27 Feb 2009
It is understood that Boulton, who joined HSBC in 2005, is close to
signing to a new job. The bank has made no comment on finding a
replacement. In his absence, marketing will be headed by Carlos
Wanderley, the UK head of customer propositions at HSBC. ...
LONDON - The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to halve its funding of British sport by the end...The bank will end its sponsorship of the Williams Formula One motor-racing team at the end of next year when its current contract expires. It also plans to review its ties with sports stars ...
rugby union championship for a further four years in a deal worth 20m. The bank is expected ...
26 Feb 2009
| by Nadia Ghani
LONDON - The Royal Bank of Scotland, which today reported a record annual loss of £24.1bn, has cut...Normal 0 The Williams Formula One team is the biggest casualty, losing 10m promised by the bank after it decided to cease all F1 sponsorship, including trackside advertising by 2010. Other ...
, after the struggling bank came under fire for its spending on sponsorship deals, despite having been ...
24 Feb 2009
| by Sara Kimberley
Global Direct Media's founder Jim Banks will continue to head the affiliate network and will work closely with Unanimis' lead generation business. Global Direct Media will retain its name for the next six to eight months, before being folded into the Unanimis business. The acquisition is aimed at strengthening ...
LONDON - HSBC Private Bank is relaunching its digital brand identity through WPP-owned full...The bank has moved away from its current positioning of "Assume nothing" and moved closer to the parent HSBC brand, adopting the tagline The world's private bank'. The online ad campaign is based on real stories about providing connections for HSBC Private Bank s clients. As the HSBC PB brand campaign ...
this through, saying any such launch was a 'long way off'. Following its buyout of Royal Bank of Scotland's 50 ...
Services Authority granting it a full banking licence late last year, a Tesco spokeswoman confirmed it has ...
the appointment, the bank's marketing functions will be overseen by HSBC head of UK marketing Philip Mehl, First ...
to position it as a brand for aspirational cosmopolitan consumers, in contrast with fellow high-street banks such as Barclays, Lloyds TSB and Halifax. Boulton led the relaunch of the bank's upmarket banking service, HSBC ...
20 Feb 2009
| by Miranda Fitzgerald
B Q's like-for-like sales for the 13 weeks to 31 January fell by 5.9%, far better than the 9% decline that its company broker Deutsche Bank had predicted. The DIY market has been severely affected by the slump in the property market. However, B Q reported a slight rise in sales in big-ticket items ...
of online and on-site research in the months surrounding the August Bank Holiday of the festivals ...
20 Feb 2009
at Lloyds Banking Group at the end of April....Nigel Gilbert was handed the top marketing job at Lloyds Banking after
the merger between Lloyds TSB and HBOS in December. Since then, Hanson
has held an interim role overseeing the marketing of the former HBOS
brands. He is not thought to have a job to go to. ...