Social media guru and retail executive both promoted at Best Buy

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- Social media guru and retail executive both promoted at Best Buy
- MeadWestvaco names Julia M. Amadio as VP Global Marketing for …
- Toyota Revamps Global Marketing
- Toyota Alarms Agencies With Plan to Launch Marketing Companies
- Marketers emphasize transformation at ANA/’BtoB’ conference

Social media guru and retail executive both promoted at Best Buy
Bizjournals.com
Judge will retain his title as Chief Marketing fficer which he has held since 2008 but he will replace his senior vice president title with executive vice president. Judge 46 has helped encourage Best Buy’s employees to use social media across multiple brands and channels to create stronger customer relationships said Best Buy CE Brian Dunn. His promotion “reflects his responsibility for global management of Best Buy’s portfolio of brands and his oversight of Best Buy’s global marketing efforts” Dunn said in a statement. Judge joined Best Buy as a member of its e-commerce team in 1999. He helped launch BestBuy. com and in 2006 became senior vice president of marketing. He started his career at The Direct Marketing Group and held marketing and management jobs at Young & Rubicam Coca Cola USA The Quaker ats Co.

MeadWestvaco names Julia M. Amadio as VP Global Marketing for …
Lesprom Network
announced Julia Amadio has joined the company as the new vice president of global marketing for MWV Healthcare effective June 15. Amadio brings to the position nearly 30 years of commercial leadership and marketing experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Amadio will oversee marketing and commercialization for MWV’s growing portfolio of TC and pharmaceutical packaging solutions including MWV’s successful adherence and compliance product lines.

Toyota Revamps Global Marketing
Brandweek Magazine
in the midst of sweeping organizational changesinitiated by its new president Akio Toyoda said it is creating twonew companies to manage marketing efforts for the automaker inJapan and worldwide respectively. ne company will steer marketing in Japan and the other will “carryout and assist global marketing as well as coordinate and assistthe marketing activities of TMC affiliates. ” The entities have yetto be named. Each will begin operating on Jan. 1 according to theparent company.

Toyota Alarms Agencies With Plan to Launch Marketing Companies
AdAge.com
Toyota spokeswoman Ririko Takeuchi told Advertising Age sibling Automotive News the moves were being driven by the Japanese automaker’s desire to make its marketing and advertising operations a free-standing entity empowered to make quicker decisions. She said the new companies will “handle advertising sales promotion and global marketing strategy” and “focus on marketing issues globally and help create a unified message. It’s no surprise then that many at Toyota’s ad agencies were left scratching their heads about the status of their relationships with the carmaker. Agency reactionSeveral executives at roster agencies told Ad Age they had no information about the motivations behind Toyota’s moves and knew no more about the situation than what was being reported in the press. Adding a layer of concern was that the Toyota announcement followed recent moves by rival Hyundai to bring its advertising in-house. Hyundai shuttled lead U.

Marketers emphasize transformation at ANA/’BtoB’ conference
BtoB Magazine
We have to completely rethink our business model and business processes. ” To communicate these changes Pitney Bowes this year launched a new ad campaign “There’s a lot more here than you think” created by GyroHSR Cincinnati. It also needed to get alignment across the organization so it formed an enterprise marketing council made up of global marketing heads. “We got 100% alignment on our brand strategy” James said. Susan Popper senior VP-global integrated marketing communications at SAP said her company has also undergone a transformation in response to the economy. ”There is consolidation in our industry and we need to stay competitive” Popper said. “We are about helping our customers as they go through extreme changes.
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