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 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 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
Crowd-sourcing is all the rage these days (as is digital of course) and newish US-based SEM specialist Trada is using it to provide advertisers with ad packages devised by ‘crowd-sourced specialists, ie freelances. It’s a clever idea and Trada claims that its freelances can earn up to $14,500 per month putting the packages together, up [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged 24/7 real media, bing, crowd-sourcing, digital ad packages, facebook packages, foundry ventures, freelances, google, publicis groupe, razorfish, sem marketing, trada, WPP, yahoo
By Stephen Foster on December 20, 2011
No doubt with all-poweful creative director Graham Fink on the bridge, scanning the horizon for dangers ahead. WPP’s Ogilvy & Mather, which is enjoying a rich vein of form at the moment, is expanding away from Beijing and the coastal region of Shanghai by setting sail up the great Yangtze river as part of a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged beijing, cannes lions, China, Graham Fink, jwt shanghai, nanjing yindu, network of the year, ogilvy & mather, WPP, yangtze region, yangtze river
By Staff on December 20, 2011
Big media accounts are changing hands all over the place at the moment and Publicis Groupe is doing as well as anyone, with Starcom adding the $600m Novartis global account hard on the hells of Digitas winning $1bn Sprint in North America. PG is still waiting to see if $3bn General Motors will confirms its [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged 24/7 real media, activision, digitas, general motors, Joel Ewanick, Maurice Levy, mec, mindshare, novartis, pizza hut, procter & gamble, publicis groupe, razorfish, starcom, toys 'r us, unilever, WPP
By Staff on December 19, 2011
WPP’s creative agencies, especially Ogilvy & Mather, are having a good run in the US at the moment but on the media front, particularly at MEC, it’s not quite so good. MEC, which recently replaced North America CEO Lee Doyle with Marla Kaplowitz (left), has now lost $100m Toys ‘R US to Omnicom’s OMD and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged activision, groupm, kinetic, Lee Doyle, Marla Kaplowitz, maxus, mec, media agencies, mediacom, mindshare, novartis, ogilvy & mather, omd, omnicom, optimedia, phd, pizza hut, publicis groupe, sony ericsson, toys 'r us, WPP
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