Digital disruption is marmalising the high street in the UK and a big player in today’s embattled high street is estate agency, the national chains that have dominated Britain’s overpriced residential property market for decades. One such is Foxtons, known ...
Read More »M&C warns on pension scammers – too little too late?
George Osborne’s reign as chancellor under David Cameron might be seen as an example of the laws of unintended consequences. His decision to allow people to draw down a significant lump of their painstakingly acquired pensions in 2015, far from ...
Read More »M&C buys two influencer outfits and launches M&C Talent
Some big advertisers including Unilever and L’Oreal may be worried about the veracity of so-called “influencers,” often YouTube performers plugging brands, but that doesn’t seem to have derailed the influencer business. Now M&C Saatchi has bought two related influencer outfits ...
Read More »M&C Saatchi outpaces bigger holding company rivals with diversified model
M&C Saatchi, the quoted agency that now has a network of over 20 outposts worldwide, outshone its bigger holding company rivals by reporting revenue up seven per cent to £241m in 2017 and top line profits of £27.7m. M&C is ...
Read More »“World’s largest agency” M&C Saatchi opens in Indonesia
You learn something every day. From the Jakarta Globe we discover that M&C Saatchi is “the world’s largest and fastest-growing (agency) network.” Hmm. M&C global boss Moray MacLennan (third from the right wearing a nice new shirt, as are his ...
Read More »M&C Saatchi lures CSO Chicourel from Saatchi & Saatchi as new strategy boss
New-style M&C Saatchi has completed its management line-up with the appointment of Raquel Chicourel, head of planning at Saatchi & Saatchi London, as its new CSO. New CEO Giles Hedger, from Leo Burnett, has already appointed Kate Bosomworth as its ...
Read More »M&C’s MacLennan tries to end Tindall diversity controversy
M&C Saatchi international boss Moray MacLennan has announced that CCO Justin Tindall (left), who famously announced that he was “bored of diversity” in a Campaign article, won’t be fired. Because he didn’t say he was “bored with diversity.” Which is ...
Read More »Below-the-line suits the top line at M&C Saatchi
Smaller is beautiful seems a strange mantra for M&C Saatchi but that seems to be the message in its half year 2017 results. The bad news is a ten per cent fall in pre-tax profits due to sharply higher costs, ...
Read More »Aussie legend Dery steps down as M&C worldwide chairman
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 ...
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