A day in the life of Christiaan Lette
Marketing WeekName: Christiaan Lette Company: Publicis Job title: Campaign manager Procter & Gamble, Healthcare Western Europe
Name: Christiaan Lette Company: Publicis Job title: Campaign manager Procter & Gamble, Healthcare Western Europe
STA Travel UK has appointed Celia Pronto to the newly created role of marketing director following a restructure of its operations. Pronto joins the company from InterContinental Hotels Group where she was regional marketing manager for the UK and Ireland, Middle East and Africa regions. In her new role Pronto will head a 17-strong team, […]
Name: Phil Chapman Company: T-Mobile UK Job title: Director of Marketing
Each week in association with retail and marketing consultancy Pragma, MarketingWeek.co.uk looks at a high-profile brand, assessing its performance against a range of criteria and offering suggestions to improve its overall score. Marks for each section are given out of five stars, while the overall rating is given at the end of the review.
Green & Black’s, the luxury chocolate brand, is understood to have appointed Starcom to handle its 2m media planning and buying account.
Phones4U, the mobile phone retailer, has poached Brendan Sweeney from John Lewis to be group commercial director. Sweeney will slot in alongside group marketing director Jim Slater, with both men reporting to Phones4U chief executive Tim Whiting. At John Lewis, Sweeney was commercial director with a seat on the board. He has been replaced at […]
T-Mobile UK has poached O2 marketer Derek Williamson to become head of business marketing. In his new role, Williamson, who was part of the corporate industry sector marketing and business marketing teams during his time at O2, will be responsible for delivering mobile voice and data products and services to SME and corporate customers and […]
Bartle Bogle Hegarty is attempting to gain a foothold in the online social networking boom by launching a “virtual” advertising agency.
Cruise operator DFDS Seaways has handed its 1.5m marketing and advertising business to full-service agency Robson Brown. The Newcastle-based shop, which also has offices in Manchester and London, won the account following a competitive pitch. It was previously held by a number of London-based agencies, including RMG Connect. Robson Brown will handle the company’s national […]
Cheapflights, the international travel price search and comparison website, has appointed former British Airways marketer Joe Sikorsky to its top UK marketing role. Sikorsky joins as head of UK marketing and will report to commercial director Rob Passmore. He previously spent 11 years at BA, most recently as head of digital, where he managed the […]
Vodafone is taking on the likes of Nokia and Motorola by launching a range of own-brand handsets. The Vodafone 710 is the first handset manufactured for the mobile giant by China’s Huawei Technologies following a strategic alliance signed by the two companies in February this year. The phone will be the first of a range […]
Draft FCB has appointed Nigel Jones and John Minnec as co-presidents of the newly merged agency in the UK. Minnec, who was previously managing director of Draft London, will be responsible for client servicing, personnel, new business and marketing, while Jones, the former chief executive of FCB London, will look after strategy, operations, output and […]
EMAP has restructured the Big City network of local radio stations from two operating regions to seven and has appointed new regional managing directors. The network has been extended to include the Magic AM stations, it already includes the former Scottish Radio Holdings stations in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Travis Baxter will remain managing director […]
SABMiller, owner of Peroni and Pilsner Urquell, has poached Procter & Gamble marketing director Chris Ritchie to lead its European marketing operations.
Potential sponsors for the 2012 London Olympic Games will start tendering for partner status from next month. The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is looking for sponsors in six sectors: banking, insurance, utilities (electricity and natural gas), oil and gas, automotives and telecommunications. Companies in the banking and insurance […]