Regional publisher Johnston Press has announced a raft of senior appointments in its digital and commercial teams.
Drew Carmichael has been appointed sales director for Scotland, joining from Lyreco, where he was strategic and international director.
His appointment follows that of Brian Commins as sales director for Northern Ireland, having previously been sponsorship and promotions director at Virgin Radio and managing director at CityBeat Radio.
Also new to the business are Andrew Bibby, as group digital sales strategy director based in London, and Russell Kenyon, who becomes group digital sales director taking responsibility for selling Johnston Press’ digital solutions.
John Bills, group managing director said: “I’m thrilled to welcome each and every one of our new hires to the Johnston Press team, marking our continued investment in reengineering our sales force further improving our customer focused approach and further expanding our digital offering, in terms of the products we deliver and also the audiences we reach, both loyal and new.
“Each new member will play a crucial role in further driving our transformational sales strategy at such an exciting time for the business.”
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OMG…. the stupidity continues!!
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Just what’s needed, more chief’s earning lots of money.
Good luck getting the web to pay for itself.
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The web will never pay. I called with a former advertiser of our former rag and he said he has stopped advertising with it. He called it a load of rubbish and added he didn’t want his company to be associated with it. And he’ll never advertise on the web. It, too, is a load of rubbish he said so he has set up his own website. It used to be a great newspaper, he added, but now he doesn’t buy it, and won’t.
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@Dave S
So true whilst at the same time continuing to cut the numbers of “doers”
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Not a lot of regional experience here, will they never learn? Salesforce of the future is a project that serves one master who needs to pay the Bills. You’ve guessed it!
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So new JP employees are now refered to as ‘hires’…suppose it rhymes with fires!
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JP’s derisible Newsroom of the Future, with its ‘community’ section, is comparable to a chocolate manufacturer adding sawdust to its favourite chocolate bar, reducing it it size, bumping up the price, telling the public how wonderful it is, and wondering why the sales have slumped. The whole scenario is unpalatable.
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