By Stephen Foster on April 26, 2013
First up Huntsworth boss Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer as was) says he wanted to buy leading Chinese PR firm Blue Focus. But now BF, led by Oscar Zhao (left), has, in effect, turned the tables by buying 19.8 per cent of Chadlington’s firm for £36.5m, valuing it at a lofty £180m. This deal has a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Politics, PR | Tagged aegis, asia, blue focus, China, deal, dentsu, hunstworth, Lord Chadlington, omnicom, PR, publicis groupe, WPP
By Stephen Foster on October 19, 2012
Much speculation among the clinking sundowners at Raffles Hotel in Singapore that the venerable Bates agency (now rather reduced as it’s an Asia-only network albeit a large one) might be calling last orders. Bates is now owned by WPP and operates as an arm of the Ogilvy group. Long-serving boss Tim Isaac is retiring and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged asia, bates, David Mayo, ogilvy, Rosser Reeves, ted bates, Tim Isaac, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 21, 2012
Actually it’s a heavyweight against a cruiserweight when you consider the size of the respective networks, vast for BBDO much smaller for W+K. But increasingly these two seem to be the agencies at the top of client minds when they weigh up the attractions of a new agency. Both are competing for BBDO’s Gillette account [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative | Tagged Andrew Robertson, asia, bbdo, Gillette, old spice, olympics, procter & gamble, spikes, Visa, wieden+kennedy
By Staff on April 3, 2012
Talent directors seem to be the new flavour of the month within big marcoms companies and high-flying Maxus, the newest mainstream WPP/GroupM media agency on the block, has just named its first, Madhvi Pahwa (pictured). Pahwa is currently a managing partner at GroupM India and she will be based in India, giving a pretty clear [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, Research | Tagged adweek, asia, coca-cola, groupm, India, Kelly Clark, Madhvi Pahwa, maxus, procter & gamble, relationship media, talent director, us, WPP
By Angie Dean on September 7, 2011
Samsonite and JWT Shanghai won the Press Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes international Festival of Creativity and now Samsonite has picked up advertiser of the year at Asia’s Spikes awards, organised by Cannes and Haymarket. It’s Samsonite’s 100th anniversary so there will have been a few rumbles that this particular gong is rather too [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 100th anniversary, advertisier of the year, asia, cannes, haymarket, jwt shanghai, press grand prix, samsonite, spikes awards
By Stephen Foster on January 17, 2011
They seem to be anyway as the IPA’s latest survey into advertiser intentions shows that 22 per cent of those surveyed cut their budgets in the last quarter of 2010 against 17 per cent that increased them. The IPA represents UK advertising, marketing and media agencies. All is not doom and gloom however, on balance [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged adspend, advertising association, asia, coalition government, far east, group m, ipa bellwether report, itv, marketing spend, WPP
By Stephen Foster on August 25, 2010
Whether it will work or not is another question of course but Levi’s decision to launch a new brand called Denizen in Asia looks like a rational way to approach shed loads of consumers who are immune to the appeal of Levi’s trad, premium-priced jeans. The brand, official nomenclature dENiZEN, combining ‘denim’ with zen for [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged asia, bbh, China, denizen, levis
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