Lions Festivals, organiser of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, has announced it is extending its joint venture with Haymarket Media. The partnership currently runs Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity and the Asian Marketing Effectiveness Festival (AMEs) and will now also include the Digital Media Awards for Asia. 
The 2012 Digital Marketing Awards will take [...]

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Adam Stewart (pictured) charts how commerce has changed in just a few months and discusses ways to reach a borderless 24/7 shopping community.
Over the last 18 months, the e-commerce sector has seen phenomenal growth and, despite tough conditions on the high street, sales online remain buoyant. In fact, research from Forrester has predicted that online retail [...]

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This year, organisers of the major Cannes Lions awards are honouring Jack Dorsey (pictured) – creator, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Twitter and the co-founder/CEO of Square. 
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the world’s largest celebration of creativity in communications. Each year, it presents the Media Person of the Year Award to a [...]

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Facebook is critical in helping brands build momentum in emerging markets, new data from social media analytics provider Socialbakers reveals. Just days before the most-anticipated initial public offering in history, Socialbakers proves just how powerful the 901 million-member Facebook platform is for big brands looking to expand their global footprint and penetrate emerging markets.

With 901 [...]

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President Bill Clinton will address delegates at the 59th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France next month.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the foundation of Grupo ABC, the largest communications group in Latin America, he will take to the stage in the Palais des Festivals in Cannes on Thursday evening, June 21, and [...]

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The winners of the 2012 CLIO Awards, one of the world’s most recognised awards competitions honouring excellence in advertising, design and communications, have been announced by organisers Prometheus Global Media. The international competition received morre than 11,000 submissions from countries around the world, including Vietnam, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. Recipients of Grand, Gold, Silver and [...]

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Winning market share in foreign markets; aligning a global workforce; competing with strong local players – these are key objectives for companies as they fight for growth and success. 
Creating a strong emotional connection with consumers, regulators and opinion leaders around the world means businesses increasingly need to learn to go global in the modern ‘reputation [...]

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Americans and French ‘are more imaginative’, study shows.
When it comes to creativity, Americans and French people take pride in developing creative concepts, while Brits complain they don’t have time.
In fact, there’s a big difference between nationalities when it comes to being creative and willing to be involved in creative tasks – as online international consumer [...]

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Comprehensive data service, Eurocontactpool, is to be made available to business-to-business (B2B) companies in the Czech Republic for the first time.
The move is expected to help drive the Czech Republic’s growing export economy, which is increasing every year, by enabling Czech firms to access prospect customers right across Europe.
EuroContactPool will be offered in the Czech [...]

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DHL Global Forwarding and Freight business units – part of Deutsche Post DHL – are being united in a new logistics centre in Italy, to provide a fast gateway for airfreight, export and import flows.
The centre (pictured), near Milan, has a total ground territory of more than 83,000 m2 and warehouse space of 26,000 m2 [...]

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