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Robin Wicks * Senior VP, marketing, sales and reservations * Six Continents Robin Wicks could be just another upmarket business traveller gearing up for that day's board meeting by tucking [...]

Reckitt Benckiser, the Anglo-Dutch household goods group, has moved the UK advertising business for its Vanish stain removal brand, worth £3.5m, from WCRS to Roose & Partners. The shift, which [...]

US gaming giant MGM Mirage is seeking a marketing director and talking to WPP group advertising and PR agencies ahead of its launch of an online casino, to be operated [...]

Persuading British travellers that the railways are fit for use will be a tough call for operators. One year on from the Hatfield disaster and the subsequent ravaging of the [...]

One year after the Hatfield disaster and six weeks after September 11, the public is more worried about the safety of train travel than air travel, according to research by [...]

The IT stock meltdown has caused headaches for all computer firms. Can Hewlett-Packard reply with a merger or will it always be better known for its printers, asks Matthew Arnold [...]

Holiday Autos, the leisure carrental company, is reviewing the £2.5m advertising account held by Davies Little Cowley Fiddes after less than a year, due to the departure of account leaders [...]

Carole Armstrong-Hooper * Marketing director * Henkel Detergents UK After a career spent abroad, including nearly two decades marketing cosmetics in Germany and China, Henkel's Carole Armstrong-Hooper has returned to [...]

Henkel has entered the UK detergents market with the launch of Glist 3-in-1 automatic dishwashing tablets. The launch of the product, which will compete with Reckitt-Benckiser's Finish, is to be [...]

Six Continents has appointed Leo Burnett to handle a £2.5m creative account for its Holiday Inn hotels, with the aim of improving the brand's visibility in the UK in the [...]

Chrysalis Radio is responding to the drop in advertising revenue with a bid to woo financial advertisers away from television and press. The broadcaster's media sales arm, Chrysalis Enterprises, is [...]

Anheuser-Busch has shifted its £10m UK media planning and buying task out of OMD UK into an in-house media division. Busch Media Group Europe, the media planning and buying arm [...]

Daihatsu, the Japanese carmaker, has hired Walsh Trott Chick Smith as its creative agency, with a brief to give the brand a stronger identity. The decision follows a three-month pitch, [...]

Butlins has hired Warner Holidays' sales and marketing director Marc Jones to fill its top marketing position. Jones, who becomes sales and marketing director at Butlins, replaces Ken Johnston, who [...]

British Airways has slashed its below-the-line agency roster and has confirmed it is reviewing all agency relationships in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the US. The airline has [...]

Unilever has created international brand director roles for the top marketers in its home and personal care division. The appointments aim to develop a consistent global feel for power brands [...]

Carriers are reeling from the financial as well as human cost of the US tragedy. How will they cope? As markets worldwide dipped and stumbled in the wake of the [...]

Camelot sales and marketing director Ian Milligan has resigned, sparking a restructure of the company's sales and marketing department. Milligan, who was chief marketer during Camelot's successful bid for a [...]

Murat Yalman Marketing Vice-President Ford Europe Murat Yalman is taciturn and unpretentious. He speaks in a clipped and softly assured American accent that says he means business. As vice-president of [...]

Novartis, the pharmaceuticals to foods giant, is considering an overhaul of its global creative and PR agency roster. The company, whose brands include Ovaltine and Nicotinell, plans to bring agencies [...]

Budget airlines, domestic and European carriers could be badly damaged by the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, in addition to their larger transatlantic counterparts. Increases in insurance costs, the price [...]

Rolls-Royce & BentleyMotor Cars global marketing director Jim Campbell has left the car-maker for a conferences start-up after 10 months, citing a dispute over funding of the Bentley marque. Campbell [...]

Littlewoods Leisure marketing director Robin Cairnes has left the football Pools operator just as it launches a major marketing offensive. Cairnes had been at Littlewoods for a year and looked [...]

Marketing has been following news of the Procter & Gamble spy scandal with rapt attention. The firm has been in the hot seat since it admitted rifling through rubbish bins [...]

Just when you thought the debate over the Public Private Partnership for the Tube had been completely exhausted, those in the know are asking anew: is private enterprise better equipped [...]

