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 ...
Read More »HSBC pits Omnicom against WPP in $600m pitch
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 ...
Read More »Do new Omnicom figures show that the big marcoms companies boomlet is running out of boom?
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 ...
Read More »Is new GroupM ex-Omnicom hire Johan Boserup now the biggest hitter in global media buying?
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 ...
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