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It's a good time to be 21 for Omnicom's PHD

It’s a good time to be 21 for Omnicom’s PHD

By Stephen Foster on February 22, 2011

Media agency PHD, number two to OMD in the Omnicom media line-up, is celebrating its 21st birthday and, although it’s always been a darling of the UK business press it now seems to be establishing itself as a genuine world player, recently winning drug giant GSK’s $1.4bn US account and consolidating its hold on $300m [...]

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Media shop PHD crashes the big league with $1.4bn GlaxoSmithKline win

Media shop PHD crashes the big league with $1.4bn GlaxoSmithKline win

By Stephen Foster on December 20, 2010

By beating incumbent WPP-owned MediaCom, Publicis Groupe’s Starcom and Havas’ Media Planning Group in one of the biggest media account moves of the year. The win (drugs giant GSK is America’s 18th biggest advertiser) is a huge coup for PHD, not so long ago seen as the runt of the (two pig) Omnicom media litter [...]

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John Ayling strikes a blow for independents with £2m UK Prudential media win

John Ayling strikes a blow for independents with £2m UK Prudential media win

By Staff on August 6, 2010

The Prudential is one of the world’s biggest insurance companies but it isn’t an A-list advertiser. It might have been if its ambitious bid for bust US insurance giant AIG’s Asian business had gone ahead, but it didn’t. So, confined (for now) to its UK heartland, it’s appointed independently-owned UK media agency John Ayling Associates [...]

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