Heineken Ireland has appointed Fiona Curtin as marketing director to succeed Sharon Walsh, who was promoted to managing director of the Dutch brewer’s Irish operation earlier this year. Since leaving Heineken for the second time in 2018, she worked as Jameson’s global planning and communications director at Pernod Ricard. She then held an interim post […]
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Heineken calls time on Island’s Edge
Dutch brewer Heineken Ireland has decided to take its Island’s Edge stout off the market after just two years. The stout brand was targeted at young consumers aged 18 to 35 in a bid to take share from Diageo’s Guinness. Heineken spent multiple of millions on marketing Island’s Edge with major advertising campaigns and pub […]
National Lottery to roll out EuroDreams
The National Lottery have launched EuroDreams, a new draw-based numbers game offering an annuity top prize of €20,000 every month for 30 years. Tickets for the new game will cost €2.50 per line and will go on sale from October 30 ahead of the first draw on November 6. EuroDreams is the first annuity type […]
Mace masks its support for Sexton
Rugby-mania is taking over the country ahead of Ireland’s quarter-final clash with New Zealand in Paris this weekend and Mace Ireland wants everyone to get behind the convenience store’s brand ambassador Johnny Sexton. To show support for Sexton, Mace is asking people all around the country to get behind the #GoJohnny movement. All anyone has […]
Marketer award deadline nears
Ireland’s marketers are reminded that the cut-off date for submissions for this year’s Marketer of the Year (MotY) award is 5pm on Thursday, September 21st. The judges will be looking for Irish marketers who have achieved outstanding brand success through exceptional strategic direction, innovation, creativity and effective communications. Entrants should have a track record of […]
Kent and O’Shea join MotY judges
Two leading Irish marketers have joined the judging panel for this year’s Marketer of the Year award competition honouring Ireland’s foremost marketing talent. The two new judges are Kevin Kent, head of marketing, Laya Healthcare and Ruth O’Shea, director and head of marketing and communications at Grant Thornton. Kent and O’Shea join last year’s award […]
Party time for Barbie fans
As Barbie the Movie opens in cinemas, Conor Byrne on the toy’s phenomenon… Barbie is undoubtedly the most talked-about movie of the year. It is expected to earn up to $100 million in its opening weekend in North America – about twice the anticipated revenue of Oppenheimer. However, Barbie is not just a movie; it […]
Dervan to leave National Lottery
Current Marketer of the Year Paul Dervan has resigned as chief marketing officer of the National Lottery. He was appointed by Premier Lotteries Ireland to the newly-created CMO role three years ago. He was in charge across all the lottery’s marketing activity, including brand development and effectiveness, in which he is a specialist. Dervan will […]
Hot Press to release World Cup song
Music fortnightly Hot Press is releasing a new single this Friday to mark the Women’s World Cup in Australia. The song, written by Maria Walsh and recorded by Zrazy, is titled ‘Come On Ireland (Giving Us The Right To Dream)’ . The single will be sold on iTunes and to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp […]
Sweeney to address Marketing Society
Discovering how companies can shift their strategic approach from relying solely on trend forecasts to embracing future scenarios to navigate uncertainty is the theme for the next Marketing Society talk. Fiona Sweeney (above), senior director of marketing, Kerry and Meredith Smith, director, futures and innovation EMEA at Kantar, are confirmed as speakers. The evening event […]
Corrigan moves to Domino’s Pizza
Domino’s Pizza has appointed Eoin Corrigan as head of marketing for Ireland. He will report jointly into Annelie McCaffrey, the company’s former director of marketing who is now managing director and Sarah Barron, chief marketing officer for Domino’s UK & Ireland. Corrigan joins from GroupM’s Essencemediacom where he spent eight years. He was most recently […]
Dynamo rolls out Newstalk rebrand
In its first major rebrand for Newstalk in over 15 years, Bauer Media has launched a new logo, visual identity and brand tagline for the station created by Dynamo. The new look is based on audience research. Newstalk has a weekly audience of 786,000 listeners. The latest JNLR report by Ipsos gives the talk station […]
Sky Ireland named top team at AIMs
Sky Ireland received the award for marketing team of the year at the Marketing Institute All Ireland Marketing (AIM) Awards attended by over 800 marketers. There were 115 shortlisted finalists competing across 25 categories of marketing disciplines. Vodafone Ireland won the advertising campaign award for work by Folk Wunderman Thompson. Square won two category awards […]
