LONDON – Iris Worldwide, the integrated marketing agency, has appointed Mark Reardon as chief client officer and Adam Murray as chief financial officer to strengthen its senior management team.
SINGAPORE – Music and entertainment site Crunchyroll has appointed Aktiv Digital as its regional online sales house following a 3-way pitch involving Pixel Media and iHub.
LONDON – Mars will announced today a five-year project to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome, according to a report in the New York Times. The aim it to not only protect cocoa plants from tropical diseases, pests and climate change, but to possibly enhance the flavour of chocolate.
JAKARTA – Bank Mandiri, one of Indonesia’s largest banks, is on the lookout for an agency to handle its media and creative, estimated to be worth US $15 million.
TOKYO – Edelman has appointed Thomas R Zengage as executive chairman of its Japan operation, following the departure of North Asia president and representative director Robert Pickard earlier this month.
PARIS – Publicis Groupe has unveiled a new strategic initiative designed to maximise ROI from new media and digital marketing, VivaKi, which is also hoping to stimulate growth for the network in digital markets.
LONDON – First Choice Holidays, the TUI-owned travel operator, is on the hunt for a lead direct marketing agency and has approached a number of undisclosed shops with a request for information.
LONDON – Marcus Starke, the president and chief executive of Wunderman EMEA, and Alexei Orlov, the global executive vice-chairman, are leaving the network without jobs to go to.
LONDON – Beattie McGuinness Bungay has scooped the £5 million Freeview account after a three-way pitch.
LONDON – Rolls-Royce is on the hunt for a UK advertising agency.
LONDON – Flybe, the short-haul airline, has asked agencies to pitch ?for its £7 million advertising account.
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