M&C Saatchi is nothing if not resilient: it may be under siege from deputy chairman Vin Murria and her tech investment vehicle, but it keeps picking up business. The agency’s M&C Sports & Entertainment has supplanted Iris on Barclays’ sports ...
Read More »Now NHS and M&C Saatchi go to war on heart attacks
The poor old UK has undergone a veritable barrage of ads from NHS England through Covid, necessary no doubt but hardly likely to create a feelgood factor. The NHS, possibly fortified by all that money it’s supposed to be getting ...
Read More »M&C plot thickens as Murria ups bid – while others may be circling agency in recovery
M&C Saatchi seems well and truly in play with investment vehicle AdvancedAdvT upping its all share offer by about 20% (rejected again by the board) and Sky News reporting that a 40p cash sweetener is also in the wings. M&C ...
Read More »M&C Saatchi fends off first Murria bid – might an old acquaintance ride to its rescue?
In agency land these days it’s now how good you are but what you are. M&C Saatchi, currently under siege from deputy chairman Vin Murria and her acquisition vehicle AdvancedAdvT (between them they control 22 per cent) is valued at ...
Read More »More intrigue at M&C Saatchi as deputy chair mulls bid
M&C Saatchi’s fortunes as a public company have certainly been diverting: it’s currently recovering from an accounting black hole and its four founders have all disappeared in the past year or so. Now it finds its deputy chairman seemingly trying ...
Read More »New CSO Sophie Lewis aims to “tackle big issues with creativity” at M&C Saatchi
Sophie Lewis, who has been behind many of the most high profile UK ad campaigns in recent times, has joined M&C Saatchi as chief strategy officer. She joins M&C from dentsuMB and will work with CEO Camilla Kemp and CCO ...
Read More »Will there be a profitable Act 111 for M&C’s Kershaw, Muirhead and Sinclair?
Another collection of big beast is stalking adland: David Kershaw , Bill Muirhead and Jeremy Sinclair, who helmed M&C Saatchi until an accounting scandal in 2019, have formed Act 111, a new investment company. Muirhead, 75, told the Sunday Times: ...
Read More »M&C delivers for government JobHelp scheme
There’s a more positive air about M&C Saatchi as Moray MacLennan’s new regime tries to put its accounting problems behind it. But the agency has still lost a lot of ground: in the UK it was once comfortably bigger than ...
Read More »M&C Saatchi delivers surprisingly perky ONS Census drive
March 21 is National Census Day in the UK – the first for ages – and it’s always handy to know how many of us there are and what we’re like. Demographics have been on many minds recently of course ...
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