Sainsbury's has hired Penny Slatter, a former senior marketer at Somerfield's 24/7 home shopping arm, to head marketing for its online grocery interests. The appointment comes as Sainsbury's attempts to catch up with market leader Tesco, which is due to reveal online sales of about pounds...
New Look, the discount fashion retailer, has hired HHCL & Partners to handle its UK advertising business. HHCL beat two undisclosed agencies to the work last week. The retailer had been talking to agencies for about two months. New Look said it will begin the search for a media agency...
Unilever has finalised the structure of its combined Unilever Bestfoods UK business, dividing the business into five category groups and dropping the Van den Bergh company name. The reorganisation will see Bestfoods UK marketing director Andrew Crawford take early retirement from the company....
Vizzavi, the multi-access portal jointly owned by Vivendi Universal and Vodafone, has hired BT's head of sponsorship, Vanessa Miner, to develop a sponsorship strategy. Miner spent more than seven years at BT in a number of roles in the Internet and Openworld divisions. She was responsible...
The Home Office and the Football Association are to seek an agency for a joint anti-racism advertising and promotional campaign, as part of a government assault on football hooliganism. The campaign will shame fans who display racist behaviour at football matches. While the FA has run several...
Carlton Television commercial development director Caroline Hunt has left her post without a job to go to. Hunt resigned earlier this month. Jane Brown has been promoted to the post of head of commercial development and takes over Hunt's responsibilities. Hunt has been at Carlton...
Harley-Davidson Europe is understood to have frozen its above-the-line advertising budget, dropping Partners BDDH from its agency roster after five years. It is not clear whether Harley-Davidson will seek to appoint a new agency and the company refused to confirm or deny that it had dropped...
Interpublic has overtaken WPP as the world's biggest advertising company after acquiring True North Communications in a deal worth pounds 1.39bn. Top advertisers including Coca-Cola, General Motors, Compaq and Unilever will be brought together within the new group, which will have revenues of...
RTL has confirmed that Richard Eyre, director of strategy and content, has resigned. Eyre does not have a job to go to and is believed to be planning to take time off to write a novel, with the aim of returning to a role in media at some point in the future.The former chief executive of ITV...
BT, facing mounting calls for top management to quit, has called off a meeting with key shareholders that had been scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, March 20. Investors had been expected to press BT to abandon the planned flotation of its mobile phone business.
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