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Advertising is a very exciting industry. With commercials now having their own Cannes awards, not unlike the Cannes Film Festival, it is an exhilarating time to be in the advertising and marketing field. If you have ever felt you that you have the creativity it takes to develop an ad campaign, but wanted to do it on a management level then this is the post for you.
In this post, we will discus the common responsibilities of three types of management positions within the advertising industry, which include: Marketing Manager, Advertising Manager and Public Relations Manager. There are also some great resources, headhunters and executive search recruiters, available on the internet that can give you more information on the careers below. Remember that these executive search recruiters and headhunters can be your eyes and ears on what is available for you and how to grab it.
Marketing Manager jobs require candidates to have a good knowledge of all marketing areas so they can oversee the development of the whole marketing project. There are many responsibilities involved with the marketing manager role from determining the demand for products and services offered by an organization and its competitors, to developing pricing strategies with the goal of maximizing the organizations profits while ensuring that the customers are satisfied. Most entrants into the marketing field have a marketing related degree, which is an essential requirement for most positions. There are many marketing headhunters and executive recruiters available that will help you find the Marketing Manager career for you. However, before you can apply for a Marketing Manager position you may need to gain experience in the field either as a Marketing Assistant or Marketing Executive.
An Advertising Manager develops, implements, and manages the company’s advertising strategy, both from a business, sales and technical perspective. It is their job to initiate and manage discussion and sales with sponsors and agencies. Advertising Managers are generally responsible for managing a group of advertising sales representatives, while also managing the development of sales materials, including media kits. To be eligible for an Advertising Manager position you will most likely require some experience in the industry, whether it is in creative or sales. An excellent way to get some experience is by using a headhunter or executive recruiter to find you an entry level position in a company you’ve always wanted to produce an ad campaign for.
A Public Relation Manager or Director develops and implements a company’s overall strategic public relations programs. Programs may often include media relations, community relations, internal communications and investor relations. In order to work in the Public Relations department of a company you will require some form of public relations experience. You can also try to get in on an entry level position in the public relations department by apply for a position with a recruiter or executive search firm and working your way up the corporate ladder to become the Public Relation Manager.
So start browsing through the recruiter directories and see which executive search recruiters or headhunters can get you into your new marketing career.
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The Pavilion KL Malaysia Shopping Central
THE three new shopping centres in the Klang Valley set to open this month will offer a host of new trendy concepts as part of their product differentiation.
Pavilion KL will be the first in the country to feature street-front retail shops while the expanded Sunway Pyramid will offer a uniquely family leisure and entertainment experience within an integrated resort city.
The Gardens has a roof garden concept to cater to the changing lifestyle of people living in the city and aims to be one of the most exciting fine dining destinations in Kuala Lumpur.
Commenting on the current retail trends, Zerin Properties head of investment Francis Quah said: “In short, all the new shopping centres attempt to offer a lifestyle-themed one-stop centre for shoppers.”
They include facilities that allow the shoppers to shop, dine and enjoy their shopping experience and leisure all at a single family destination.
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Many shopping centres are also putting high priority for customer service, including having dedicated car parking for loyal customers, reward card and other customer service-related initiatives.
Kuala Lumpur Pavilion Sdn Bhd director of centre management John Sironic said Pavilion KL aimed to bring the shopping experience of the world-famous New York’s 5th Avenue, Tokyo’s Ginza, and Milan to Bukit Bintang when it opens for business on Thursday.
“With Bukit Bintang now complete, Malaysia can reinforce its attraction as a top Asia retail hub,” Sironic said.
“Pavilion KL’s opening coincides with Visit Malaysia Year 2007, and we are proud to be part of the shopping euphoria.”
Located in Bukit Bintang - the heart of Kuala Lumpur’s bustling shopping district – Pavilion KL’s seven levels of retail complex offer wide choices in shopping, food and beverage, and urban leisure.
Pavilion KL is the anchor of a world-class urban development comprising two luxury residential towers, a corporate office block, and a proposed “6-star” boutique hotel that together adds up to a total gross built-up area of 3.68 million sq ft. The large airy premises framed with high ceilings and wide corridor pavements will make shopping at Pavilion KL a relaxing and pleasurable experience.
