By Stephen Foster on April 22, 2013
I suppose poor old DLKW Lowe was bound to get it in the neck from Morrisons – the UK supermarket group has been struggling to keep pace with discounters Asda, Aldi and Lidl and now Tesco has entered that frame as Phil Clarke throws the kitchen sink at reviving its market share. Neither does Morrisons [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged dlkw lowe, halifax, IPG, itv multi-millionaires, m&c saatchi, Morrisons, Tesco, £70m account review
By Staff on April 10, 2013
The out of home market has seen some radical changes as well as strong growth in recent years. Roy Jeans, CEO of leading UK OOH specialist agency Rapport, explains how and why the industry is changing. Last year IPM (International Poster Management) rebranded as Rapport with the slogan “Rewarding Connections”. Why did you choose to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Media, News, Research | Tagged cheil worldwide, initiative media, IPG, kinetic, mediacom, out of home, outdoor, posters, posterscope, rapport, rewarding connections, Roy Jeans, samsung, sky, talon, universal media
By Stephen Foster on March 12, 2013
Then there were three? There are four big marcoms holding companies (if you exclude Dentsu which is still 90 per cent Japan as it waits for clearance from China to buy Aegis): WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and interpublic (IPG). Late last year all the chatter was that Publicis Groupe had made an informal approach for [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Interpublic, IPG, Jim Edwards, Maurice Levy, Michael Roth, omnicom, publicis groupe, takeover, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 12, 2013
Not that much has been going right for Interpublic (IPG) on the agency front recently but General Motors is riding to the company’s rescue. Interim CMO Alan Batey has been busy unravelling former CMO Joel Ewanick’s many controversial decisions since Joel was turfed last year and now luxury brand Cadillac is reported to be headed [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged account move, Alan Batey, cadillac, campbell ewald, chevrolet, commonwealth, fallon, general motors, Interpublic, IPG, Joel Ewanick, publicis groupe
By Stuart Smith on March 11, 2013
So, what was all that about? HSBC’s group marketing director Chris Clark (left) calls a review of the “£400m” (actually rather less these days) global account late last year. Well, not exactly a review. More a series of private meetings that happen to take in the incumbent agency’s rivals at Omnicom, IPG and Publicis – [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged ad review, Chris Clark, hsbc, in the future, IPG, JWT, omnicom, publicis groupe, the world's local bank
By Stephen Foster on December 21, 2012
It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its woof, was Publicis Groupe’s bid for Interpublic. This was the big story of the summer [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, christmas, Dan Wieden, David Petraeus, IPG, Jimmy Savile, Lord Patten, Michael Roth, publicis groupe, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tony Hall, WPP
By Stuart Smith on November 14, 2012
Harris Diamond – who’s he? The new chairman and chief executive of McCann Worldgroup, replacing Nick Brien as of last night – that’s who. Brien’s position has long since looked untenable – to all, that is, except senior Interpublic management. Brien (left) is a dynamic, no-nonsense, deal-cutter, inured to the ways of media-buying, but the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged AOL, commonwealth, exxon, Frank Mergenthaler, golin harris, goodby silverstein & partners, grey, Gustavo Martinez, Harris Diamond, hsbc, Interpublic, IPG, Joel Ewanick, JWT, L'Oreal, Laurence Boschetto, Luca Lindner, lufthansa, Marion Harper, mccann, mediabrands, Michael Roth, Nestle, Nick Brien, octagon, weber shandwick, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 7, 2012
The rumour mill says he is, on account of his supposedly less than fulsome references to either in recent analyst calls. Back in March my colleague Stuart Smith reported that Nick Brien, head of McCann Worldgroup, would be on his bike following a ruckus with big client L’Oreal which declined McCann’s invitation to be lumped [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged draftfcb, Interpublic, IPG, Laurence Boschetto, mccann, Michael Roth, Nick Brien, oreos, sc johnson, super bowl ad
By Staff on October 10, 2012
Interpublic CEO Michael Roth might have turned the company around in financial terms but his big agency brands (headed by McCann, DraftFCB and Lowe) are struggling big time. Now Johnson & Johnson, which spends about $2.7bn globally including $2bn in the US, is reported to be dropping IPG creative agencies Lowe, Deutsch and The Martin [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged band-aid, bbdo, ddb, Interpublic, IPG, johnson & johnson, JWT, Michael Roth, omnicom, tylenol, WPP
By Stuart Smith on March 21, 2012
Omnicom president and CEO John Wren (pictured) has just sold a lot of shares in his own company. Interpublic Group chairman and CEO Michael Roth is about to do the same. What is it that they know, and we don’t? First, some background. Wren sold 258,110 Omnicom shares, worth $12,549,308 on March 9, according to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Interpublic, IPG, John Wren, Michael Roth, omnicom, sec, sell signal, share options, share sales
Recent Comments