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To nobody’s great surprise the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked the attempted £7bn merger of Sainsbury’s and Walmart-owned Asda, saying: “It’s our responsibility to protect the millions of people who shop at Sainsbury’s and Asda every week. ...

More Christmas stuff, this time AMV BBDO’s first effort for new client Asda, a veritable snowy wonderland. Read this morning that the end of November in the UK will see us buried in snow so we might all be fed ...

We can imagine the euphoria that swept over AMV BBDO on Friday when they won Asda from Saatchi & Saatchi. The picture above, Tweeted by AMV on Friday with the caption, “Let the celebrations begin,” shows just how ecstatic the ...

AMV group CEO Cilla Snowball should have been sitting down with a nice glass of Asda prosecco tonight until – ping! – it emerges that Walmart-owned Asda in the UK is about to merge with Sainsbury’s, the massive UK supermarket ...

That didn’t take them long. Two years after losing longstanding supermarket client Sainsbury’s to Wieden+Kennedy AMV BBDO has bounced back, winning Walmart-owned Asda in the UK from Saatchi & Saatchi. Asda chief customer officer Andy Murray says: “We are delighted ...

Well it was proving a good week for Publicis Groupe boss Arthur Sadoun (see here) but now he’s learned that Asda, which moved everything into Publicis Groupe two years ago (creative to Saatchi & Saatchi and media to Blue 449) ...

Saatchi & Saatchi has signed up TV chef James Martin to front its first campaign since winning back the business from VCCP. Asda is in a right old mess, bludgeoned by Aldi and Lidl and facing a slowly recovering Tesco ...

The latest news of Asda appointing Saatchi & Saatchi is the latest in retailers feeling the pinch and therefore looking for a quick fix. The reality is that former agency VCCP and S&S have similar levels of talent in their ...

Asda’s £100m creative account is returning to Saatchi & Saatchi after less than three years at VCCP. The move follows the appointment of a new chief customer officer Andy Murray from Asda owner Walmart. Saatchi handles Walmart creative in the ...