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Brand agency Tayburn has appointed Nadine Pierce to the newly-created role of marketing manager.

Toyota GB has come under fire from the advertising watchdog after 74 viewers complained that its ad for the Toyota Yaris Hybrid, encouraged dangerous driving.

A court has fined ad agency Havas Worldwide Kazahkstan 34 million tenge (£116,000) for designing a poster portraying two classical figures engaging in a gay kiss in a scene reminscent of the embrace between the heads of East Germany and the Soviet Union in 1979 (pictured).

Domino's has launched the ‘Pizza Quest’ campaign on Vine featuring six-second loops created by ‘Viners’ Huw Samuel and Leslie Wai.

Twitter and IBM have announced a new partnership which will see the firms combine their data collection capabilities to provide more insightful marketing information to businesses.

Ford Motor Company, together with its local partner Future Automobiles, today awarded a US$20,000 (approximately 2,607,000LKR) grant to the Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka (FOGSL), the 2014 Ford Conservation and Environmental Grants Programme recipient in Sri Lanka.

Velvet, Sri Lanka’s No.1 beauty soap brand clinched three Gold awards including the highest accolade of the night; Brand of the Year 2014, at the recently concluded Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) Brand Excellence Awards 2014.

A 2kg increase in daily plucking average of tea can provide win-win solution.

Mobitel tied up with LAUGFS Holdings recently in an initiative to introduce an efficient Near Field Communication (NFC)-based ‘ONE’ fuel card solution that could be utilised at all LAUGFS filling stations islandwide.

The ‘Jaffna IT Week’, scheduled to be held from 3 to 6 December 2014, is an industry initiative for inclusive growth and reconciliation, driven by SLASSCOM, and supported by the Export Development Board (EDB), Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), Ministry of Education (MOE), University of Jaffna and the Yarl IT Hub.