Sportscraft fine $20k for misleading consumers
Clothing retailer Sportscraft has paid penalties totalling $21,600 after being issued with two infringement notices by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission following an investigation into the recognition of consumer guarantee rights in the clothing retail industry. The ACCC issued the infringement notices because it had reasonable grounds to believe that Sportcraft had made false or misleading representations about consumer guarantees to its customers, in breach of the Australian Consumer Law. Read more here.
NAB and IBM back new BBC venture
The National Australia Bank (NAB) and IBM are confirmed as headline sponsors for BBC Worldwide Australia and New Zealand World-Changing Ideas Summit Sydney - an event dedicated to exploring cutting-edge innovations and issues in science, technology and health. The event will be held in November, bringing together BBC journalists and presenters from across its broadcast and online networks to question, challenge and explain alongside the innovators, technologists, designers and scientists on stage. Read more here.
Clemenger Melbourne expands senior leadership
Clemenger BBDO Melbourne has expanded its senior leadership with the appointment of two new group account directors, Deanne Constantine and Carol Macdonald. Constantine will head up the Mars account, including chocolate and pet food brands, while Macdonald will lead Mercedes Benz and Seek. Constantine joins from a role as global business director on google at Steve Stoute and Jay-Z's agency, Translation. Macdonald joins from a role at Ogilvy Australia as a group account director.
Rocket Fuel strengthens Melbourne sales team
Rocket Fuel London's agency sales director Deryck Wills is moving to Melbourne as a sales director across Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. he will be joined by former AMNET senior client relationship manager Louise Bermingham, who will take up a group sales manager role across the same states. The Melbourne hires follow new additions to the Rocket Fuel’s Sydney team, with Sydney-based sales director, Mailee Creacy and group sales manager Joanna Woods joining the Australian business this year.
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