Armadillo CRM, the CRM specialist agency which works with brands such as McDonald’s, hotels.com and Disney, announces a management buy-out of the business. Chief executive officer, James Ray, executive chairman, Chris Thurling, and chief financial officer, Andy Brown all take a stake in the company in its 25th anniversary year. Based in Bath and with […]
Veloforte, the multi award-winning, 100% natural endurance nutrition brand, has appointed Fusion Media to handle their PR brief for the UK market. Fusion Media‘s PR brief focuses on engaging specialist, consumer and lifestyle media with the brand as they target the growing audience of cyclists and active sports in the UK. Founded in 2016, Veloforte […]
Pentland Brands, the company behind global brand names such as Speedo, Ellesse, Canterbury, Boxfresh, Mitre and Berghaus, announced a major drive to bolster its marketing, digital and creative resources. It will see a major recruitment drive across the group’s London, Nottingham and Sunderland offices. Sean Hastings, Global Marketing Director for Pentland Brands, says: “We’re looking to accelerate the growth of our current […]
Wahoo, a leader in connected fitness devices, announced it will be supporting Sniper Cycling, consisting of the Belgian Crelan Charles Cyclocross team and Veranda’s Willems-Crelan-Charles road cycling team led by two-time Cyclocross World Champion Wout van Aert. The team has selected three key products from Wahoo’s ecosystem to support their training and racing efforts: the […]
Emmy-nominated director and producer Senain Kheshgi has teamed up with advertising industry veteran and executive producer Jonathon Ker to launch Los Angeles-based MAJORITY, a new production company with an all-women roster of established and ascending directors. The company, which is backed by M&C Saatchi, will operate as its own agency-agnostic entity, with the ability to […]
World leaders in business and politics recently gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. One of the annual attendees is MiSK Global Forum, an ongoing platform, set up to educate youth, and prepare them for the future. The World Economic Forum predicted that 65% of kids in school today will have jobs in […]
A London-based tech company are hoping to inspire creativity in the workplace and innovation in the sector by launching their own limited edition ‘Idea Beer’. Sideways 6 is a Shoreditch-based tech firm helping large organisations to collect, manage and act on employee ideas, insight and feedback. Often called ‘idea management’ or ‘innovation management’, the aim […]
Independent creative agency RPM celebrates their 25th birthday this month. The agency was launched in 1993 and remains independent to this day. Founded in Jan ’93 by three friends, RPM began in a cowshed on a working farm near Wokingham, with each of them raising just £5,000 to launch. “Before receiving visiting clients, we had […]
It’s impossible not to notice that a global women’s equality movement has been rapidly gathering pace across Film, TV, politics and the advertising industry in the past year. Starting with grass roots movements such as the Women’s March on Washington in 2016 which sparked similar protests around the world including the global Women’s March, and […]
Brand experience strategy and design consultancy 2LK have created an experiential pop-up lounge for HSBC at the 48th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. HSBC is a strategic partner at WEF, and the 2018 event was a key opportunity for HSBC to strengthen its credentials as a world leader in […]