By Stephen Foster on May 30, 2013
One of UK medialand’s best-known execs Nigel Sharrocks is stepping down following the completion of the £3.2bn sale of Aegis Media to Japan’s Dentsu. Sharrocks (left), 56, was CEO of Aegis Media global brands, one of those rather mystifying titles currently in vogue – he was jolly important anyway. Before this he was boss of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Aegis Media, alan Rich, bmp, carat, davidson pearce, dentsu, Fiona Bruce, Jerry Buhlmann, mediacom, Nigel Sharrocks, Peter Huijboom, warner brothers, WPP
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 February 13, 2013
Will Dentsu’s £3.2bn takeover of Aegis ever actually happen? Dentsu has been telling us for months that it’s only a matter of time – time needed to win regulatory approval in China, where Dentsu is desperate to expand and sees Aegis as a way of doing so. Now the Chinese seem to have thrown another [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged aegis, China, chinese regulators, dentsu, lunar new year, omnicom, posterscope, takeover deal, talon
By Stephen Foster on January 31, 2013
This video has surfaced on YouTube purporting to describe the reaction of Dentsu-owned Postercope to Talon’s win of OMG’s humungous UK outdoor buying business – £150m or so. Dentsu bought media-buying independent Aegis for £3.2m last year and Posterscope, its outdoor buying business which has carved up the global market with WPP’s Kinetic over the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, dentsu, Eric Newnham, kinetic, omg, omnicom medis group, outdoor media buying, posterscope, talon, video, WPP, £150m account
By Stephen Foster on January 16, 2013
China and Japan aren’t always the best of pals (that’s enough serious political analysis for now) and Japanese marcoms giant Dentsu has therefore found it difficult to expand in its neighbour’s huge market. The traditional Dentsu model, providing absolutely everything including its own media channels, hasn’t worked very well anywhere else; other countries like to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, News | Tagged adidas, aegis, China, ddb, dentsu, grey, japan, Kitty Bu, mcgarrybowen, pfizer, reebok, thoughtful china, Tim Andree
By Staff on January 8, 2013
Todd Hansen (left), former president of Aegis-owned Posterscope in the US, will be breathing a big sigh of relief as his penalty for a $20m accounting fraud has resulted in a New York court sentence of just four months in jail, three years of supervised released and fines and restitution amounting to just over $400,000. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged aegis, dentsu, James Buckley, posterscope, Todd Hansen, us fraud convictions
By Stephen Foster on December 19, 2012
OK, here we go: after a not very scientific analysis of the ruminations of Paul Simons, Giles Keeble, Jerry Judge, George Parker, Stuart Smith and myself we come to: Agency of the Year Wieden+Kennedy London. For lots of good stuff, TV, online, posters and print. The big test, for W+K London, as we’ve said before, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged 2012, 72andsunny, ad of the year, aegis, agency of the year, Ajaz Ahmed, akqa, bbh, dentsu, grey, Jerry Buhlmann, Neil Christie, network of the year, person of the year, samsung, Tesco, wieden+kennedy london
By Stuart Smith on December 17, 2012
All right, league tables of achievement are as commonplace as turkeys right now. Why burden you with another one? Well, I’ve been asked to – by the good folk at More About Advertising. So: Ad of the Year. Yes, I liked BBH’s The Three Little Pigs and Creative Artist Agency’s Cannes Chipotle winner. Also, Del [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged ad of the year, aegis, agency of the year, bbh, dentsu, follow the frog, Jerry Buhlmann, John Napier, person of the year, rainforest alliance, Stuart Smith, three little pigs, wieden+kennedy
By Staff on December 10, 2012
Former Synovate CEO Peter Huijboom (left) is returning to Aegis as its first ‘global director of business integration,’ charged with identifying ‘revenue synergies’ between Aegis and new owner Dentsu, which bought the media buying network for £3.2bn earlier this year. The deal is still awaiting formal approval from Chinese regulators who don’t seem to like [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, dentsu, ipsos, Jerry Buhlmann, Peter Huijboom, synovate
By Staff on December 6, 2012
Those agencies without a big car account will be preparing to work overtime at Christmas as Honda reviews its $500m Honda and near-$200m Acura accounts in the US. Both accounts have been with indie agency RPA since 1986 and it would be a possibly fatal blow to RPA if they were to move. RPA is [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged $700m agency review, chrysler, dentsu, honda, mcgarrybowen, rpa, us, wieden+kennedy
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