AdNews awards iPad
AdNews has awarded an
iPad to Louise Blines of Mackay Queensland, for correctly guessing
the population of Australia (22,792,261) in the AdNews Reader Survey.
Congratulation Louise, and thank you to all the readers who took part
in the survey.
H&T expands
offering Sydney and Melbourne
Healthcare and rural
advertising specialist H&T Group has expanded its Australian
offering, launching its sister agency inCeptiv in Sydney, and merging
with healthcare specialist in Melbourne, Communovate. The launch of
inCeptiv in Sydney fulfills H&T's affiliation obligations with
inVentiv Health/GSW.
PostClick appoints
business development manager
Ad network PostClick
has appointed UK headhunter Oliver Pease as business development
manager for its business and finance vertical and Bloomberg. Pease
has been a financial consultant for companies such as Nomura,
Barclays, RBS, HSBC, Standard Charter Bank, Ernst & Young, KPMG,
IBM GBS and Sungard.
GSK appoints
UrsaClemenger for project
GlaxoSmithKline has
appointed UrsaClemenger to a shopper marketing project, following a
competitive pitch. The pitch was held before Christmas.
Happy Soldiers founders
launch new venture
John Kane and Ben
Sampson, the founders of the now defunct creative shop Happy
Soldiers, have launched a creative company. The company is based in
the UK and aims to crowd source ideas, which is will then pitch to
global brands.
MEC boosts digital
MEC has promoted digital trading manager Ricky Chanana to digital trading director, a newly-created role. He will also sit on GroupM's digital trading council. MEC has also hired James Luty as search manager. Luty joins from UK agency Coolpink, where he was paid media manager.
SheSpot bolsters sales team
The women's media website portfolio SheSpot has expanded its sales team. Victorian sales director Prue Cox was promoted to national sales director. Two senior sales executives have also been appointed including Donna Talbot in Victoria and Nicole Bence in NSW.
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