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Save the Children’s UK agency adam&eveDDB has been appointed to handle a new global campaign for Save the Children International with the theme Stop the War on Children. Save the Children was founded by Eglantyne Jebb 100 years ago, in ...

Chicken shops seem to be taking over local high streets in some parts of the UK, filling many of the spaces left vacant by more traditional retailers and selling full meals for £1.50 a portion. KFC makes a virtue of ...

Leading international hotel group Accor has appointed Ogilvy Paris as its global agency of record. Ogilvy’s main task will be the launch and management of a new Accor loyalty programme called ALL (Accor Live Limitless). Accor includes almost 4,800 hotels, ...

Former Wunderman execs have landed the plum roles in the two merged WPP agencies in the UK with Pip Hulbert as CEO and Richard Dunn as CSO and chairman. JWT CEO James Whitehead is moving to a “global client role.” ...

Former Engine head of editorial content Matt Williams is joining MSQ Partners in the newly created post of group head of content. MSQ claims to be the UK’s fastest-growing independent agency group with recent wins including Blu, Church & Dwight, ...

At WPP’s last earnings call, the second since Sir Martin Sorrell jumped ship to avoid the plank, the Ogilvy-to-Kantar behemoth rebranded. The group became a ‘creative transformation company,’ whatever that means. earlier this week, addressing the bafflement that has rippled ...

Ogilvy UK has won buckets of new business recently despite some internal travails but what it needed was a really good ad. Now it has one for Sipsmith Gin, one of the countless new artisan gin brands on the UK ...

London media independent Yonder Media has been appointed as UK media agency for coconut water brand, VitaCoco, without a pitch. Vita Coco, which was founded in New York in 2004, is the world’s leading coconut water brand, and is sold ...

London’s game of CEO musical chairs has taken an interesting twist with former Ogilvy CEO Charlie Rudd rejoining his old boss Annette King at Publicis Groupe – helming Leo Burnett and Fallon – while former CEO of those two Gareth ...