Chilly’s makes reusable bottles for keeping drinks cold and it’s running its first campaign with Uncommon Creative Studio, a Christmas effort inviting the world to “gift responsibly.” Uncommon co-founder Nils Leonard says: “Gift Responsibly. Buy stuff that doesn’t kill the ...
Read More »You & Mr Jones limbers up for battle against Sorrell’s S4C with new $250m war chest
There’s an interesting battle developing between David Jones’ You & Mr Jones and Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital, both offering new-style solutions to the world’s big marketers. You & Mr Jones, which calls itself the world’s first BrandTech group (it’s even ...
Read More »Accenture Interactive tipped to bid for M&C Saatchi
The M&C Saatchi share price is up this morning, raising the troubled agency’s market valuation to £90m from the £70m it fell to last week after M&C revealed a whopper £11.6m provision for accounting errors. This, the boys in dark ...
Read More »Long-serving Kantar boss Eric Salama steps down following WPP sale to Bain
Eric Salama, long-time CEO of WPP’s Kantar research operation which is now 60 per cent owned by Bain Capital, is stepping down after 17 years. The sale to Bain completed last week. WPP keeps the balance. Salama (below) is staying ...
Read More »AB InBev readies “punishing” global media review
Brewing giant AB InBev is reported to be reviewing its $4.8bn global media account, just two years after it chose Dentsu’s Vizeum in the US and an assortment of other holding company agencies around the world. To make life even ...
Read More »Coca-Cola adds Santa to Christmas truck fest
We’ve been a little short of Santas in this year’s round of Christmas ads but Coca-Cola has ridden to the rescue, featuring one in a new global campaign running alongside its traditional ‘Holidays Are Coming’ hymn to diesel emissions. ‘What ...
Read More »Does H&M’s ‘moments in between’ fall between two stools?
Adam&eveDDB is hymning the ‘moments in between’ for H&M this Christmas – presumably the little things about the festival, not tables groaning with turkeys, crackers and prezzies. So we have some H&M-wearing Millennials (or are they GenZ? Anyway they’re young) ...
Read More »Completion of Kantar sale marks a good(ish) year for WPP
WPP ends 2019 in rather better shape than it started the year, with the completion of its sale of 60 per cent of research operation Kantar to Bain Capital for about £2.4bn. £1.4bn of this is being retained to reduce ...
Read More »M&C Saatchi directors launch rescue attempt as financial picture darkens
Some at least of the M&C Saatchi founders are showing their support/belief in the stricken agency by reportedly buying shares – David Kershaw, Jeremy Sinclair and Bill Muirhead are said to be increasing their stakes, currently 4.5 per cent each, ...
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