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By Stephen Foster on February 1, 2012
Lord Bell (Tim Bell as was) and Piers Pottinger are reported to be organising a management buy-out of Bell Pottinger, the PR company they founded in 1989 when Bell left ad agency Lowe Howard-Spink (& Bell). Bell Pottinger, currently owned by Chime Communications, the marcoms company Bell heads, is one of the UK’s biggest PR [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, PR | Tagged Bell Pottinger, Burson-Marsteller, chime, fast track vccp, Hill & Knowlton, Lord Bell, lowe howard-spink & bell, management buyout, Piers Pottinger, PR, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Staff on January 31, 2012
WPP’s ever-expanding gaggle of media companies – Mediacom, Mindshare, MEC, GroupM and Kinetic – have been on the regulators’ radar somewhere for some time (WPP probably wouldn’t be allowed to buy Aegis for example) but Sir Martin Sorrell’s outfit probably never expected a challenge in the north of England. But now the UK’s Office of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged aegis, Asda, brilliant media, carat, competition commission, dfs, groupm, mediacom north, mindshare, north of england, office of fair trading, OFT, pre-pack administration, Sir Martin Sorrell, starcom, WPP
By Staff on January 27, 2012
The rise to media dominance of affable Brit Dominic Proctor (pictured) continues apace with his promotion to the new post of president of GroupM, increasingly the driver of WPP’s many and varied media operations which include Mindshare, MediaCom, MEC and out of home operation Kinetic. Equally dramatic is the promotion of Mindshare’s London-based chief strategy [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged Antony Young, Dominic Proctor, groupm, Irwin Gotlieb, kinetic, mec, mediacom, mindshare, Nick Emery, Phil Cowdell, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Staff on January 26, 2012
Publicis Groupe’s Maurice Levy has been a bit slow out of the blocks in 2012 compared to great rival Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP but the French marcoms giant has broken its duck for the new year by buying Moscow’s The Creative Factory, a non-traditional agency specialising in shopper marketing, events and digital production. TCF [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged aegis, Alex Shifrin, burger king, carat, general motors, idea, ikea, israel, Jordan, Maurice Levy, media agency, moscow, publicis groupe, russia, saatchi & saatchi, Sam Rothman, shalmor avnon amichay, Sir Martin Sorrell, starcom, tcf, the creative factory, union media, WPP deals
By Stephen Foster on January 25, 2012
WPP is launching JWT Jordan by way of a deal to buy 51 per cent of the assets of marketing communications firm IDEA. JWT has worked with IDEA for a number of years now and the company will be renamed JWT Jordan. This is the seventh mini-deal from so far this year by the ever-acquisitive [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, PR, Research | Tagged Burson-Marsteller, davos, deals, fox, grey, groupm, idea, jwt jordan, mec, mindshare, ogilvy, Sir Martin Sorrell, touch, unilever, WPP
By Stephen Foster on January 18, 2012
Publicis Groupe has added yet another digital company to its vast array of same, France’s Mediagong agency which employs about 50 people and will work with Leo Burnett. Mediagong’s clients include Accor hotels, Bel, Crédit Agricole, Danone, Dessange International and Lindt. At the same time (well, yesterday) WPP has bought yet another Chinese company, social [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegismipsos, big fuel, China, cic, Dell, france, general motors, kantar, leo burnett, Maurice Levy, mediagong, Nestle, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, tns, WPP
By Stephen Foster on January 16, 2012
Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy may still be waiting to see if General Motors’ Joel Ewanick dumps his company from GM’s $3bn global media account but another high profile client, Sprint’s Bill Malloy (pictured), is doing his best to soften any blow by adding Sprint’s $1bn media account to the creative and digital business he [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged $1bn media account, Antony Young, Bill Malloy, Dominic Proctor, general motors, Joel Ewanick, Maurice Levy, media reviews, mindshare, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, sprint, team sprint, unilever
By Staff on January 10, 2012
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (who, according to a Sunday Times list at the weekend has £2bn to spend) has made a small dent in his cash pile by buying a majority stake in Pakistan’s Oasis Insights, a research and consultancy business based in Karachi. Pakistan is one of the ‘Next 11′ world economies Sorrell [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, Research | Tagged engro foods, Goldman Sachs, karachi, mobilink, next 11 economies, oasis insights, pakistan, ptc, research and consultancy business, Sir Martin Sorrell, turkey, ufone, unilever, vietnam, WPP
By Stephen Foster on January 6, 2012
Yet another one-time WPP employee, Steve Simpson, formerly CEO of GroupM’s Business Sciences division and an employee of Mindshare, has fallen foul of the marcoms giant’s insistence that departing employees play things by the book. Not only that but Simpson (pictured) seems to have lost his new job at data-based consultant Marketshare EMEA Partners too. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged adam & eve, apology, data-based consultancy, Everystone, groupm business sciences ceo, John Lewis, legal action, marketshare emea partners, minshare, oystercatchers, Sir Martin Sorrell, Steve Simpson
By Stephen Foster on January 2, 2012
At the fag end of 2010 we awarded our Person of the Year gong to Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft. You might not like her much but she gets things done (like buying Cadbury) and in 2011 was also probably the most significant person in advertising and marketing by announcing that Kraft was to be split [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, Research | Tagged Andrew Robertson, bartle bogle hegarty, bbdo, carat, david jones, dentsu, Elizabeth Badinter, general motors media, Iren Rosenfeld, Jerry Buhlmann, Maurice Levy, mcgarrybowen, Nick Brien, omnicom, person of the year, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, wieden+kenndey
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