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Every week the Careers page profiles a company running a job

advertisement in this issue of Marketing. If you can identify the

company, fax your answer and details to 0171 413 4504. One correct

answer will be picked by our random selector to win a bottle of

champagne.

This week’s mystery company is one of the leading names when it comes to

taking time off and still carries the name of its founder who set it up

in 1841 in Leicester.

It now makes pre-tax profits of pounds 45m and has 1300 representatives

in over 100 counties.

It spent almost pounds 7.5m on advertising in 1997 but is looking for a

new marketing director for its retail division after Dido Harding was

put in charge of its electronic distribution channels. Its ad agency is

BDDP GGT, with media handled by Booth Lockett Makin.

The sector in which it operates was the subject of an investigation by

the Monopolies & Merger Commission, which was resolved in December last

year.

A bottle of champagne goes to Jon Ladd of the Commission for New Towns

for correctly identifying Comet last week