Roger Sotherton (above) was a business partner of John Donovan and a director of the promotional games company Don Marketing throughout the years in the 1980s and 1990s when it devised a host of promotional games for Royal Dutch Shell around the world. Sadly, Roger passed away on 12 April 2023.
1984 Shell Make Money Game Created And Supplied By Don Marketing
Shell Mastermind Promotional Game Created And Supplied By Don Marketing
Shell Make Merry Harrods Linked Promotional Game Created And Supplied By Don Marketing
Shell Bruce’s Lucky Deal Promotional Game Created And Supplied By Don Marketing
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Shell Star Trek Promotion Created And Supplied By Don Marketing
In the 1980s Don Marketing supplied Shell Make Money games in several countries including Singapore. Promotional games inventor John Donovan is seen here with Shell Singapore posters in December 2020.
Roger Sotherton (above)
Dennis Lambert, Bernie Winters with Schnorbitz the dog and Roger Sotherton. 1982?
Roger Sotherton and Bernie Winters with Top Cash Winners
Roger Sotherton far left with his wife Patsy on his right photographed at Hotel Inter-Continental London event where Don Marketing won an Institute of Sales Promotion Award for the Shell Make Money Game. Also seated at the winner’s table, were John and Jessie Donovan, Ken Brown and his wife. And nearest the camera, John Chambers and his wife Sarah.
Same event. Roger Sotherton with his wife Patsy, Ken Brown and Shell execs including Ken Danson.
Selection of photographs from Rogers’s younger days.
ROGER SOTHERTON 1963?
ROGER SOTHERTON 2 JUNE 1953 STREET PARTY FOR CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH 2: (ROGER bottom right)
ROGER & PATSY SOTHERTON
Roger Sotherton at the age of 23 on holiday staying at the Thunderbird Motel, Collins Ave, Miami Beach in October 1971.
Roger Sotherton aged around 16 on a Norfolk Broads Holiday mid 1960s.
With Robert Donovan on same holiday
Roger aged 15 working at Donovan’s garage in Seven Kings, Essex.
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