Troubled retailer Marks & Spencer (most of them are pretty troubled these days as online shopping lays waste the UK high street) has sprung a surprise by appointing specialist agency ODD to handle its clothing and home account. The business ...
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Grey London has made what looks like an enterprising appointment in its choice of a new CEO, Anna Panczyk who moves from head of Grey Group in Poland. Grey Group in Poland consists of Grey Warsaw, Testardo (shopper marketing), Grey ...
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WPP CEO Mark Read said he intended to bolster his creative resources – admittedly focussing more on the US – and he’s done so in the UK with the appointment of joint AMV BBDO CCO Adrian Rossi as Grey’s new ...
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Holding company MDC Partners may reel around like a drunken sailor in a storm – it’s currently looking for another CEO and nobody seems to want to buy it – but its component agencies appear to function regardless. Now 72andSunny ...
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Sports drinks are under fire as is just about everything else that comes in a can or plastic bottle these days so Lucozade Sport, now owned by Suntory, is trying to position itself on the side of the angels by ...
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A group of charities and companies (including Facebook, not a charity) have teamed with Police Now to launch a campaign Take:90 trying to make we angry people calm down. Apparently it takes 90 seconds for angry adrenalin to subside. Dr ...
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Shaving is a tedious and, if you use Gillette products, expensive business. The P&G-owned brand is under pressure from cheaper online alternatives so it’s decided to modernise its “the best a man get get” pitch in a new campaign from ...
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WPP is facing a test in the UK as it searches for CEOs to lead two of its biggest agencies, Ogilvy and Grey. Ogilvy’s Charlie Rudd – who was CEO of the ad agency, but recently had the title of ...
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Grey UK CEO Leo Rayman is leaving to head up a new WPP venture, Grey Consulting. The new business (or practice depending on your preference) will be run from London and employ 150 or so consultants drawn from the agency. ...
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