WPP’s growing Possible Worldwide network of digital agencies has bought a majority stake in Germany’s Conrad Caine, based in Munich with offices in Argentina and Brazil. Founded in 1998, Conrad Caine employs 140 people in Munich with revenues of €8.5m. ...
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***M&C Saatchi is forming a new India HQ via a merger with Delhi agency February. Both companies will merge their operations to launch a new agency offering advertising, design, digital, social, mobile, events and activation. Founding clients will include GE, ...
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Shane Atchison is the new(ish) boss of Possible Worldwide, WPP’s attempt to create a new global digital agency from bits and bobs around the empire, and he has admitted to the Financial Times that Plan A (be bigger) didn’t work. ...
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WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell shows no sign of losing his appetite for digital acquisitions even after shelling out $540m for digital giant AKQA. The company has just completed a deal to buy a majority stake in the UK digital agency ...
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It seems that we’re supposed to call Burma Myanmar these days – a nifty bit of rebranding for a country that was an international pariah a year or so ago. Anyway, where democracy (or some of it) leads WPP follows ...
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WPP’s ever-acquisitive acquisitions team have been busy bees again, snapping up newish SEattle-based advocacy firm Crowdverb and Hungarian digital marketing agency Carnation Internet Tanacsado. Crowdverb will become a part of PR giant Burson-Marsteller’s Direct Impact advocacy operation while Carnation will ...
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On the face of it it seems sensible enough to pull four WPP-owned digital agencies – New York’s Schematic, Bridge Worldwide in Cincinnati, Blue Interactive in Singapore and Quasar in New Delhi – together to form global network Possible Worldwide. ...
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Omnicom, owner of BBDO, DDB and TBWA, has confirmed the recovery in advertising industry fortunes with fourth quarter 2010 like for like revenue growth of ten per cent bringing total revenue in 2010 to $12.5bn (up 6.5 per cent) and ...
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Publicis Groupe has stolen a big march on the rest of the market with its digital agencies Razorfish and Digitas, dominating the US agency scene in particular. Now WPP is trying to fight back with the formation of a new ...
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