Tim Skellern, who spent three years with Wattie’s after immigrating to New Zealand from the UK in 2004 before throwing in the towel to set up his own company in 2007, has returned to the nurturing bosom of Heinz Wattie’s to take up the role of general manager marketing. 

Traditional business presentations are often characterised by slow moving slide shows, unreliable software and cheesy whirling squares. But Christchurch company Orly Productions hopes to change all that with a new, more engaging and extremely user-friendly business presentation platform called iPRES that it has designed to help companies communicate better and sell more.

Who it’s for: The New Zealand Transport Agency, by Clemenger BBDO Wellington and PRODIGY director Matt Palmer

Why we like it: It’s like real life, only backwards. Strangely, messing with accepted chronology and going for the good old film it in reverse approach always seems to …

Over the past five years the St. George bank brand has experienced significant development and in 2009 was named Australia’s 9th most valuable brand. And key to this success has been the leadership of Martin Wise, the general manager of brand and marketing.

Colenso BBDO has picked up four finalist nods for the Asian Marketing Effectiveness Awards, the most of any agency in Australasia and more than any other agency in the BBDO network. And it’s the only Kiwi agency to make the cut.

What is Auckland Super City thinking? As we in the design world have always thought, everyone is a designer, so why not throw a competition out to all New Zealanders and get them to design a random logo for the country’s commercial centre. That’ll give us international credibility. Yeah right!

Whakatane’s Deep Origin sparkling water, or, more particularly, the bottle the sparkling water is housed in, tickled the fancies of a range of H20 purists at the 20th Annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Awards in the US recently, walking away with the silver medal in ‘The People’s Choice Packaging’ competition.

In news sure to warm marketers’ cockles, the latest figures from Paymark, the network that processes over 75 percent of all electronic transactions in the New Zealand retail market, show that good old fashioned consumer spending is on the up. But the increased shelling out evident in some of the smaller centres is not being shared equally across the regions.

This week in eBuzz from Michael Carney’s Marketing Week: Thanks (or not) to technology, Gen Y and Gen Z will never be alone Secrets to online marketing

This week on ads@6, finally we get to see Mark Ellis attacked by gigantic mosquito’s thanks to HRV; Tower shows us what a petrified man looks like when he ignores a phone call from his wife; a clever Toyota Hybrid Camry ad gives you a glimpse into how …

Fashion doyenne Trelise Cooper was all at sea today, with the first showing of her Summer 2011 range aboard the Queen Mary 2.

The heavy weights have come out fighting upon news that Weight Watchers will now be endorsing certain items on the Mc Donald’s menu.

Joint venture campaign activity has kicked off in Australia and is set to give New Zealand a high profile over the next few months.

Here’s a video we just had to share. You may never look at your dog the same way again once you see the determined focus that goes into acquiring just one dog biscuit.

Using nothing but a Phantom camera at 1,000 fps (frames per second), director …

Marketing firm Silk Communications is pleased to announce the arrival of a new team member. Tessa Stewart has started at the firms new Takapuna Beach offices in the role of account director.

Everyone loves a makeover, especially supermarkets. In what seems like an eternal battle  to garner customer attention, New World and Pak ‘n Save stores are treating Alison’s Pantry to a makeover.

Aquisition tastes good, especially if you are ACP Media. The publisher has announced its purchase of mass market food magazine Recipes+ from publisher Knockout Media, in a deal both parties describe as “the perfect fit”.

Who is it for? New Zealand Cricket

Why we like it? When don’t we like to give the Aussie’s a good ‘ole ribbing? And there’s something therapeutic about telling the Aussie’s to “suck a kumara”. Still at the end of …