Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Good luck but not goodbye

After seven years as Executive Manager, Strategy & Sales at HOSTPLUS, Umberto Mecchi is moving on to a new challenge.

To wish him all the best with his new venture, THE DM GROUP got together bright and early this morning for some breakfast, bubbly and okay maybe just a little blubbering.

It’s understandable because Umby used to work at trademarkDM before he became a valued client, so we go back a long way.

Good luck Umby.

We’ll miss you. 

Monday, 1 March 2010

Forget the Oscars, here come the Andys

The inaugural Andy Awards were an important part of our latest quarterly catch-up.

Conceived by and named after a very good-looking art director, only three coveted awards are up for grabs each quarter.

This time the honours went to:

• Emily Pockley for Brief of the Quarter
• David Buttigieg and Nina Ee for Creative of the Quarter
• Our in-house treehuggers for Initiative of the Quarter.

Congratulations to our winners.

But be warned, hanging on to your titles next quarter is not going to be easy. The rest of us ‘can come up with that stuff too’.

Friday, 26 February 2010

Three cheers for Hockley

THE DM GROUP quarterly catch-up is a time for all of us to get together, talk about the work we’ve done and have more than a few drinks.

Now you’d assume a quarterly catch-up happens quarterly but it’s actually been 12 months since our previous catch-up.

That meant some of our more enthusiastic colleagues had 12 months of pent-up PowerPoint slides to get out of their system.

So to keep things moving, we had a strict five-minute time limit with the option to buy an extra minute with a shot.

While there are plenty in THE DM GROUP who love a chin wag, none more so than digital planning director, Craig Hockley.

Craig decided to buy two extra minutes before he even started speaking and ended up having to down a third shot by the end of his presentation.

See, we said he’d fit in.

Thursday, 18 February 2010

Why does Craig have to sing every morning?

Because if he doesn’t sing his ‘Got me stuff’ song before he leaves home, he inevitably ends up forgetting something important.

Like his glasses.

Which he found very inconvenient today as he went about his usual senior art director business.

That’s why our ever helpful, handyman/production manager David Findlay made him a new pair.

Isn’t it amazing what you can do with just some pipe cleaners and duct tape?

One thing’s for sure, Craig will be singing every morning from now on.

Friday, 12 February 2010

Hey! We know that guy!

We met Wayne Sullivan in November last year when he came down from Queensland to join our valued client HOSTPLUS as national marketing programs manager.

We’re delighted to hear that Wayne has now been appointed executive manager, marketing.

Is it too soon to say ‘we knew him when…’?

Congratulations on your new role, Wayne. We’re looking forward to continuing to do great work with you.