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By Staff on August 6, 2012
Everybody else in marcoms land may be opening their wallets (or taking a look and then putting it back in their pockets in the case of Publicis Groupe with Interpublic) but Havas boss David Jones has decided that hiring rather than buying people is the thing to do. Now he’s hired former McCann exec Robert [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Andrew Benett, arnold, david jones, havas, mccann, Nick Brien, Robert LePlae, tbwa/chiat day
By Stephen Foster on November 11, 2011
This is either an interesting strategic move by Interpublic-owned McCann to ape management consultants and lawyers by setting up a specialised practices or a way of shunting New York president Thom Gruhler as far away from the agency as possible. Or maybe both. McCann New York has lost a stream of top executives (as well [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged applebee's, exxon, Hank Summy, ikea catalogue, ikea website, Lee Daley, Linus Karlsson, Lori Senecal, mccann, mccann worldgroup, mccann-erickson, Nestle, Nick Brien, Robert LePlae, telecom and technology practice, Thom Gruhler
By Stephen Foster on November 8, 2011
Life really doesn’t get any better for Interpublic’s McCann Erickson and its bosses Nick Brien, head of McCann Worldgroup, and Linus Karlsson, chairman and CCO of both McCann New York and McCann London. Now Applebee’s Neighbourhood Grill & Bar has announced it is dumping McCann New York although it is staying with sibling media agency [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged $100m creative account, account losses, applebee's neighbourhood grill & bar, bbdo, creative revolution, draftfcb, exxon, ikea catalogue, Lee Daley, Linus Karlsson, Lowe, mad men, mccann-erickson, Michael Roth, Nestle, Nick Brien, ogilvy & mather, Robert LePlae, sc johnson, universal mccann
By Stephen Foster on September 21, 2011
You can’t say it’s unexpected: Nestle recently moved its Nescafe account in the UK from McCann Erickson to Publicis and Publicis has always been Nestle’s favourite agency, not least through the close attention Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy has always paid to one of his biggest clients, just across the border in Vevey, Switzerland. Now [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged creative board, digitas, draftfcb, energy bbdo, Eric Vervroegen, Interpublic, Linus Karlsson, mccann-erickson, Michael Roth, nescafe, Nestle, Nick Brien, ogilvy & mather, omnicom, publicis, publicis groupe, publicis worldwide, razorfish, Robert LePlae, rosetta, sc johnson, Switzerland, vevey, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 15, 2011
Former TBWA/Chiat Day executive Robert LePlae only joined McCann Erickson in 2009 but now he’s on his way as McCann Worldgroup boss Nick Brien’s cultural revolution at the giant Interpublic-owned agency continues. As North American president LePlae was responsible for the agency’s US and Canadian operations. His departure follows that of chief strategy officer Lee [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged Andreas Dahlqvist, Interpublic, Lee Daley, Linus Karlsson, management changes, Matias, mccann worldword, mccann-erickson, Nick Brien, Robert LePlae, tbwa chiat/day
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