New arrivals join Enesco brand team

Gift supplier Enesco has announced changes to its brand team.

Iain McGeary joins as senior brand marketing manager, heading up the brand team on a day-to-day basis. Iain is an experienced marketing and brand manager, who brings with him extensive knowledge gained during his most recent roles in the sports fishing industry. In his spare time Iain can be found spending time with his three children and is a Newcastle United season ticket holder.

Adi Jones was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and now lives in Cockermouth in Cumbria where she started playing rugby at the age of 45. Adi has joined Enesco to support the brand, sales and marketing teams as a product administrator, assisting with the all-important forecasting (among other things). Adi has completed two masters degrees, while raising her daughter, and has even found time to be an extra in the film Supernova, with Colin Firth.

Tom Dunning-Lewis and Enesco are a perfect match with Tom’s passion for interior design, collectables, digital technology, house plants and craft gin. Tom has joined the Enesco team as brand marketing manager, and has a varied skillset having previously worked with a PR agency in Brighton, a UK charity in Uganda and an international company specialising in fire protection.

Finally, Enesco welcomes Summer Cottam to the e-commerce team as a digital assistant. Summer is passionate about digital creation, marketing and art. Having grown up in Spain, Summer is fluent in Spanish and in her free time hikes, gardens and knits.

Aline Mellor, head of marketing and ecommerce at Enesco, said:

“At Enesco we have had a lot of change with our new ownership, opening up new opportunities for our teams to expand, bringing in fresh ideas and a drive for a brighter future. We are now the UK leader in home fragrance for the independent gift sector and with an ever-changing landscape in our industry, changes were needed to keep us at the top of our game.’’

Ohh Deer takes on UWP Luxe distribution

Ohh Deer has become the official UK distributors of UWP Luxe, making the US company’s entire pop-up card catalogue available to the UK market.

Monika Brandrup, VP and creative director of UWP Luxe/Up With Paper, said: “We are delighted to have Ohh Deer become the exclusive UK distributor of UWP Luxe, our leading design-driven pop-up cards, and boxed notes. They are the perfect partner to fully introduce UWP Luxe to the UK market.”

Ohh Deer has plans to debut UWP Luxe designs at Harrogate Home & Gift. Due to the timing of the show, a large focus and the theme of their display will be centred around holidays/Christmas.

“We are thrilled to become the official UK distributors of UWP Luxe. We think their 3D cards are second to none and can’t wait to bring them to life at Harrogate Home & Gift and at Top Drawer in September,‘’ said Alex Turner, sales manager at Ohh Deer.