The 1.4 million sq ft of net lettable retail space will house 450 outlets in six precincts - Bintang Circle, Gourmet Emporium, Couture, Connection, HOME and Seventh Heaven.
At Pavilion KL, a host of new brands that are making their debut in Malaysia, such as Joan & David, Kiehl’s, LIULIGONGFANG, Mandarina Duck, Okaidi & Obaibi, Reiss, Shanghai Tang and Thomas Pink.
Meanwhile, at Mid Valley, The Gardens will have over 200 high-end retail shops and a roof garden when it opens its doors on Sept 26.
An artist’s impression of The Pavillion shopping centre
The RM1.5bil The Gardens is the five-star component of Mid Valley that comprises a four-storey shopping gallery, two landmark office towers and five-star Gardens Hotel and Residences.
Mid Valley City Gardens Sdn Bhd chief executive officer David McCracken said The Gardens would be a lifestyle shopping centre with specially designed precincts for leisure shopping at exclusive fashion shops and a host of other lifestyle offerings.
In line with the tagline Its About You, McCracken said, the ambience of The Gardens would be “comfortable, relaxed, cultured, refined, natural and managed with a five-star hospitality feel.”
The upmarket fashion-focused shopping gallery will be anchored with a new fashion concept by one of the leading departmental stores from Singapore - Robinsons – and the established Isetan departmental store with a new store format.
Exclusive international fashion labels are available from the Melium Group, The Link, FJ Benjamin and Royal Sporting House, besides current favourites such as Coach, Hugo Boss, Aigner, Banana Republic, Ted Baker and Massimo Dutti.
The ambience of The Gardens atrium
On top of exclusive precincts for quality home wares, art galleries, boutique cinema, function space and arts theatre, there is The Cocoon, a holistic wellness centre offering an extensive list of new age treatments and ancient cures for complete mind, body and soul renewal.
Meanwhile, the remodelled and expanded Sunway Pyramid is looking to take the retail sector by storm on Sept 30 with its new standards and design concept that gives meaning to experiential shopping.
The additional 800,000 sq ft of net lettable area in the annexe block with its array of trendy precincts will spruce up the shopping experience of shoppers.
Sunway City Bhd managing director (property investment) Ngeow Voon Yean said the enhanced thematic offering and new experiential shopping concept at Sunway Pyramid would cater to the more sophisticated demands and discerning tastes of shoppers.
“The tenant mix will be expanded to introduce better depth and breadth of fashion, lifestyle, leisure, entertainment, and dining offerings.
“The shoppers’ profile has also been widened to include young adult and family segments of the market,” Ngeow said.
The special retail precincts at Sunway Pyramid are Marrakesh, Asia Avenue, Oasis Boulevard and Fashion Central.
Out to satisfy the fashion and lifestyle needs of shoppers are Jusco, Guess, Gap, Raoul, Lacoste, Principles, Marks & Spencer, Springfield, Colin’s & Loft, Elle Homme, L’Occitane, California Fitness, Harvey Norman, Lorenzo and Ace Hardware.
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Forest fires kill 19 in southern Greece
ZAHARO, Greece - Fires raced across dry woodlands in southern Greece on Friday, sweeping into mountainous towns and villages and killing at least 19 people, the country’s deadliest forest fire toll in decades, officials said.
At daybreak Saturday, fire crews backed by military helicopters and soldiers prepared to search through burned villages, the fire department said, and there were fears the death toll would rise. Throughout the night, tens of villages were reported to have been surrounded by walls of flames, with desperate residents phoning television and radio stations and appealing for help.
Hot, dry winds — at times gusting to gale force — fueled the flames and prevented firefighting planes from taking off for much of the day Friday. That left just ground forces to deal with fires scorching the rugged mountains of the southern Peloponnese and elsewhere, occasionally helped by helicopters and residents using their garden hoses.
