19 Dec 2008
| by Noelle McElhatton
LONDON - Emap, publishers of Broadcast, Retail Week and Construction News, is seeking a head of data and CRM to exploit its B2B subscription and events data assets and lead its database team.
18 Dec 2008
| by Noelle McElhatton
Peter Plumb, former managing director of Tesco data house dunnhumby, is to become chief executive of price comparison website moneysupermarket.com. He succeeds Simon Nixon, the founder of moneysupermarket.com, who is resigning as CEO of the business less than two years after it was floated.
18 Dec 2008
| by Sarah Johnson
LONDON - WPP has taken over the customer relationship management (CRM) division of Groupe Danone.
18 Dec 2008
| by Sarah Johnson
LONDON - London's Air Ambulance has introduced a text-to-donate scheme to increase donations.
17 Dec 2008
| by Noelle McElhatton
Welcome to the second issue of DM Media Digest, Marketing Direct's round-up of recent stories from local, national, international and trade press. This compilation is designed to keep you abreast of the most significant media reports relating to direct and digital marketing.
17 Dec 2008
| by Sarah Johnson
LONDON - The recommendation to part-privatise Royal Mail made in the Hooper Report has been welcomed by DM postal experts.
16 Dec 2008
| by Noelle McElhatton
LONDON - Proximity Worldwide has been ranked the most awarded direct network in the world, according to The Won Report 2008, days after its UK operation was fired by the BBC from its flagship TV Licensing account.
16 Dec 2008
| by Sarah Johnson
LONDON - Ministers are thought to be planning to sell 'a large stake' in Royal Mail to TNT or DHL in a step that paves the way to full privatisation.
15 Dec 2008
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - Proximity London has been fired from the direct marketing contract for TV Licensing after the wrong statistics for the number of fee evaders caught were used in millions of warning letters to the public.
15 Dec 2008
| by Sarah Johnson
LONDON - Bill Bryson, President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), is launching a Christmas website to capture prospect data and raise awareness of the environmental campaign.