Finance

Talking of Scandinavia (which we were, Norway anyway) ambitious network M&C Saatchi Worldwide is opening an office in Sweden, its 27th around the world. The new agency will be headed by CEO Bjarte Eide (far right) with co-creative directors Martin ...

It seems that you can’t have too many media agencies these days (unless you’re Omnicom) and Publicis Groupe has quietly launched a third to add to Starcom and Zenith, Spark headed by long-serving Starcom exec Chris Boothe (left). Spark has ...

Oreo, now owned by Mondelez, has added Interpublic’s The Martin Agency to its roster to handle US creative business. Which is a bit of a surprise as we all thought it was headed to Wieden+Kennedy Portland following that agency’s appointment ...

Have the world’s advertisers decided they know everything? Or are the likes of Google providing them with so much data that they don’t need other research companies any more? We’ve remarked before on the way research -or ‘insight’ as it ...

My friend Neil Christie at Wieden+Kennedy London has been shedding some light on the question of agency finances in his excellent (grrr!) Welcome To Optimism blog. Neil’s musing were prompted by the decision by smoothies firm Innocent to review agencies ...

BBH and main retail client Waitrose may have imposed their own self-denying ordinance this Christmas – preferring to expend Delia Smith and Heston Blumenthal on a charity pitch – but it’s wheeled out the fizz (non-vintage definitely) and christmas pudding ...

Microsoft is planning to launch its own retail stores in the UK next year as part of a global roll-out of the permanent and pop-up stores it has launched in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. Unlike Apple Microsoft stores ...

WPP is planning to merge its Grey and Ogilvy agencies in Sweden: which may be a solution to a local problem or a sign of things to come at the world’s biggest marcoms network. WPP says the merger of the ...

Leagas Delaney, an agency that’s been written off more times than founder Tim Delaney has won D&AD pencils, is opening its sixth office, in Los Angeles. Leagas Delaney now has outposts in London, Hamburg, Milan, Prague, Shanghai and Tokyo as ...