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Is Miles Nadal's MDC Partners starting to unravel?

Is Miles Nadal’s MDC Partners starting to unravel?

By Staff on November 1, 2012

Canada-based MDC Partners, run by financier Miles Nadal (left), has challenged the big boys of the advertising arena by snapping up a number of well-regarded agencies, most notably Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Anomaly, 72and Sunny and Kirshembaum Bond. MDC has never made a profit, preferring instead to surf over a tidal wave of borrowed money in the [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged 72andsunny, anomaly, crispin porter+bogusky, Lori Senecal, mdc partners, Microsoft, Miles Nadal, windows 8

CFOs and account supremos (male versions only) trouser the riches of adland

CFOs and account supremos (male versions only) trouser the riches of adland

By Stephen Foster on May 23, 2012

We’ve wondered before here whether adland is a white boy’s club and it certainly seems to be in its upper echelons according to Business Insider’s list of the best-paid 33. But, rather surprisingly, it’s the bean counters who are high up the rich list, Omnicom’s Randall J. Weisenberger (hardly a household name although maybe he [...]

Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged account supremos, adland, Andrew Robertson, best-paid 33, business insider, cfos, david jones, Jerry Buhlmann, Maurice Levy, Miles Nadal, omnicom, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tom Carroll, WPP

Can TargetCast acquisition help ambitious MDC Partners' Maxcomm make a splash in media?

Can TargetCast acquisition help ambitious MDC Partners’ Maxcomm make a splash in media?

By Stephen Foster on March 26, 2012

it was only a matter of time before Miles Nadals’ ambitious marcoms group MDC Partners tackled the world of media planning and buying in a serious way and it has taken the plunge by buying a majority stake in US media independentTarget Cast, managed by founders Steve Farella and Audrey Siegel. TargetCast claims billings of [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged 72andsunny, anomaly, Audrey Siegel, crispin porter, expedia, group, mdc partners, Miles Nadal, pfizer, publicis groupe, Steve Farella, targetcast, us media independent, vivaki, WPP

Ever-ambitious MDC Partners snaps up fashion agency Laird+Partners

Ever-ambitious MDC Partners snaps up fashion agency Laird+Partners

By Angie Dean on September 19, 2011

Miles Nadal’s Toronto-based MDC Partners, owner of Crispin Porter+Bogusky and 72andSunny among others, has bought a majority stake in high-flying fashion ad agency Laird+Partners. Laird was founded in New York by Trey Laird in 2002 and numbers Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Karl Kagerfeld and Calvin Klein among its clients. It also works for Hilton hotels, [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance | Tagged 72andsunny, acquisition, burberry, calvin klein, crispin porter+bogusky, donna karan, ebay, hilton hotels, karl lagerfeld, laird+partners, luxury goods, LVMH, mdc partners, Miles Nadal, tommy hilfiger, toronto, Trey Laird

MDC Partners narrows losses on sharply rising revenue but cash position still looks precarious

MDC Partners narrows losses on sharply rising revenue but cash position still looks precarious

By Stephen Foster on April 29, 2011

Ambitious Canada-based marcoms group MDC Partners has narrowed its first quarter losses from $10.2m to $8.7m on sharply rising revenue (up from $136m to $217m) but the company, which owns Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners, a chunk of LA agency 72andSunny and a recently-acquired 60 per cent of Anomaly among many [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged 72andsunny, anomaly, burger king, crispin porter bogusky, kirshenbaum senecal & partners, Kraft, mdc partners, Miles Nadal

Hotshop Droga5 gets dramatically bigger as it raids Y&R and BBH in New York for top creative hires

Hotshop Droga5 gets dramatically bigger as it raids Y&R and BBH in New York for top creative hires

By Stephen Foster on March 24, 2011

Does Dave Droga, founder of hotshop Droga5, have a big account in his pocket that he’s not telling us about? The New York agency has just rehired Kevin Brady, this time as a group creative director, after just one year away as a global creative director at Y&R on Bacardi, Dell and Virgin Atlantic (he [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged burger king, coi, crispin porter bogusky, Dave Droga, droga5, Ian Reichenthal, Jason Nichols, Joakim Saul, John Townshend, Kevin Brady, Late Waters, Maja Fernqvist, Mark Lund, Miles Nadal, now, saatchi & saatchi, Scott Vitrone, toyota, young & rubicam

Ever-acquisitive MDC Partners buys 60 per cent of hot shop Anomaly

Ever-acquisitive MDC Partners buys 60 per cent of hot shop Anomaly

By Angie Dean on February 10, 2011

There’s no holding Canada-based MDC Partners and the ambitious marcoms groups has followed its purchase of a minority stake in LA’s 72andSunny with a deal to buy 60 per cent of controversial integrated agency Anomaly, based in New York and London. Anomaly, which authored Super Bowl ads for Budweiser and Motorola this year, was formed [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged 72andsunny, anomaly, Budweiser, cannes, Carl Johnson, diesel, mdc partners, Miles Nadal, motorola, outdoor grand prix, simons palmer clemmow & johnson, Sony

Now MDC Partners buys minority in LA agency 72andSunny

Now MDC Partners buys minority in LA agency 72andSunny

By Stephen Foster on December 16, 2010

It doesn’t look as though the corporate lawyers will be getting home for Christmas this year, bids and deals are beginning to flow in the ad industry at last. Toronto-based MDC Partners, owner of Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Kirschenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners to name but two, has bought a minority stake in hot [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged 72andsunny, bmw, Glenn Cole, gsd&m idea city, jello, John Boiler, kirshenbaum bond senecal & partners, Kraft, Matt Jarvis, mdc partners, Miles Nadal, milka, Robert Nakata

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