Tag Archives: Don Elgie

Don Elgie (left), a one-time McCann London account man, is stepping down as CEO of Creston plc, the quoted marcoms company he founded back in 2001. Elgie, 67, will be succeeded by COO and CFO Barrie Brien. Elgie has had ...

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 ...

Havas boss David Jones is sticking to his policy of shopping in the bargain basement of marcoms land, with Don Elgie’s Creston mini-marcoms outfit revealing that the French-owned firm has bought six per cent of its shares. News emerged of ...

New London agency Now calls itself an “agency for the accelerated world” but in its early days the agency seemed to go into rapid reverse. The agency was formed by former COI boss Mark Lund last year, seemingly with the ...

Lynx’s online campaign featuring glamour model Lucy Pinder was one of the own goals of the year, being (belatedly) banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority. So now Lucy is appearing in a new film saying ‘sorry’ as she ruefully ...

We wrote earlier that DDB London wasn’t the happiest place at the moment with redundancies expected and it’s been hit by another body blow with the departure of four top creatives – Dave Henderson, Richard Denney, Christian Sewell and Andy ...

Former agency boss Steve Blamer is setting himself up as an agency search consultant, without whom no big agency review seems complete these days, and has told Ad Age that the business is rife with double dipping, search consultants taking ...

Timing is all in the retail business and new Morrisons CEO Dalton Phillips, hired last year from Canadian outfit Loblaw to replace Marc Bolland, has clearly decided that the supermarket chain needs a marketing shake-up. Long-time group marketing director Angus ...

Creston CEO Don Elgie was putting a brave face on things as he announced the marcomms group’s latest results in the wake of the sale of ad agency DLKW to Interpublic’s Lowe Worldwide for £28m. Creston made pre-tax profits of ...