Warsaw agency 180hearbeats, part of the German Jung von Matt network, is opening in London. Haven’t they been reading the UK news recently – or heard of Brexit? Leading this audacious venture is business development director Julia Konopka (left) who ...
Read More »Can London continue to dominate UK’s job sector growth?
London jobs continue to grow, but other UK cities are closing the gap on job growth in many industries. So, will London continue to dominate UK job sector growth? London has been leading the job growth race for years without ...
Read More »Asics bets on IAAF championships for new global rebrand
Japanese sports brand Asics has a new global line ‘I Move Me,’ intended to signify the correlation between a sound mind and a sound body. Which few of us have these days, it seems, thanks to the stresses of urban ...
Read More »iZettle and F&B invade London’s Oxford Street with ’12 Hour Store’ for small businesses
Business payments firm iZettle has enlisted Sweden’s Forsman & Bodenfors to help show small businesses how it can make them bigger. So F&B curbed its usual anarchic tendencies and set up a pop-up location in London’s (highly expensive) Oxford Street ...
Read More »Droga5 in London wins Farfetch luxury online business
US star Droga5 hasn’t had the easiest of introductions into London – replacing CEO Kevin Dundas with MD Nick Simons after a tough first year – but it’s finally won some business, luxury online fashion retailer Farfetch, to add to ...
Read More »‘Wonderfilled’ for Mini Oreos shows what London contender The Martin Agency can do
The Martin Agency is supposedly ready to join its American confreres in having a crack at the London market – which should be interesting as the Richmond Virginia-based Interpublic shop is best-known for its sure touch with Americana. So, on ...
Read More »Advertising Week lines up celebs – what about ads?
Haven’t really investigated what joys London’s version of Advertising Week (March 31-April 4) holds for us (although obviously there will be an appearance by Sir Martin Sorrell). But I read in The Drum that, among the ‘highlights’ will be veteran ...
Read More »McCann shuffles the deckchairs as UK boss Chris Macdonald goes to New York
What does it take to be a successful boss of McCann in the UK? Essentially, as captain of the ship, you repel boarders and maintain the agency’s status as the second-biggest in the UK (way behind Omnicom’s AMV/BBDO) even though ...
Read More »Do WPP’s becalmed London creative agencies need a business blood transfusion?
Marcoms giant WPP has four big (or supposedly big) creative agencies in London – JWT, RKCR/Y&R, Grey and Ogilvy – and 49 per cent of the relatively new CHI. But, rather strangely, according to Campaign/Nielsen figures for 2012, JWT, Grey ...
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