Seagram has poached one of its arch-rival's top marketers, James Espey, to head its newly-formed global whiskies division.

In 2008 and 2010, he was awarded one of BtoB Magazine's top marketers of the year and was No. 22 on Advertising Age's "Power Player."

Once a tiny British peddler of stereo systems and television sets, Amstrad has become Europe's top marketer of home computers and one of its fastest-growing companies.

Rich Ross, Disney's studio chairman, stunned Hollywood in April 2010 by picking Ms. Carney as his top marketer after a prolonged search.

The company is a top direct marketer of contact lenses that has shown 60 percent earnings growth since 1999.

And Aventis, while it has a larger marketing presence in the United States than Sanofi, is not one of the country's top marketers.

That ranked Gillette as No.43 on a list of the world's top global marketers compiled by the trade publication Advertising Age and based on 2003 data, the most recent available.

As Louise Sunshine, one of the city's top marketers of luxury real estate, including several condominiums on 59th Street, has said, "All square feet are not equal."

Dunaway was named one of the 100 top marketers by Advertising Age.

John Krimsky, the Olympic committee's former top marketer, said that sponsoring an Olympics overseas could be beneficial to American companies.