John Wren
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China merger delay grates on Omnicom/Publicis nerves
When Omnicom and Publicis Groupe announced their intention to merge in the summer it was thought that the combined group’s…
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WPP’s Sorrell forecasts an Omnicom/Publicis Groupe brain drain when merger closes
The great and good (and maybe not so good) of the technology, media and telecoms world are gathered once again…
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PubliCom top agency managers head to Miami to discover what their future might hold
Oh to be a fly on the wall at the Four Seasons hotel in Miami (below) where about 100 top…
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George Parker: the Big Dumb Holding Company mantra of Omnicom and WPP – screw up and clean up!
Back in 2011 George Parker predicted a future even more dominated by ad agency-based holding companies, a future that is…
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Paul Simons: power meals that mattered with John Wren and various other Omnicom big shots
My previous piece on the famous advertising lunch got me thinking about the ones that were truly about making history.…
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DDB’s Bill Bernbach on the digital revolution – a few decades before it actually happened
Thanks to George Parker for this; Bill Bernbach, legendary founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach, saying in 1977 that ideas and…
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PubliCom merger’s unanswered questions – who’s really in charge, client reaction and WPP’s response
Nearly three weeks on from the seismic news that Publicis Groupe and Omnicom are to merge and still no end…
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Keith Hunt: PubliCom merger is really about the media technology arms race
Keith Hunt (left) is managing partner of Results International. He argues that the main reason for the $35bn PubliCom merger…
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Publicom merger: Will the WPP empire strike back?
Keith Hunt (below) is managing partner of Results International. He examines the likely fall-out of the Omnicom/Publicis merger and the…
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