Napster UK vice-president and general manager Leanne Sharman is leaving the digital music download company following a restructure. It is centralising its European management and will scale back its UK office as part of the changes. The company has expanded the role of Thorsten Schliesche, the general manager of its German sales team, to include […]
The Honda Racing F1 team is scrapping sponsorship logos from its cars and replacing them with an image of the earth in a bid to boost its environmental credentials. The team is offering its fans the chance to purcase a pixel of the image from the website myearthdream.com, which will help build the image and […]
Innocent Drinks is relaunching its Juicy Water range under the This Water brand. It will support the changes with a 1m marketing spend.
Added Value, the global marketing insight group, has restructured its business to bring the UK into its centralised European business.
Jetix, the kids TV channel, has appointed Jo Sherlock as commercial director for the UK and Nordics.
The incoming president of the Royal College of Physicians has called for a total ban on alcohol advertising – including sports sponsorship. Professor Ian Gilmore says drastic action is needed to curb Britain’s binge-drinking culture. Gilmore believes current rules which state that advertisements must not imply drinking will give someone social or sexual success have […]
Lee Daley, chairman and chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi London, takes up his new position as global commercial director of Manchester United in mid-April. The timing of his departure is interesting in itself, because chief executives normally have to work out an extended period of notice even if, as in this case, they are not moving to a competitor.
WPP, the second largest marketing services group, reported a 15.2% increase in profits for 2006…
Sky is pulling its package of basic channels from Virgin Media after “intensive” negotiations between the two companies broke down this week…
Unicef has handed its media planning and buying account to WWAV Rapp Collins Media without a pitch. The business moves from PHD. The agency will take over the account with immediate effect and will handle all of the charity’s door drops, inserts, press and emergency press, and an insert campaign scheduled for March. WWAV Rapp […]
Ofcom has rubberstamped a decision to ban TV advertising of all food and drink products high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) in and around all programmes that appeal to children under 16. However, it says scheduling restrictions will be phased in for all channels. It published the proposals in November, but launched a second […]
Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners (DLKW) has been retained by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to handle a 5.5m campaign on car tax.
Waitrose, the supermarket chain, is ramping its investment in fair trade offering to coincide with this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight. The retailer plans to double sales of ethical goods over the next year and will accelerate growth by switching a number of core product lines to fair trade. It will also be the first UK supermarket […]
Chrysalis Radio is launching its first cross-station promotion with a campaign to promote London talk station LBC 97.3 on sister station, Heart 106.2. The campaign will break on Heart on February 26 and will also include press and online work. Ads will be voiced by actor Andrew Lincoln and will feature Heart presenters asking the […]
The BBC is axing all of its branded high street shops due to “intense” competition…