Scores of separate fires burned in several parts of Greece with the most concentrated blazes in the rugged mountains of the Peloponnese region to the southwest of Athens, officials said. A recent heat wave with temperatures reaching 104 degrees has left many forests and scrublands tinder dry.
Firefighters struggled to control blazes in the western Ionian islands through mainland Greece and down to the south. A fire on the island of Evia north of the capital grew through the night, and the authorities declared a state of emergency, said Sofia Moutsou, the mayor of the town of Styra.
“If we don’t stop this now there will be nothing left,” she said on Antenna radio. She was hoping ferries could transport fire trucks to the island to help tackle the blaze.
Dozens of soldiers were helping the firefighters, and the military was sending 500 more troops and several helicopters at first light on Saturday, fire department spokesman Nikos Diamandis said.
“Our efforts are now focusing on saving human lives wherever there are people trapped, and on limiting the fronts,” Diamandis said, adding that four villages were in particular danger.
The deadliest fires were in the Peloponnese, where officials said many people were feared trapped by the flames in mountainous villages in the west, near the town of Zaharo, about 125 miles west-southwest of Athens.
Andonis Krespis, deputy mayor of the town of Zaharo, said he and others tried to flee the flames through a field, some abandoning their cars to run on foot. He escaped with burns on his face, but at least 12 people, including three firefighters, died, the fire department said. Nine of those — including three firefighters — died after a car crashed into a fire truck and led to a pile up as residents tried to flee the area.
At dawn, the smoldering remains of the fire truck could be seen overturned in a gully off the road, and the charred wreckage of cars and a motorbike lay strewn across the road.
“We are living through an unspeakable tragedy today,” Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said Friday on a visit to the Zaharo region.
The government appealed to European Union countries to “send any help they can,” acting Interior Minister Spyros Flogaitis said after an emergency meeting of Greece’s civil protection authority.
The blazes even reached into the capital where a fierce fire broke out during the night in a park in the upscale neighborhood of Filothei, a few miles north of the city center, the fire department said. Ten truck units battled the blaze.
Apart from the 11 deaths near Zaharo, one more person was found dead in a separate fire near the town of Amaliada to the north, officials said. Near the town of Areopolis, 125 miles southwest of Athens, five people burned to death — including two whose charred bodies were found locked in an embrace. A firefighter also died of a heart attack while battling flames.
Several homes went up in flames. Residents and local officials called television stations and pleaded for help. One woman said she was among about 20 people, including children, trapped in the village of Rodina.
“We can see the fire in front of us. It’s at our feet,” the woman, who did not give her name, told private Antenna television by phone. “We’re choking on the smoke.”
Ambulances struggled to reach the area, where television footage showed flames towering above homes and turning the night sky orange.
Three major fires continued burning out of control on Friday evening in the southern Peloponnese: one near Areopolis, one on Mount Taigetos and another on Mount Parnonas to the east. Authorities declared a state of emergency in two areas.
Major roads, including the highway between Sparta and the town of Kalamata in the south, were closed. Local television footage showed residents with garden hoses joining firefighters to battle the flames.
The fires damaged four power lines, leading to blackouts across the south, the power company said. On Taigetos, where the fire broke out on Thursday afternoon, two firefighting planes in the area were unable to take off for most of Friday because of winds gusting near 40 mph. Three water-dropping helicopters managed to fly only occasionally.
Sports career is over for tragic figure
Michael Vick deserves nothing less than the sacrifice of his sports career and whatever criminal sentence he will receive. This is a man who was paid insane amounts of money to compete in a sport, and his downfall will be chiseled into history and his name forever linked to the brutal, illegal “sport” of dog-fighting.
If it were alcohol and drugs leading him to his doom, some sympathy might be awarded for the highly addictive nature of these sins. Gambling? Again, it’s an addiction that carries a unique curse. Trouble with domestic or other physical violence? He is an athlete conditioned over a lifetime to physical confrontation, so maybe we could even forgive him for that.
But dog-fighting? What could a man so insanely popular and ridiculously wealthy possibly gain by being even distantly associated with an activity that is so blatantly wrong it leaves an entire nation wondering “What the heck was this guy thinking?”
This is a tragedy in every sense of the word.