Be happy, it’s finally true: you’re an ageless wonder. At least that’s the message behind more and more marketing today.

Welcome to our annual look at the state of the marketing nation, which includes profiles on the outstanding marketers of the past year as well as a snapshot of the issues and realities facing Canada’s marketing community.

Yes, the brand helped put him on the map. Now strategy‘s Marketer of the Year, Unilever’s Geoff Craig, has his sights set on energizing marketing in Canada

For the unconventional brand with expansion in its plans, it takes an equally unique and unflagging marketer. Meet Mario D’Amico

From third place to first in two years, Ron Bertram has led Nintendo of Canada’s high-scoring comeback

Over 2007, Shoppers Drug Mart’s Michele Slepekis ensured that no opportunity was overlooked when reaching out to the retailer’s consumers and beefing up loyalty

This year, is there really any need to feign suspense?

Don’t let its good looks fool you.

In January, newly promoted L’Oréal Canada VP/CMO Dominique De Celles received a call from Sunni Boot, president and CEO of ZenithOptimedia, the beauty brand’s longtime media agency. Boot all but insisted that De Celles meet with Tony Gagliano, executive chairman and CEO of St. Joseph Communications. ‘That’s something she would normally never do,’ says De Celles. Gagliano was on the hunt for sponsors for an arts and culture festival he was working to bring to life called Luminato.

DDB nurtures a creative culture

The Sopranos finale was supposed to be the big TV story of the summer. Rivaling it (to some, anyway), and happening just a few days earlier, was the CRTC’s decision to nix CTV’s buyout plans for ownership of the sweet spot of the CHUM empire – the five Citytv properties across the country. Rogers quickly jumped into the picture, wasting no time with an offer to purchase the stations.

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We deliberated long and hard over the name for our first socially conscious, eco-friendly awards. It had to suggest change, speak to ROI effectiveness and reflect a certain level of, well, goodness. It also had to attract entries from marketers serious about improving the environment, bettering communities,

With sales of $5.5 billion, 155 stores (each with about 50,000 different kinds of building materials, home improvement supplies, and garden products) what Home Depot does has impact. So it stands to reason that president Annette Verschuren’s bold decision to launch the Eco Options line – before it became trendy – would seamlessly marry cause and action with big results.

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