Time was when the CMO of Unilever was one of the two most powerful people in marketing alongside that of rival Procter & Gamble but that’s, arguably, no longer the case as both legacy FMCG businesses adjust to a radically ...
Read More »Former Unilever marketing boss Keith Weed joins WPP board
Former Unilever chief marketing and communications officer Keith Weed is joining the board of WPP as a non-executive director. In a long career at Unilever Weed (below) picked up numerous honours including Global Marketer of the Year for 2017 from ...
Read More »What’s next for Unilever as long-serving CMO Weed departs?
It’s nice when someone’s able to leave their job without an investigation in sight and the Twittersphere is loaded with tributes to Unilever’s departing CMCO to give him his full moniker (the ‘C’ stands for communications) Keith Weed. It’s another ...
Read More »Branding expert Jope succeeds Polman as Unilever CEO
Here’s Alan Jope, the new CEO of Unilever, talking to then JWT boss Bob Jeffrey about branding in China. Jope succeeds Paul Polman, who transformed Unilever in many ways with his sustainability platform but, like most long-serving CEOs (Polman served ...
Read More »The&Partnership’s Johnny Hornby investigates the programmatic media buying ‘black hole’
Here’s Johnny (Hornby) again, our investigative reporter ‘on the rocks’ at Cannes. Here he is asking boss Sir Martin Sorrell, Unilever CMO Keith Weed, someone big at Google and others about the programmatic media buying ‘black hole.’ 40 per cent ...
Read More »The big networks are like bottom-fishing trawlers says Joe Pytka as Cannes debates talent crisis
Cannes 2014: what have Jim Henson, Martin Amis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dr Seuss got in common? They all started their careers in advertising. There was once a time when advertising could lure the best creative people in the world. ...
Read More »Unilever cuts, debunking Millenials, the ‘Nutcracker’ ad with Spob and Freddie and more Ron Burgundy
Less is more seems to be the current marketing mantra at Unilever with CMO Keith Weed (left) telling an investor conference that he plans to cut agency and production fees to around 20 per cent of the zillions the company ...
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