Apple has hired John Browett , Dixons Retail chief executive and the former Tesco.com chief, to lead its retail strategy and the expansion of Apple stores around the world. Sky is taking on LoveFilm and Netflix by launching its own pay-as-you-go internet TV service, which will allow consumers to watch some of its movie and TV content whether they are Sky subscribers or not. Future has hired IPC's Keith Walker in the new role of head of audience development for its games and film online properties. T-Mobile is launching a proposition called 'The Full Monty' this week, which will offer customers unlimited calls, texts and data, with a major campaign coinciding with new activity from sister brand Orange. Brit Insurance has axed its marketing and communications team, putting the future of its sponsorship of the England cricket team in doubt. Npower has hired AXA marketer Debbie Britton to the post of director of customer marketing with a mandate to "rebuild trust" in the brand. H&M,…
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Europe continues its fudge and bodge and continues to ignore its core problem, which is that the Monetary Union just cannot work under the current framework. The Core Problem: Under a system of freely floating exchange rates (the dollar and sterling are free floating, the Renminbi is not) the market, on a continuous basis, bases prices on a combination of factors. These are: the level of domestic interest rates, the inflation rate, the government’s budget position, the balance of payments, in particular the current balance (this is the net of visible and invisible flows), and the way in which this is being offset through the capital account (in particular by government borrowing from outside the economy). If the market decides that, in combination, the country is in an unsustainable position, they sell the currency. There is a devaluation. This, with time, lags results in an adjustment, via more profitable exports, more expensive imports, higher interest rates, and, for a time, lower growth. It takes about…
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EUROPE took a major step towards full fiscal union last night, as every EU member country except the UK and the Czech Republic vowed to cut budget deficits and submit themselves to greater scrutiny from the European Commission. The 25 countries that signed up hope to have a formal pact in place by March, and plan to ratify and implement it in the following months. In an effort to put in place a big enough “firewall” to protect Italy and Spain from bankruptcy, the Council also agreed to bring the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism forward to July – a year earlier than initially planned. EUROPEAN banks are preparing to tap the European Central Bank’s emergency funding scheme for up to twice as much as the ECB supplied in its debut €489bn auction last month, providing further evidence of the sector’s liquidity squeeze. Several of the Eurozone’s biggest banks have said they could well double, or triple, their request for funds in the ECB’s…
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Het managen van virtuele werknemers en werknemers op afstand is dé nieuwe vaardigheid voor managers geworden. Maar, omdat deze competentie door niemand wordt aangeleerd, moeten medewerkers deze zelf onder die knie zien te krijgen. Om dit succesvol te kunnen doen, zijn een aantal strategieën vereist. Bedrijven worden steeds slanker en de virtuele medewerker wordt steeds belangrijker, die zijn of haar diensten aanbied vanuit huis of vanaf een andere kantoorlocatie. Er zijn veel voordelen verbonden aan werken op afstand. Je kunt aandoen wat je wilt en je hoeft niet deel te nemen aan kantoorpolitiek. Het nadeel is dat het werken op afstand minder stabiel is. Ook kan het ervoor zorgen dat je buiten belangrijke communicatiestromen valt, en is het moeilijker om te communiceren met je manager als je er niet bent, als je hem überhaupt te pakken kunt krijgen. Desalniettemin, werken op afstand zal populairder worden en kantooruren zullen vervagen. Een van de oorzaken is geldbesparing. Bedrijven willen zo efficiënt mogelijk werken en een armada telewerkers stelt…
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News International has parted company with Terence Cassaono, a top strategy director, who has left the company after seven years as part of its cost-cutting drive across its commercial operations. The COI's former deputy chief executive, Peter Buchanan, has joined HMDG as a consulting director. Ed Chalmers, the sales director at Global Radio, is to join Channel 4 as head of trading later this year. ITV has restructured its 75-strong regional sales team, in a move that will reduce the number of permanent offices and create centralised multidisciplinary hubs, and could lead to the loss of up to seven jobs. Procter & Gamble (P&G) has signed up several female athletes, including British cyclist Victoria Pendleton, as brand ambassadors for hair brand Pantene, ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Outdoor media company Clear Channel has called in management consultants McKinsey & Company to carry out a review of its 50-strong national sales team.
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· RBS Chief waives £1 million bonus · Sarkozy agrees Tobin tax · Britain’s shares fall as U.S. growth data misses expectations · Asian shares start the week softer · Euro falls, snapping a five day gain · Iran in threat over oil supply · Gold extends gains to seven week high
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RBS risks row over 'unacceptable' Stephen Hester £1m bonus. Bank heads for political storm with award of 3.6m shares to chief executive despite widespread opposition. Mail Online, the website for the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday, has become the world's largest English-language 'newspaper' site after leapfrogging the site for The New York Times, according to comScore. The Independent online's recent refresh appears to have paid dividends, scoring the website a 10% uplift in average daily users, which made it the only national newspaper website to record an increase between November and December, according to ABC data. Thomas Cook's marketing chief on the fight to save the 170-year-old business. The tour operator had an awful 2011 and is banking on product-led ads to turn its fortunes around. By Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith. Three out of five people are unable to name one Olympic sponsor, while 1% or less are unable to identify Panasonic, Samsung and Proctor & Gamble as London 2012 sponsors despite their high-profile campaigns.…
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· David Cameron delivers firm rebuke to Germany · EU commissioner warns US over banking regulations · Greece and its private creditors make progress in debt talks · US GDP likely to have risen 3%, a survey shows · Japan’s PM to take “bold” action to address yen’s strength · UK & European markets rally yesterday, but may trim gains today · Asian stocks swing between gains and losses overnight · Yen rises on demand for refuge assets · Gold traders bullish after Fed’s decision, with bullion rising steeply
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Hanna Bartyzel objęła stanowisko Assistant Director w Deloitte Poland, w biurze w Warszawie. Zajmuje się m.in. przejęciami i akwizycjami firm, due dilligence i klientami private equity. Przed przejściem do Deloitte Bartyzel pracowała przez rok i dziewięć miesięcy w brytyjskim oddziale Vodafone. Była menedżerem finansowym, odpowiedzialnym za region Europy Centralnej. Wcześniej, przez trzy lata zajmowała się transakcjami korporacyjnymi i due dilligence w londyńskim biurze PricewaterhouseCoopers (obecnie PwC). Była również Senior Associate w PwC w Amsterdamie (między 2002 a 2007 r.). Karierę zawodową rozpoczynała w Polkomtelu. Jest absolwentką Szkoły Głównej Handlowej i Helsingin kauppakorkeakoulu.
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Facebook ‘worth £1.1bn to UK economy’. Facebook claims its social network underpins 1.14bn of business and supports 18,400 jobs in the UK economy. Peugeot has launched a multi-million pound ad campaign with an animated TV spot featuring a voiceover by John Simm, the star of 'Life On Mars'. Thomas Delabriere, marketing director at Innocent Drinks, is leaving the drinks company after three years in the role. Mail Newspapers has parted company with top strategy executive Dan Levitt, who is leaving the publisher after five years to set up the UK office of Sydney-based word-of-mouth agency Social Soup, as its first managing director. Jonathan Arendt, managing director of Planet Rock, is to leave the digital radio station to set up a new digital media company, 7West. Universal Pictures has poached Nintendo marketing director and assistant general manager Dawn Paine to be its vice president of marketing. JWT has looked internally to replace its former chief executive, Guy Hayward, with the promotion of the joint managing directors,…
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