– Hugh McDermott has been appointed account manager at Target Marketing & Communications in St. John’s, Nfld. McDermott was formerly an account manager at Rumrill Hoyt/Saatchi & Saatchi – New York, and Ginty Jocius & Associates.

– Wunderman Cato Johnson in Toronto has announced that Janet Mainprize has been promoted to media director, making her responsible for all media for Wunderman’s clients, and senior account person for Gevalia Kaffe, Les Enterprises Grolier and Grolier. Mainprize has been with Wunderman for seven years and has been promoted from the media manager position.

– Bill Saul, group vice-chairman at DDB Needham, is retiring effective Dec. 31 after 28 years in the advertising business. Saul started his career at Canadian General Electric before moving on to Ogilvy & Mather in 1967, where he stayed for 10 years. He then moved on to Hayhurst Advertising/Saatchi & Saatchi, where he worked on a number of major accounts before becoming a partner and executive vice-president of Carder Gray Advertising. When Carder Gray merged with DDB Needham in 1990, Saul agreed to stay on for six more years. His departure will be marked with an agency/client function in December.

– Mike Powell was recently appointed executive vice-president and managing director of Young & Rubicam Western and is based in the agency’s 12-person Vancouver office.

Powell was most recently president of Power Smart, selling a turnkey energy conservation program to utilities in North America, the Caribbean and Central Europe.

Before that, he was a partner in Vrlak Robinson Advertising and vice-president of marketing for Consolidated Video Systems.

– At J. Walter Thompson of Toronto, Eugenie (Janie) Burger has been promoted to management director on the Warner Lambert and Scott Paper account.

Burger replaces Tony Pigott, who was recently appointed president of sister agency, Enterprise Advertising.

Burger joined jwt earlier this year from D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, where she was senior vice-president, group account director on the Procter & Gamble business.

– Andrew Bruce has signed on with Young & Rubicam, Toronto as director of business development.

Bruce comes from BAM, Bruce & Myers Creative Directions, where he was managing director.