January 18, 2012
Former CBS Interactive president Neil Ashe has been named president-CEO of Wal-Mart Stores' global e-commerce business. Other moves this week include Simon Calvert's role as head of strategic planning at Digitas, new Clear Channel President John Sykes and Wenner Media Chief Digital Officer David Kang.
January 17, 2012
Kraft Foods will reorganize its domestic sales team, consolidate its U.S. management centers and trim the corporate and business units. About 40% of the cuts will be from the sales reorganization, though the company could not say how many will be in marketing.
January 13, 2012
Rich Silverstein is drawn to Americana, from bridges to baubles, from cars to cartoons.
January 12, 2012
It's been five years since Julie Roehm has had a full-time marketing gig, but as of this month, she's returned: Ms. Roehm is the new senior VP-marketing at business-software company SAP.
January 11, 2012
Angela Wei, who was most recently executive director-digital marketing solutions at Time Inc., is moving to Arnold to head digital operations.
January 10, 2012
He's got a trendsetter rating on a par with George Clooney and an influence rating rivaling Lady Gaga's, so can anything stop the Broncos' Tim Tebow from becoming a $10 million endorser? Maybe, but it's not what you're thinking.
January 09, 2012
Kraft Foods has picked a pair of internal candidates to lead marketing at the two new companies it will form at the end of 2012: Mary Beth West and Michael Hsu.
January 09, 2012
Edelman's Tony Blankley, 63, has died after a battle with stomach cancer. He was press secretary for Newt Gingrich in the 1990s and most recently exec VP-public affairs in Edelman's D.C. office.
January 06, 2012
Twenty-year sports and entertainment PR veteran Jeff Pomeroy will serve as president of the newly formed JDP Communications, a full-service Atlanta-based sports and entertainment boutique PR firm.
January 03, 2012
Andy Murray has left the shopper-marketing agency he founded, Saatchi & Saatchi X, to focus on Mercury 11, the new-business incubator he started last year.
December 27, 2011
Social-media outreach has begun for Madonna Badger, a marketing executive and founder of a branding design group, whose family died in a house fire in Connecticut early Christmas morning.
December 27, 2011
IPG has expanded the role of Malaysia CEO Prashant Kumar to oversee the World Markets Asia group. Also this week, new hires at Republica, USA Today, Relativity Media, DoubleVerify and Hill & Knowlton.
December 20, 2011
Richard Lynch, who has been CMO since 2008, will oversee global marketing, and internal and external communications.
December 19, 2011
F. Warren Hellman, private-equity investor who helped orchestrate a leveraged buyout of Levi Strauss & Co. and financed the restructuring of Y&R, has died.
December 14, 2011
Fisker Automotive, which markets high-end hybrids, has appointed Richard Beattie chief commercial officer, a new position, to direct global marketing as the company readies to launch its Karma sedan.
December 13, 2011
Avon is knocking on doors looking for a CEO to replace Andrea Jung, who rose to the post after instituting a new marketing direction for the world's biggest door-to-door seller. One analyst said the company "has been under a lot of pressure and so has she. It's not an easy fix."
December 13, 2011
Omnicom Group promoted Dale Adams from president to CEO of the company's highly profitable Diversified Agency Services (DAS) division.
December 06, 2011
After leading Asia Pacific strategy at Grey Group, Bindu Sethi returns to JWT India. Joining her is Bobby Pawar, who was previously chief creative officer at Mudra Group.
December 01, 2011
After an 18-month stint at independent Cramer-Krasselt, Anne Bologna is headed to MDC Partners to become a managing director at the Toronto-based holding company.
November 30, 2011
Also in this week's moves, Brides names a new sales team, Gilt's Fernando Romero moves to DailyCandy and Jonathan Lum comes to Olson from Goodby to head strategy.
