Chief Marketer Staff

• Pernod Ricard Names New Spirits Marketing Exec

  Pernod Ricard USA has named Patrick Piana senior vice president, spirits marketing.

• News Briefs

  BURGER KING: will open its first restaurant in Indonesia, set to open in Jakarta by June

• Listline e-Newsletter 01/04/07

  Direct Media Inc. has been appointed to manage Covenant House’s donor
  file. Some 621,000 contributors are available, including 311,000 from
  the last 12 months.

• Agencies

  Meet the Broker: Nick Sarantakos

  Today we meet Nick Sarantakos, executive vice president at LDS Group Inc. His list brokerage clients include BMG Columbia House, Hearst Corp., Primedia, Time Inc., Tribune Co., WNET-13 and several cable TV companies.

• Beam Global Names Former Wrigley Exec as CMO

  Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. has named Rory Finlay senior vice president and global chief marketing officer. The post takes effect Jan. 29.

• Agencies

  FSI Coupon Worth Reaches $300 Billion in 2006: Marx

  Marketers distributed 253 billion coupons via FSIs last year, worth more than $300 billion in discounts to shoppers.

• Digital Marketing Agency VML Promotes Three

  Digital marketing agency VML has begun the New Year by promoting three of the agency’s longtime staffers to three new executive roles at the shop.

• News Briefs

  MATTEL: has formed a licensing partnership with lifestyle sports brand adidas to create a new collection of apparel, accessories and footwear for the My Scene, Hot Wheels and Fisher-Price brands.

• Merkle Acquires Unit of AB&C Group

  Merkle, a database marketing services company, has acquired the response services division of AB&C Group for an undisclosed sum.

• Digital

  E-Dialog Names Green to New Database Post

  E-Dialog, an online marketing services provider, has named Simon Green to the newly created position of director of database strategy and data services in its London office.