Merlin Appoints Group Marketing Director

As Merlin Entertainments has announced at the beginning of this week, Emma Wood will take up the newly created group-wide marketing role as the company’s first ever Group Marketing Director. Wood, who will join the company at the end of August, is currently working as Group Marketing Director for the Pizza Express restaurant chain. In her new role Wood will be responsible for group marketing and sales functions such as e-Commerce, Group Promotions & Trade, the Merlin Annual Pass, as well as developing the Merlin corporate brand to its key stakeholder groups. Furthermore, the new role will report directly to Merlin CEO Nick Varney. Before joining Pizza Express where she has worked for six years, Wood worked for Unilever. (eap)