New Zealand’s largest listed shopping centre owner, Kiwi Property, is to make its first foray into television sponsorship, partnering with TVNZ to deliver the fashion and beauty segment in season two of lifestyle programme Kiwi Living.

The Marketing Association has elected two new board members for the 2016-2018 term – Bindi Norwell (executive director of TNS Global) and Tony Mitchell (business consultant at Datamine). Re-elected for the same period was Stuart Yorston (general manager, Sealord).

A new marketing agency has opened for business in Auckland – called Casual Fridays, run by journalist Debbie Harrison and designer/marketer Cameron Harrison.

The One Show has released its finalists in Social Media, Mobile, UX/UI and Interactive – featuring seven campaigns from NZ.

Sydney-based Curious Film executive producer Peter Grasse – a very well-known character on this side of the Tasman – is set to make a much-anticipated talk at Cannes this year, according to a report in Australia’s Campaign Brief.

The Commission for Financial Capability and Saatchi & Saatchi NZ have unveiled a new Sorted website with the mouse heading off to a well-earned retirement.

Fast-growing Westhaven-based agency Chemistry Interaction has won a pitch for the newly launched helloworld travel business and will take charge of brand, strategy, digital and creative in New Zealand with immediate effect.

Robert Munro, previously GM at NewsWorks some years ago (and a past writer of an insightful monthly column about newspapers in AdMedia when the print magazine was run by M+AD ed David Gapes), has surfaced in a new role.

The world’s current No 1 rugby league team – the Kiwis – will wear BLK jerseys into next year’s World Cup campaign and beyond, after the NZRL renewed a four-year contract with the global sports apparel company.

Auckland-based cross-cultural communication agency Bananaworks is spreading the word about WeChat and Weibo via a MINI case study published on WeChat.