Tag Archives: chi & partners

Mergers of equals are rather out of fashion at the moment following the Omnicom/Publicis fiasco but that hasn’t stopped Dixons and Carphone Warehouse tying the knot (as we forecast on Monday). The £3.7bn merger looks a reasonable fit on the ...

Johnny Hornby’s CHI & Partners is noted for its account handling abilities and the one of the biggest tests of these for any agency is retaining a big account. CHI pulled out al the stops in the repitch for Argos ...

There will be a few sweaty palms in two London agencies every time the phone rings over the next week or so as incumbent agency CHI & Partners and new pretender Now, set up by DLKW co-founder Mark Lund when ...

My prediction for 2014 in the world of advertising is we will see a few start-ups shake up the UK industry. It’s a long time overdue. The climate is heading towards the perfect conditions for new, shiny and interesting agencies ...

25 years ago today five of us announced the start of a new advertising agency with a front page splash in Campaign magazine. We all met up for lunch that day trying to figure what would happen next. We had ...

Vertu mobile phones are a pretty strange idea. Made by Nokia, the British-based company is now privately owned and still with us even though its phones sell for about £3,000 and sharply upwards. But the owners have obviously decided they ...