Unilever Shakes up Brands Marketing

Unilever shakes up brands marketing

Anonymous. Campaign. Teddington: Mar 17, 2006. pg. 2, 1 pgs

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Author(s): Anonymous

Document types: General Information

Publication title: Campaign. Teddington: Mar 17, 2006. pg. 2, 1 pgs

Source type: Periodical

ISSN/ISBN: 00082309

ProQuest document ID: 1015496231

Text Word Count 176

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Copyright Haymarket Business Publications Ltd. Mar 17, 2006

Unilever is testing a new marketing approach and is assigning six of its marketers to integrate marketing across its leading brands.

The company is trialling the system across six of its 12 product categories. However, if successful, it will be rolled out across other categories. Five of the six individuals are dedicated to digital media.

The initiative will be overseen by Unilever's global media director, Alan Rutherford, who believes the group's agencies are struggling to achieve a truly integrated approach to marketing.

The move comes as Unilever continues to shift more of its marketing budget out of traditional advertising and into other media.

Rutherford said that only about 65 per cent of the Dutch-owned company's advertising budget was now spent on TV, down from about 85 per cent in 2000.

As part of the new approach, Unilever has developed an advertiser-funded programme for its Sure brand in the build-up to the World Cup. Sure/Rexona Fans United