Just days after the closure of Pandora’s Australian office – and its role in NZ – the Pandora team was named sales team of the year at Australia’s Mumbrella Awards, winning a standing ovation from the 1000-strong crowd during commercial director Chris Freel’s acceptance speech.

TVNZ has named a young production manager at opposition network MediaWorks as a winner of TVNZ’s New Blood web series competition with her pilot, Oddly Even.

Hiemat Berlin; AMVBBDO UK; Forsman & Bodenfors Gothenburg; Leo Burnett Frankfurt and McCann Melbourne have all made the finals list at the 25th Annual Cresta International Advertising Awards in New York. But not a Kiwi shop in sight.

Sugar & Partners has picked up the New Zealand Natural Premium Ice Cream creative business after a pitch against unidentified agencies. NZN has worked with a number of agencies – but the incumbent here was likely to have been Work Communications.

All Black Malakai Fekitoa and Danish tennis ace Caroline Wozniacki star in ESPN US magazine’s annual nude Body issue. (But the site’s mainly male editors chose the Wozniaki nude for the cover!)

Tilt Health – an interactive half-day seminar that aims to inspire healthcare marketers to use digital tools to connect with their customers – comes to Auckland on Thursday 3 August.

This year’s New Zealand Direct Marketing Conference will be held in the Auckland CBD at the Crowne Plaza on Tuesday 29 August, between 9am and 5pm.