The UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has appointed MSQ Partners to handle its marketing activity following a pitch among government roster agencies. MSQ’s task involves publicising MHCLG initiatives in the fields of affordable housing and regional ...
Read More »Top UK media exec Simon Davis joins MSQ to set up new agency Walk-In Media
Lively marcoms group MSQ Partners is launching a new media agency – Walk-In Media – headed by in-demand media exec Simon Davis. Davis resigned as CEO of Blue449 (Walker Media as was) after nine years as owner Publicis Groupe tried ...
Read More »Peter Reid of MSQ: people, process but maybe not Publicis are crucial to holding group success
‘What’s going wrong at Publicis Groupe?’ is not a headline Arthur Sadoun and co would have enjoyed seeing splashed across the front page of this very site earlier in the week. But this wasn’t the only publication asking questions about ...
Read More »MSQ Partners wins Mayor of London’s new green energy company
The Greater London Authority (GLA) has appointed MSQ Partners as the lead communications agency for London Power, the capital’s new, fair-priced, green energy company created in partnership between the Mayor of London and Octopus Energy. MSQ Partners was appointed after ...
Read More »The Gate poaches new creative chief Lucas Peon from WPP’s Wunderman Thomson
Full service agency The Gate London has lured Wunderman Thomson executive creative director Lucas Peon to be its new ECD. Peon was ECD at JWT before WPP merged it with Wunderman. Peon replaces Beri Cheetham who is moving to a ...
Read More »MSQ’s Stack turns traffic policeman for busy London street
Do agencies really help the public good? When London’s Camden Council in its wisdom decided to make busy thoroughfare Tottenham Court Road two-way there were a number of accidents, some serious, as people had been used to it being one-way ...
Read More »MSQ Partners valued at £37.5m after new LDC investment
Mid-sized marketing group MSQ Partners has secured a new investor, private equity firm LDC in a deal that values the business at £37.5m. MSQ’s agencies include Holmes & Marchant (branding & design), Smarts Communicate (PR and content), Stack (customer activation ...
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