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By Paul Simons on May 2, 2012
The latest news that Miller Coors has consolidated its $200m business in to ‘Team WPP’ throws up a number of questions that are likely to be talked about in the HQs of the global networks. The key one I would guess is: “Will more global clients follow suit?” The obvious question for me is, if [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged agency review, chicago office, coors, IBM, Lou Gerstner, ogilvy & mather, one brand one voice, Paul Simons, Sir Martin Sorrell, team wpp, turf wars, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 1, 2012
Miller Coors, the North American beer venture between SAB Miller and Molson Coors, has sacked long-time Coors agency Interpublic-owned DraftFCB and succumbed to the temptations of an offer from WPP to combine the talents of JWT, Ogilvy, Y&R and Grey. The account is worth about $200m. Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi has held on to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged Andy England, chevrolet, commonwealth agency, coors brands, draft fcb, ford, Interpublic, Joel Ewanick, miller coors, miller lite, molson coors, news coprporation, Pepsi, saatchi & saatchi, sab miller, sc johnson, Sir Martin Sorrell, team wpp, Vodafone, WPP
By Staff on May 1, 2012
The big marcoms groups have been defying gravity recently with their financial results, all of them growing way ahead of growth rates in Western economies where most of their business is still based. So the various big bosses have been doing well with WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell awarded a £13m ($20m) pot (although some of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Interpublic, Jack Klues, Jean-Yves Naouri, John Wren, kevin roberts, Maurice Levy, mccann worldgroup, Michael Roth, Nick Brien, omnicom, pay rises, publicis groupe, saatchi & saatchi, Sir Martin Sorrell, vivaki, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 1, 2012
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s base pay last rose from £1,m to £1.3m (relatively modest by current CEO standards, as he says) but his pay and benefits package rose from £4.23m to £6.77m including a payment from WPP’s short term bonus scheme. On top of this he received nearly £5.6m of shares under the company’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged bonuses, brandedge, digital, infosys, John Wren, kantar, Maurice Levy, research, Sir Martin Sorrell, succession planning, tns, WPP, £1.3m base pay, £13m package
By Staff on April 30, 2012
Here something to chill the hears and wallets of agency folk everywhere (actually they might be one and the same). The ad business’s favourite ‘frenemy’ Google is rolling out its Adwords for Video offer with TrueView video ads aimed at (it says) smaller advertisers. Agencies’ big fear has always been clients going direct to media [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged adwords for video, Agencies, frenemy, google, Iain Tait, media agencies, Sir Martin Sorrell, tech companies, trueview, wieden+kennedy, Youtube
By Stephen Foster on April 27, 2012
The Red Brick Road, Tesco’s UK agency for seven years, has accepted the inevitable and resigned the £110m account, all of it, it seems, including Tesco Bank, Tesco.com and trade marketing which is was supposed to be keeping. Which raises two questions: is there a future for TRBR? And where else can Tesco go other [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged adam & eve, CHI, David Hackworthy, ddb, John Lewis, JWT, mccann, oystercatchers, Paul Hammersley, Paul Weinberger, publicis, Rick Bendel, rkcr/y&r, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tesco, the red brick road, trbr, walmart, £110m account
By Staff on April 27, 2012
Marcoms giant WPP grew its like-for-like revenue four per cent in the first quarter of 2011, slightly ahead of budget and roughly in line with recent figures from biggest rivals Omnicom and Publicis Groupe. Latin America was the fastest-growing region with the double-dip recession UK doing surprisingly well at three per cent. Pleasingly for boss [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, carat, first quarter results, ipsos, isobar, Jerry Buhlmann, kantar, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns custom, vizeum, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 24, 2012
The Brits and the French spent much of the 18th century vying for control of India (the Brits won, of course) and the two old adversaries seem to be busily engaged in another contest to the death on the sub-continent, this time in all things digital with respective national marcoms flagships WPP and Publicis Groupe [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aig, brandedge, digital marketing, digitas, hsbc, India, indigo, infosys, kantar, leo burnett, mysupermarket, publicis groupe, razorfish, rosetta marketing group, Sir Martin Sorrell, tata, thomas cook, Vikas Tandon, vivaki, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 23, 2012
That annual entertainment ‘the battle of Sir Martin’s money’ is on its way with WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s base pay set to rise from £1m to £1.25m which, in turn, will trigger much larger bonuses as these are based (via a number of obscure formulae) on base pay. WPP is due to report its [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Research | Tagged aegis, bonus, Eric Schmidt, first quarter results, google, Interpublic, ipsos, John Wren, kantar, Larry Page, Mark Read, Michael Roth, omnicom, pay rise, salary, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns sofres, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 19, 2012
Paul Weinberger, the creative who’s been key to the Tesco account at Lowe & Partners and now the The Red Brick Road, is leaving the agency. Intriguingly, though, he hasn’t said what he’s going to be doing. Weinberger, who’s also chairman of TRBR, says: “I’ve enjoyed a wonderfully collaborative relationship with Tesco over the last [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged lowe & partners, magners, Paul Hammersley, Paul Weinberger, Sir Frank Lowe, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tesco, the red brick road, thinkbox, WPP, £110m account
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