Credit and debit cardholders say they are aware of the February 15 deadline which has been set for compulsory use of PIN numbers by shoppers. But while 90 per cent know about the switchover, some 2.8 million UK residents remain unaware, according to a survey by ICM on behalf of The Credit Card Awards.
Marks & Spencer is extending its Simply Food chain to 171 stores after agreeing a deal to acquire 28 stores on a leasehold basis from Iceland Foods.
Tesco delivered record group sales over Christmas, up 11.5 per cent in the seven weeks to January 7. The retailer says “one-stop” food and non-food shopping at its 117 Tesco Extra stores was “particularly popular”.
Subway has appointed former Burger King marketer Paul Reynish as marketing director for UK and Ireland. He left his role as marketing director at the fast food chain last April. The company has also appointed Tony Pace, formerly group managing director at McCann-Erickson in New York, as senior vice-president.
Carphone Warehouse has poached NTL marketer David Thatcher to run TalkTalk, its fixed-line telecoms business. Thatcher replaces Max Alexander, who left to become chief executive of Thomson Directory.
Research in Motion, the company behind Blackberry, has appointed former Orange marketer Kristof Fahy as European brand director. Fahy, who was head of advertising at Orange, left the company last year.
Nestlé Purina UK and Ireland marketing director Jeremy Caplin is leaving the company to join dunnhumby as head of media. He takes up his new role in April.
Bentley has appointed Lexus’s European chief Stuart McCullough as global sales and marketing director. McCullough replaces Adrian Hallmark, who left the company last year to run Volkswagen in the US.
Inbev marketing director Phil Rumbol, who oversees the Stella Artois brand in the UK, is leaving the company after ten years to join Cadbury Trebor Bassett as marketing director for Great Britain & Ireland.
Toyota GB has appointed Shimpei Kobayashi as chairman. He will be responsible for all sales and marketing activity for the Toyota and Lexus marques in the UK. Kobayashi succeeds Ken Kuroki, who held the role for five years but has moved to a post at the company’s head office in Japan. Kobayashi has been with […]
Masterfoods may stop producing 100g grab bags of its bite-size products, such as Maltesers. It is understood to be one of a number of plans aimed at reinvigorating the sharing range. The move would see the company’s full portfolio of sharing bite-size packs moved into “pouch” packaging. Masterfoods has been repackaging brands such as Maltesers, […]
UK marketers remain more confident about their own company’s prospects than the outlook for their industries as a whole, according to the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s (IPA) Bellwether Confidence Index, exclusive to Marketing Week. Amid a general downturn in budgets, the quarterly survey reveals that 41 per cent of marketers are more upbeat about […]
Crookes Healthcare is ploughing £5m into the repositioning of its Clearasil brand as an everyday skincare range rather than a medicated brand.
VisitLondon is launching an advertising campaign in Japan featuring a new brand icon that could be used to promote the capital across Asia. The new character is a white rabbit loosely based on the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, and has been nicknamed Usagi – the Japanese word for rabbit. It will […]
The death of king-size chocolate bars was hailed as one of the first successes in the UK’s battle against obesity. Both Cadbury Trebor Bassett and Masterfoods unveiled plans to axe their king-size bars to coincide with the launch of the Food and Drink Federation’s (FDF) Manifesto on Food and Health in September 2004. But 15 […]