Movings/Shakings: 20 May
Moves and shakes at Lotto NZ, IABNZ, ANZ, Carat, Y&R NZ and Green Cross.
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Movings/Shakings: 16 May
Moves and shakes at Fairfax, MediaWorks, Mi9 and 8.
Colenso BBDO cramps up after golden run
There hasn’t been much bad news for Colenso BBDO in the past few years, with a host of big account wins, some big hires and a regular stream of big awards. But managing director Nick Garrett has confirmed it has had to shuffle the deck and say goodbye to a handful of staff on account of what he says are changing client demands and a couple of projects that didn’t come to fruition.
Movings/Shakings: 13 May
Moves and shakes at IAB NZ, Fairfax, Cannes Lions, More FM, and Auckland Conventions Venue and Events.
Movings/Shakings: 9 May
Moves and shakes at Touchcast, MediaWorks, Pure SEO, Domino’s, Touchtech and OptimalBI.
There can be only one: Jane Hastings takes on newly created chief executive role at APN—UPDATED
APN is centralising management of its radio, publishing and digital business interests in New Zealand with the appointment of Jane Hastings in a redefined chief executive officer role. Previously, the Kiwi arm of APN had dual chief executive roles, with Martin Simons being in charge of the publishing and digital side and Hastings holding the reins at TRN. Updated with comments from Hastings.
Movings/Shakings: 6 May
Moves and shakes at Interbrand, TVNZ, Tangible Media, New Zealand Story and Vena.
King takes creative reins at Whybin\TBWA, Talbot heads to Oz—UPDATED
Just over a year after he arrived at Whybin\TBWA, Toby Talbot is departing the agency, with ex-M&C Saatchi executive creative director and chief executive Dave King coming on board as the replacement chief creative officer.
Movings|Shakings: 2 May
Industry moves and shakes at Y&R Wellington, Whybin\TBWA, Trade Me, Tangible Media, Mango, Mediacell and ADK.
Movings/Shakings: 29 April
Changes at Blackfoot, Colenso BBDO, MediaWorks, First Star Communications, Adhesif Labels and GrabOne
Movings/Shakings: 22 April
Moves and shakes at Y&R NZ, MediaWorks, The Breeze, New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, Online Republic, Lily & Louis and Seven Sharp.
Movings|Shakings: 9 April
Industry moves at the Marketing Association, 8 (8com), Fairfax, Icebreaker, Ogilvy, Zenith Optimedia, Volom, Pead PR and The Sweet Shop.
Movings/Shakings: 7 April
Moves and shakes at Porter Novelli, Anthem, Colenso BBDO, the Rock, Lego, and Beat Communications.
Walden to sit at the head of The Family’s table
After establishing the New Zealand arm of Whybin\TBWA around 15 years ago, David Walden resigned from his post last year and made way for Todd McLeay. And now he has officially announced his first new role: chairman of The Family, the agency set up by ex-Ikon leaders Tom Davidson and Lee Parkinson.
Lendrum handed CAANZ reins
CAANZ chief executive Paul Head this morning announced that Simon Lendrum, managing director of JWT New Zealand, has been elected to the position of CAANZ president, which was vacated by DDB’s Sandy Moore after his recent resignation.
Crawford’s local leadership acknowledged with global FCB role
Break out the sultana pasties*, because Bryan Crawford, chairman and group chief executive of FCB New Zealand and Australia, has been named as the vice chair of FCB’s global network.
Movings/Shakings: 1 April
Moves and shakes at Mediaworks Radio, ANZ, Silvermoon, Touchast and Big Picture Media.
Easterbrook completes a trio of senior appointments at Goodfolk
Auckland-based brand and communications agency Goodfolk today announced the addition of Mark Easterbrook to the newly created role of executive creative director. This move comes shortly after the agency recently made two other senior staff appointments.
Movings|Shakings: 25 March
Industry shuffles at Cadbury, Saatchi & Saatchi NZ, the All Blacks, BrandWorld, Clemenger, RAPP and Word of Mouth.
