Kantar appoints Mandy Pooler and Lucy Gill
Marketing WeekKantar has appointed the former Mindshare chief executive Mandy Pooler and RMS managing director Lucy Gill as development directors.
Kantar has appointed the former Mindshare chief executive Mandy Pooler and RMS managing director Lucy Gill as development directors.
IPC Connect, the women’s weekly magazines publisher, has appointed Tammi Iley as publisher of Now. She was previously publisher of NME at IPC Ignite!, where she will be succeeded by Emily Hutchings, former associate publisher of Uncut and Loaded.
Helmut Panke, credited with turning BMW around after its ill-fated acquisition of Rover, is retiring. He will step down as chief executive on September 1 and will be replaced by head of production Norbert Reithofer.
Leslie Dach, a former vice-chairman of PR outfit Edelman, is to join Wal-Mart as executive vice-president for corporate affairs and government relations. Dach has been an advisor to US President Bill Clinton and 2004 White House candidate John Kerry.
Bill Morrow, one of Vodafone’s most senior executives, is leaving the company to return to the US for “urgent family reasons”. Morrow, who was recently promoted to head European operations, was one of beleaguered chief executive Arun Sarin’s closest allies.
BP chief executive Lord Browne has confirmed he is standing down when he reaches the company retirement age of 60 in February 2008. The news came as the oil giant unveiled record $6.1bn (&£3.29bn) profits.
Speculation that Abbey is to axe its online banking service Cahoot as a separate brand has been fuelled after the company revealed that it has scrapped the internet bank’s independent use of ad agencies and that it will now rely on the parent company’s roster of agencies. It has been suggested that marketing for Cahoot […]
Hamleys, the toy retailer, has hired former Sears marketer Stella Hartley as acting head of marketing. Hartley is understood to have recently joined the company as an independent consultant to help with its marketing strategy. It is not clear whether the position will be made permanent. The marketing director role has been vacant since Adrian […]
Cook Islands Tourism Corporation UK is launching a new branding campaign for the South Pacific nation that is due to break later this year. The work is being rolled out across the UK with a new strapline, “Cook Islands, live differently”. The line replaces “Your recipe for true paradise”, a tagline that both tourist board […]
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that a Pot Noodle ad showing Welsh miners “digging” noodles out of the ground is not racist. The ASA launched an investigation after receiving 81 complaints from consumers angered by the ad, which shows Pot Noodle being mined in South Wales. Pot Noodle agency Mother says that the […]
If the extravagance of a car launch offers an insight into its importance to a manufacturer then the roll-out of the new Corsa is crucial to Vauxhall. The car was flown along the River Thames by helicopter last week, before being unveiled to 1
SunnyD is considering launching a new iced-tea drink in the UK targeting both teenagers and adults. The product – SunnyD Fruit & Tea – is already being rolled out in France and Spain.
23red has launched a new anti-ageing skincare range called Pro-ferm for Vitalize Health Products. The agency created the brand name and the packaging for the range, which will be rolled out exclusively at Space.NK.
Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy has created a new campaign for Subaru to promote its free fuel offer. Press, direct marketing and online activity are supporting a television ad, entitled “Driveway”.
DFS, the furniture retailer, is understood to have moved the majority of its £60m creative account from PWLC to Uber.