BrewDog promotes top marketer to chief operating officer as it scraps CMO role
Lauren Carrol will continue to look after marketing, while taking on responsibility for people, digital, ecommerce, bars, and the US and German markets.
The AA appoints new CMO amid restructure to support transformation
Jasper BaumannSarah Fuller headed up marketing at Nando’s UK & Ireland until last September.
Sainsbury’s expands CMO role to oversee data and sustainability
Amrit VirdiSainsbury’s CMO Mark Given has expanded his remit to include data and sustainability, in line with the company’s push on personalisation.
BrewDog brings back CMO role as CEO promises to create ‘new type of business’
Lucy TesserasThe brewer’s brand and marketing director has been promoted to CMO, with co-founder James Watt saying BrewDog is “committed” to developing its leaders as it looks to distance itself from claims it operated a “culture of fear”.
The increasing disappearance of the CMO role should be a wake-up call the industry
Secret MarketerWhy are so many companies ditching the CMO? It’s happened before but this time around it feels like a seismic shift in how businesses view marketing leadership.
‘Be their champion’: Exploring the relationships that matter to marketers
Megan TatumSales, closely followed by the CEO, may be the most important relationships for marketers to nurture, but do they feel the same way?
O2’s marketing boss on returning to its founding ethos to ‘reset’ the brand
Jasper BaumannHaving joined Virgin Media O2 six months ago, tasked with overhauling O2’s brand strategy, Rachel Swift says she wants to re-establish its reason for being but won’t “change things for change’s sake”.
‘Grow up the brand’: How Three shifted media spend to engage the ‘whole country’
Grace GollaschThree has moved from a “social-centric approach”, where two-thirds of its media budget was allocated to channels like social media, to public channels like cinema, aiming to reach a broader audience.