Tom Dery is stepping down as worldwide chairman of M&C Saatchi Network after nine years. He will stay as chairman of M&C Saatchi Australia. Dery, a former client at Quantas and Ansett, founded the M&C business in Australia, Asia and ...
Read More »M&C unveils the algorithmic answer to everything
A while ago, to celebrate its 20th birthday I think, M&C founder (Lord) Maurice Saatchi announced that the agency had discovered the holy grail – or should that be Holy Grail? – of marketing. Well Maurice is never knowingly undersold. ...
Read More »Will the real Charles Saatchi please stand up?
Those of us who knew Charles Saatchi (or Charlie before he became important) in a previous life to a greater or lesser degree (lesser, in my case) must be completely mystified by the latest turn of events – Charlie on ...
Read More »Moray MacLennan: how M&C Saatchi International is building a new kind of marcoms empire
Moray MacLennan is CEO of M&C Saatchi Worldwide, the international arm of the UK agency formed in 1996 when Charles (no longer a partner) and Maurice Saatchi were defenestrated from Saatchi & Saatchi, then the biggest agency in the world, ...
Read More »Recession, what recession? The good times roll for M&C Saatchi’s top quartet
Original founder Charles Saatchi may be in the doghouse (he’s ‘accepted’ a police caution following a widely-publicised public row with wife Nigella Lawson) but younger brother Maurice, CEO David Kershaw (left), Bill Muirhead and Jeremy Sinclair are all doing very ...
Read More »Now Charles Saatchi faces trial by 24/7 media
It’s been quite a few days for adland and the media world’s finest: BBH’s Nigel Bogle gets a knighthood (good), Rupert Murdoch is divorcing Wendi Deng (depends on your point of view) with all sorts of colourful rumours flying about ...
Read More »Why former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was UK adland’s greatest patron
One doesn’t want to be parochial about these events – we’re reminded of issues of far more moment than the fortunes of adland by the death this morning of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher – but the one-time celebrated ...
Read More »Keep immigrants out – send for M&C Saatchi; new boss at Premier Foods, Ad Age picks 72andSunny
The UK government is apparently considering running an ad campaign to dissuade Bulgarians and Romanians from flooding into Britain when the rules change soon. Lots of references to warm beer, cold and wet weather and an economy run by George ...
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