UK Movers & Shakers – June Recap
In June, several UK brands made key marketing appointments including Jo Spencer as Marketing Director at Twinings, Lou Ashton at River Island, Annabel Keech at Sipsmith, John Ali as Brand Head at Simplyhealth, and Nissan's internal promotions of Nicolas Verneuil to sales director and Nicholas Thomas to GB marketing director, signaling fresh leadership poised to influence their brands' strategies for the year's second half.
Below is your June recap of new marketing appointments.
It is a good time to get on the radar with each of these decision-makers as they bring a fresh perspective to each brand’s plans for the second half of the year.
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Twinings appointed Jo Spencer as its new Marketing Director in June. Jo previously served as brand marketing director of Asahi, and prior to that, worked as marketing director of Kerry Foods. She has experience across a wide variety of channels.
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River Island hired Marketing Director Lou Ashton in June. She previously worked as the marketing director of Vivobarefoot, and before that, as the global marketing head at Topshop Topman.
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Sipsmith appointed Annabel Keech as its global marketing director, effective June, to replace incumbent Shelley Macintyre. Macintyre now serves as global marketing director for all of the gin brands at parent company Beam Suntory. Keech previously served as a marketing consultant, and before that, as the global marketing head for Peroni at Asahi.
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Simplyhealth employed Brand Head John Ali in June. Most of his experience lies in sponsorship (he previously served as sponsorship head at Marathonbet, senior sponsorship manager at Vitality UK, and sponsorship manager at Virgin Media).
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Nissan promoted its GB marketing director – Nicolas Verneuil – to sales director in order to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Andrew Sellars. To fill the GB marketing director position, it promoted Nicholas Thomas from global EV business director at Nissan Japan. These changes went into effect at the end of June.
These insights have been sourced from WinmoEdge.
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