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Industry Moves: Ministry Of Sound, WhiteLabelDating.com, Moreth>n, eBay, MediaCity UK

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Ministry Of Sound: So often a digital leader, the dance music brand has lost internet and innovation head Rudy Tambala (pictured) and mobile head Patrick Hagenaar, NMA says. Tambala has switched to consultancy, Hagenaar has joined the Marvellous mobile agency. MosTV head Assia Grazioli-Venier left last year.

WhiteLabelDating.com: The Windsor-based dating site facilitator has lured Match.com’s finance director Darren Damiano to the same post and DatingDirect.com’s UK marketing manager Katie Mowe to be its consumer marketing and PR manager. Mowe’s tasks include branding for singles365.com, justsingles.com and datingagency.com. Release.

Moreth>n: The insurer is adding rival Swiftcover.com’s e-commerce marketer Ian Hood as its e-business head, charged with driving web income. Via BrandRepublic.

eBay Continuing its European expansion, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has hired Titan Outdoor’s head of sales Rob Bassett as head of “integrated partnerships”. His job is to secure ad partnerships and make sure brand campaigns are integrated into the eBay platform—a role he carried out previously at Associated Northcliffe Digital. From Marketing.

MediaCityUK: Peel Media, the company behind Salford’s forthcoming new media and broadcasting centre MediaCityUK, has appointed Paul Clennell as the project’s chief technology officer. He’s currently programme director at Red Bee media and will play a hand in the transition of five BBC departments, including Future Media & Technology, to the centre by 2011. Via How-do.

The JV posted its fourth consecutive quarter earnings decline in July, a loss of €213 million (£183 million; $301 million), after shipping 43 percent fewer phones than a year earlier. Sony lost 14.5 billion yen (£93.1 million; $153 million) through its share in the JV in the same period and it looks like those losses are not being tolerated any more: the company lost 17.3 billion yen (£111 million; $182 million) in Q2 just on equity affiliates.

Sony (NYSE: SNE) has problems all of its own as it wrestles with a stagnating consumer gadget market and the depreciation of the yen and made its third quarterly loss in a row for the three months to June with a deficit of 37.1 billion yen (£238 million; $392 million). So could we see the same huge restructuring drives that the rest of Sony is getting used to? As many as 16,000 full- and part-time staff are set for the axe this year to save 100 billion yen ($1.05 billion)—so based on past form, don’t be surprised if Stringer recommends similarly drastic measures to get Sony Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) out of its slump.

Aug 17, 2009 6:10 AM ET

Rudy Tambala


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