By Stephen Foster on November 7, 2012
Which means precisely what, you may say, as it’s quite difficult to determine what’s a consumer product and what’s business to business in tech land these days. Anyway, whatever it is, WPP has wrested some business (possibly a new range of products) from South Korean marcoms outfit Cheil Worldwide, which is still 15 per cent [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged cheil worldwide, Dell, enfatico, razorfish, samsung, Sir Martin Sorrell, team wpp
By Stephen Foster on July 9, 2012
It’s not that long ago that we recounted the experiences of former adwoman Jane Maas on Madison Avenue where, among other experiences, she recounted tales of orgies on board agency parties and referred to the great David Ogilvy as a ‘swordsman.’ That sort of thing doesn’t go on these days, thank goodness, although even one’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 50 shades of grey, Jane Maas, Kate Cronin, ogilvy pr, standard innovation corporation, team wpp, vibrators, we-vibe
By Stephen Foster on May 30, 2012
More than 50 per cent of WPP shareholders are likely to vote against boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s recent pay package according to a report in the Financial Times. Advisory group Institutional Shareholders Services (ISS) says it’s advising its client to vote against Sorrell’s £13m package (about half of which is a ‘new’ deal) and other [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged bank of america, coors, dublin agm, iss, Jeffrey Rosen, John Wren, Maurice Levy, Michael Roth, news corporation, pay package, remuneration committee, shareholder revolt, shareholder spring, Sir Martin Sorrell, team wpp, Vodafone, WPP
By Staff on May 8, 2012
Sir Martin Sorrell has been taking time out from trying to sort a diplomatic incident ‘twixt Argentina and the UK provoked by the latter’s Y&R ‘Malvinas’ commercial, to address the US Association of National Advertisers Financial Management Conference in sunny Florida. In it he no doubt pleased his audience of procurement executives and others by [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged argentina, association of national advertisers financial management coference, bank of america, coors, Dell, enfatico, JWT, malvinas ad, O&M, Sir Martin Sorrell, team wpp, uk, working horizontally, WPP, y&r
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
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