LONDON - Specialized Bicycles has appointed Gravity Thinking to handle marketing with a social media brief for the UK launch its Globe brand in March.

The Awards for National Newspaper Advertising, ABC chairman John Mayhead’s leaving dinner at Quaglinos and Specific Media’s retox party

LONDON - Nokia’s Ovi application store is now attracting one million downloads a day around the world, the company has claimed.

LONDON - Alberto-Culver, the American packaged goods company and owner of Simple Health & Beauty, has launched a global review of its creative and media account, including its £15m business in the UK.

LONDON - Visit Wales, the Welsh Assembly’s tourism body, has parted company with its direct marketing agency, Partners Andrews Aldridge, by mutual consent.

LONDON - DMA spokesman Robert Keitch has praised the impact outgoing Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier has had on direct marketing during his seven-year tenure and said he could help the cause further in his new role heading ITV.

LONDON - Future, the specialist publishing group, has appointed Carat associate director Steve Payne to the new role of ad planning director.

LONDON - The DMA has launched DataSeal, a new information security standard specifically for companies and agencies that use consumer data for marketing.

LONDON - From this week listeners tuning into Bauer Media stations Kiss 100 and Magic 105.4 via their iPod will be able to tag songs, to purchase later, while listening to the radio.

LONDON - Data and direct marketing group Indicia has merged its two agencies Entire and Marketing Databasics together under the Indicia name and parted company with chief executive David Perkins.