Y&R NZ gives Kane the MD reins, chalks up some new business
Steve Kane, currently creative director at Whybin\TBWA, will take a seat in the managing director’s chair at Y&R NZ, replacing the outgoing James Hurman.
Movings/Shakings: 19 March
This week there were moves and shakes at MediaWorks, CAANZ, TVNZ, Image Centre, Idealog, Intelligent Ink, LiveSport and AD2ONE
Movings/Shakings: 14 March
Moves and shakes at the Retailers Association, Facebook NZ, George FM, Porter Novelli and STW.
Movings|Shakings: 11 March
Moves and shakes at Carat, DDB, Cannes Lions, 3rdeye, Dow Design, WOW, Pfizer and Word of Mouth.
The restructuring continues as APN brings remaining mags into the fold
Restructures among the big publishers have been fairly common in recent times and, following Bauer’s purchase of the NZ Magazines portfolio, APN has embarked on another one, with its Pacific Magazines titles New Idea, Girlfriend and That’s Life now trading alongside the New Zealand Herald’s Newspaper Inserted Magazine (NIMs) portfolio.
MA hunts for a new chief as McCarty gets set for a change
After around six years at the helm of the NZ Marketing Association, and with a number of big accomplishments under her belt, chief executive Sue McCarty has announced her resignation.
Movings/Shakings: 14 February
New romances blossom at TVNZ, MediaWorks, InWaiting, Xero, Breakfast, Blockhead and PR Partners.
Movings/Shakings: 10 February
The annual league of corporate musical chairs continues with key moves made by Bauer, Whybin\TBWA, Pfizer, Mango, Tourism New Zealand and Network Ten.
Movings/Shakings: 4 February
The corporate shuffle continues at Scoop, Bauer, Lily & Louis, The Radio Network, the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand and TVNZ.
Movings|Shakings: 31 January
Starring Toyota, TVNZ, Andy Lark, Andy Williams, Jennifer Duval-Smith and Nicholas O’Flaherty, Pandora, Beryl, Harald van Heerde, Bauer, Belowtheline, Kea and More FM.
Movings/Shakings: 28 January
Changes at MediaWorks Radio, Saatchi & Saatchi, GrabOne, Reckitt-Benckiser, Pfizer, The Pond, Bauer, Thick as Thieves and Marine Vouchers.
Sweeney, Kerr set March launch date for new agency
Porter Novelli says it has a high profile candidate on the shortlist to replace Carolyn Kerr, who will depart the agency to join former MD Jane Sweeney’s new venture in March. Sweeney hopes to recruit as many as three more staff by launch.
Movings/Shakings: 21 January
Changes at Saatchi & Saatchi, Tourism Malaysia, Fairfax, The Edge and Hanmer Springs, new business for Sputnik and Pead PR, Fonterra’s rumoured new sponsorship, RIP Richard Clark, kudos for Belowtheline and Award School returns.
Movings|Shakings: 15 January
Playing some Christmas catch-up for the first instalment of Movings/Shakings for 2014, with changes at Cadbury, Radio New Zealand, Radio Hauraki, Skinny Mobile, Rapp, Flossie, Photoplay and Fonterra.
Movings/Shakings: 17 December
Changes at Seven Sharp, OMD loses an experienced campaigner to MBM, Bruce Matchett leaves his Singaporean post, another Fairfax shift and the NBR announces its new front page tenant.
Fackrell heads for Sydney, takes up regional DDB reins
It’s been a busy end-of-year for DDB NZ, with some big losses and a few big wins. And it’s got some more news to share because executive creative director Andy Fackrell has decided to take up a new role within the DDB Group as regional creative director for Asia Pacific and will move to Sydney in the new year.
Movings/Shakings: 10 December
Alan Gourdie joins the board table at Designworks, Dave Gibson adds NZFC chief executive badge to his decorated career, Marsden Inch acknowleges young duo’s talents, Porter Novelli brings on young comms hotshot for six-month internship, Justin du Fresne follows Deaker out the Newstalk ZB door, IBM and the Marketing Association put their heads together.