Baxters has hired Hometown to develop a marketing strategy and creative work to reinvigorate its Fray Bentos brand. Hometown, which has won the advertising account without a pitch, will work with the iconic British meat pie brand to reposition it in the market. The agency’s first work for Fray Bentos will be a major sponsorship […]
GroupM APAC has signed a deal with Japanese messaging app Line to give its clients better access to new commercial products and training. Brand accounts are closely monitored on Line to ensure no fake accounts exist, according to the messaging app. The partnership will mean GroupM clients can use official accounts to speak to customers, […]
Y&R Global Chief Creative Officer Tony Granger and Andrew Dimitriou, Y&R’s CEO of Europe, announced the appointment of Jaime Mandelbaum as Chief Creative Officer of Europe. The São Paulo-born creative who has served as Chief Creative Officer of Y&R Central & Eastern Europe since 2013, will now oversee the global ad agency’s creative efforts across […]
Mindshare South Africa, the global media agency network that is part of WPP, has appointed Thabang Ramogase as its CEO. Thabang has over twenty years’ experience working in the marketing industry. He started his career at Merill Lynch, moving to companies such as the SABC, Coca-Cola, and MTN. In 2003 he founded and was the […]
Following the announcement of a more unified structure and services in December, Publicis Communications, a part of Publicis Groupe’s “Power of One” model is now up and running. Under Publicis Communications are the global creative networks – Publicis Worldwide, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, and BBH, production company Prodigious, and specialized communications network, MSLGROUP. This […]
BMB has boosted its senior team and strategy offering by promoting Tamsin Northridge to the role of head of planning. Northridge, who was previously planning director at BMB, will lead strategy and planning across all BMB clients, including Yorkshire Tea, Dairylea and Homebase. Northridge takes over the day-to-day running of the planning department from planning […]
Micromax Informatics Ltd. announced the appointment of Creativeland Asia (CLA) as its creative agency on record. As a part of this partnership, CLA will handle the entire integrated design and communication mandate for Micromax globally. The decision to partner together was taken after an intense multi-agency pitch process, held last month. Creativeland Asia is one of […]
Cheil London has appointed Caitlin Ryan as the agency’s new Executive Creative Director. Ryan, the former Group Executive Creative Director at Karmarama, will oversee Cheil London’s creative output across all clients. She will report to Paul Hammersley, the Group Chief Executive. Ryan first joined Karmarama in 2013 as Group ECD. Prior to that she was […]
MEC has hired Matt Davies as its managing director of Content, Sarah Hennessy, the agency’s managing director announced on January 14. Matt’s appointment reflects the scale of the opportunity that digital content creation and deployment creates for brands across categories. He will be responsible for leading the evolution of MEC’s content offering, to ensure it […]
Five of the management team at M&C Saatchi have announced they are buying a 30% equity stake of the UK ad agency for an undisclosed sum, following agreement with the M&C Saatchi Worldwide board and the plc board. The five directors are: Chairman Tim Duffy, CEO Tom Bazeley, Chief Creative Officer Justin Tindall, Chief Strategy […]