. A company spokesman has confirmed the restructure is taking place and says the marketing operation is being “decentralised”, to […]
Babyliss is launching a home tanning product that uses the same technology as high-street tanning salons. The Babyliss Beach Bronze product will be available in Boots and Argos in time for Christmas, and is to be supported with a &£2m television campaign created by Beechwood, with media planning and buying through MediaCom. The Beach Bronze […]
SC Johnson and Procter & Gamble are gearing up for a battle over control of the UK’s £300m air-freshening market.
The Advertising Standards Authority has told children’s charity the NSPCC that it cannot show its animated television campaign before the watershed. The ASA made the ruling after a number of complaints about the Saatchi & Saatchi-created ads, which feature speech bubbles that help children escape or avoid abuse. The ads, part of the Talk ‘Til […]
The Government’s nascent plans to introduce a National Curriculum for children from birth to five years of age may have met with hoots of derision, but for some the pre-school category is a booming sector. Companies are aiming to capitalise on the claimed educational benefits of toys, and V-Tech is among those in the vanguard […]
SCA Hygiene is ploughing £8m into the relaunch of its Velvet toilet paper brand with a new campaign designed to take on market leader Andrex.
Since Barclays acquired The Woolwich in 2000, the former building society has dipped below the radar in terms of marketing and advertising, and has shed a quarter of its branches. However, after being repositioned as its parent company’s mortgage subsidiary, Woolwich – now shorn of its “The” prefix – is set to raise its profile […]
Wunderman has been awarded the Turkish Tourist Office’s creative and media planning and buying accounts for Europe and America, worth up to $50m (&£29.1m). The agency, based in Istanbul, has already started work on a new campaign set to break in January next year. It won the business after a global review of the tourist […]