Toyota has secured the sponsorship of ITV1's Formula One coverage in a £25m deal. The four-year agreement, which runs from 2002 to 2006, coincides with the launch of Toyota's F1 [...]

Unilever is expanding its Surf range and supporting a revamp of the brand's packaging with a £5m TV ad campaign with the strapline, 'Fresher for longer'. New products in the [...]

Novartis has consolidated its top two marketing roles into one with the appointment of former Boots skincare marketer Nick Evans to the new position of marketing director for consumer healthcare. [...]

How will consumers react to the DVLA's introduction of purchase date and area information to car licence plates? The release of new licence plates is always a boon for UK [...]

Littlewoods is making a comeback with a double jackpot and a sponsorship deal with ITV Sport. Will its bid to attract lapsed and new players succeed. If there was ever [...]

The National Lottery is far and away the most popular gambling activity in Britain, with 56% playing regularly compared with just 8% playing the football Pools, according to research by [...]

Daewoo Cars has seen UK sales halved and a 71% profit fall for its parent company. Will the end of its unique dealership network policy turn the tide? Is Daewoo [...]

Bacardi-Martini is putting £12m into a clubbing-themed marketing campaign for its core Bacardi rum brand, as it looks to eat into vodka's dominance among 18- to 25-year-old drinkers in the [...]

Littlewoods Leisure is to revamp the image of its football Pools, returning to television after a five-year absence with an ad campaign worth between £5m and £10m. The campaign follows [...]

Kimberly-Clark is putting £2.8m behind the launch of a variant of its Andrex toilet tissue brand treated with aloe vera lotion. The product, coming hard on the heels of a [...]

Fierce rivalry in the motor services sector has moved the AA to overhaul its brand and put its competitors on alert The Automobile Association's revelation that it is carrying out [...]

Chris Hawkens * Head of marketing * Skoda Auto A year ago, Skoda's Chris Hawkens was the toast of the UK marketing world. His rehabilitation of the much-maligned Czech marque [...]

Procter & Gamble is to replace its Pampers Premiums nappy range with a new line called Pampers Easy Ups. Like its main rival, Kimberly-Clark-owned Huggies, which relaunched in March with [...]

Hugh Taylor Vice-president of marketing, UK and Ireland Hilton International Hugh Taylor is in a jovial mood. Lounging in the top-floor Aspects Cafe of the Hilton London Metropole, with his [...]

Let's face it: sex sells. And Marketing knows a sexy story when it sees one, even when it's buried in an otherwise inscrutable press release. So when an e-mail with [...]

Aeroflot's passenger numbers have fallen 76% since the Soviet Union was broken up. Matthew Arnold asks whether a rebranding can lure travellers to its improving service Aeroflot, whose customer numbers [...]

Gillette has switched its £56m global oral care account from New York-based Interpublic agency Gotham to Omnicom's BBDO Worldwide. In the UK, the move will see the creative account, encompassing [...]

The UK's betting operators are joining forces for a £2m press, poster and PR campaign celebrating the end of the betting tax. The work will launch on October 5, the [...]

The Business in the Community awards for excellence saw just how valuable CRM activity can be. Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate scooped the Cause Related Marketing Award at last week's [...]

Pharmaceuticals giants including GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Novartis and Astra Zeneca are likely to get the green light to advertise dozens of prescription drug brands under a relaxation of European Commission [...]

Aeroflot, the Russian airline long derided for its poor service and safety record, has hired Identica Partnership to revamp its image. It is thought that the brand consultancy could look [...]

Companies looking to devise an ethical image need to pick their audience and message carefully. Philip Morris last week became the latest in a growing stable of beleaguered blue-chip multinationals [...]

Bass Hotels & Resorts, shortly to be renamed Six Continents, has poached Pillsbury UK commercial director Rob Hancock to fill the new position of vice-president, brands, EMEA. The move, effective [...]

Jeyes Group is revamping its Parozone bleach brand, and adding two fragrances to coincide with a £2m TV ad campaign supporting its Fizz Tabs and flushable Toilet Wipes. The campaign [...]