Month: April 2006

Mirror acting head fills Hattam’s gap

Marketing Week

Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) has appointed Tim Anderson as acting head of marketing in an effort to stabilise the marketing team following marketing director Will Hattam’s departure earlier this year. But it is not clear whether Anderson will remain in the position permanently as the top marketing job seems to be a straight fight between […]

Lloyds TSB merges card and consumer divisions

Marketing Week

Lloyds TSB has made more changes to its embattled senior marketing team with head of card programmes Katrina Cliffe taking the new role of consumer banking marketing and communications director. It comes after the bank decided to merge the card programmes operation into consumer banking, a move attributed to the sale of Goldfish to Morgan […]

Underage gambling? Very much a lottery

Marketing Week

Sometimes you should be careful what you wish for. Andy Lawford, communications director of the hitherto rather obscure football betting site ThePool.com, must have thought he was on to a certain winner with his new ad campaign, which featured a no-holds barred exposé of an apparent loophole in UK gambling laws. And so he was, […]