Tag Archives: omnicom

Here’s an interesting one: Ad Age reports that WPP has ‘edged out’ Omnicom in what seems to have been a two-horse race for Chinese telecoms giant Huawei (‘Hway-hay’ is what you say apparently). Huawei is a global business-to-business supplier (worth ...

WPP is planning to merge its Grey and Ogilvy agencies in Sweden: which may be a solution to a local problem or a sign of things to come at the world’s biggest marcoms network. WPP says the merger of the ...

I’ve no idea how much has been spent on what we used to call corporate public relations over the last decade but it must run into many billions of whatever currency you choose. Since PR firms had the bright wheeze ...

Havas increased its revenues by 11 per cent in the third quarter of this year to $546m but organic growth was down to the same disappointing levels of about two per cent reported by rivals WPP and Publicis Groupe; more ...

It’s quite tough in the Champion’s League of consumer goods companies at the moment as the likes of Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Reckitt Benckiser struggle with higher input prices and price-conscious consumers, particular in stagnating Western Europe. Anglo-Dutch ...

It’s two from WPP versus one from Omnicom in the shoot-out for HSBC’s $600m global account (according to Campaign) with incumbent JWT and Grey up against BBDO spearheaded by the UK’s AMV/BBDO. Despite the numerical disadvantage you’d have to make ...

The big marcoms companies have rather enjoyed the sagging global economy over the past couple of years, managing to increase revenue and earnings by rather more than most other sectors, apart from freaky performances like Apple’s (Apple is almost a ...

He might be, Boserup (left) is joining GroupM (which oversees WPP’s four big media agencies) as global CEO GroupM Trading tasked with aligning trading activities in each of the agencies. Not just that, but he joins after 17 years at ...

Interpublic CEO Michael Roth might have turned the company around in financial terms but his big agency brands (headed by McCann, DraftFCB and Lowe) are struggling big time. Now Johnson & Johnson, which spends about $2.7bn globally including $2bn in ...