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Talon, the UK’s biggest independent Out of Home agency, has bought the OOH business of Grandesign, the US’ second-largest independent in the sector. Grandesign’s traditional offices in San Diego, Denver, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Atlanta will take the Talon ...

Independent out of home specialist agency Talon is expanding in the US with the opening of a New York office. Talon handles out of home media for several of the UK’s leading advertising brands through Omnicom Media Group UK agencies ...

Out of home industry heavyweights Kevin Shute and Richard Blackburn are launching a new OOH communications agency – Partisan Communications. The new agency is partnering with Eric Newnham’s Talon Outdoor, the leading independent agency that handles Omnicom’s OOH spend in ...

***Before we embark on more musings about the collapsed Omnicom/Publicis deal, one of my spies tells me about a thwarted coup by Eric Newnham’s Talon to lure big UK outdoor advertiser Warner Brothers away from WPP-owned Kinetic. Talon is in ...

Talon Outdoor CEO Eric Newnham (left) has indeed been named Serial Entrepreneur of the Year at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards. Newnham, who set up OOH specialist Talon after quitting WPP’s Kinetic, was honoured for his continuous efforts to devise ...

It’s always nice to see people you know doing their bit for the country and my friend Eric Newnham (left), boss of go-go OOH agency Talon, is one such, which has now been recognised by the Great British Entrepreneur Awards ...

In little over a year Eric Newnham’s new out of home specialist agency Talon has wrought devastation on the large and profitable UK OOH planning and buying market, grabbing huge chunks of business from its more established rivals (chiefly Aegis-owned ...

The great Publicom merger posts a number of interesting questions for Sir Martin Sorrell and WPP. The first is: WPP’s strategy has always been to be the biggest and now it no longer is – across the piece. So fund ...

Omnicom maybe does, at the moment it has two – OMD and PHD – under its OMG holding operation (OMD/OMG is hardly a branding triumph either). Actually it has two and a half because OMG is a big shareholder in ...