Phil Bentley, the managing director of British Gas, is stepping down as profits for the company's residential energy supply jumped 11% to £606m in 2012.
16 Jan 2013
| by Opinion
Consumers will soon expect to be able to switch seamlessly between connected devices, which will fundamentally change how media is consumed, says VivaKi's Marco Bertozzi after CES 2013.
We examine the biggest trends from the latest census data and how the insight they provide will influence the country's marketers in 2013 and beyond.
Samsung is rapidly gaining ground on Apple's lead in the UK smartphone market after "tremendous growth" in the past year, according to comScore data.
16 Nov 2012
| by Staff
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BT added 21,000 customers to its TV service in the quarter, trumping rivals BSkyB and Virgin Media, but revenue was down 9% on the year as the telecoms provider was hit by the European debt crisis.
Public awareness of Olympic sponsors increased after the start of the Games and an advertising blackout period for non-sponsors, although a sizeable proportion of people were still unable to name a single sponsor.
More than half the UK population cannot confidently name a single Olympic sponsor, despite the hundreds of millions poured into sponsorship programmes, according to research from ICM on behalf of Third City.
06 Jul 2012
| by Jenny Chan
Among China consumers, Apple is the number one brand in the mainland, while Samsung has aced out Apple in Hong Kong, according to the Campaign Asia-Pacific 2012 Asia's Top 1000 Brands report, the biggest and most influential survey of brands in the region.
Marketers are not doing enough to make customers activate loyalty programmes, with two in five (39%) people not using all the loyalty programmes they are enrolled in, according to findings from ICM Research.