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Apple Inc. said Angela Ahrendts, the head of retail operations, is leaving the company in April after serving in the role since 2014.

The iPhone maker said Ahrendts is taking on new “personal and professional pursuits.” Deirdre O’Brien, human resources chief, will also run the retail unit going forward. Ahrendts, 58, joined Apple after serving as the chief executive officer of fashion giant Burberry Group Plc for almost eight years.

At Apple, she overhauled the company’s retail operations, redesigning stores into meeting places with more open floor plans and a focus on pushing customer service “geniuses” out from behind formal counters.

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Orangetheory and Mirror are two of the buzziest brands working to shake up the roughly $32 billion U.S. fitness industry, per Statista. Ahead of our inaugural Brandweek: Challenger Brands summit in New York, we asked Eric Mandell, vp of marketing for Mirror (a futuristic, interactive workout experience using, you guessed it, a mirror that you…

Ad Age is now accepting nominations for Women to Watch Europe, a program that honors women who have made significant contributions to the worlds of media, advertising and marketing. Now in its fourth year, honorees will join a prestigious and fast-growing global community of Women to Watch in the U.S., Mexico and more.

“It’s important, now more than ever, to recognize and upfift women who are propelling our industry and who are shining examples for others,” says Ad Age Executive Editor Judann Pollack. “These are the women who are leading the way for others to succeed.”

Those chosen will become part of the Women to Watch Europe community, a powerhouse group now more than 60 strong. Honorees are judged on their accomplishments in 2018. They will be celebrated at a London event this spring.

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Kenyon Victor Adams, a 40-year-old artist and curator, hopes to bring Armstrong’s archive “into the 21st century.”

Walt Disney Co. reported first-quarter sales and profit that beat analysts’ recently lowered estimates as gains in the company’s broadcast division countered slumping cable results.

Profit in the quarter came to $1.84 a share, Disney said Tuesday, beating the $1.54 a share analysts were predicting. Sales, little changed at $15.3 billion, also exceeded estimates.

ESPN+, its direct-to-consumer service, now has more than 2 million paid subscribers, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger said during a conference call with Wall Street analysts. This is more than double where it was five months ago.

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Terminou no último domingo mais um Festival de Sundance, mostra de cinema independente que acontece anualmente na cidade de Park City, nos Estados Unidos, e que marca o início do circuito de grandes festivais. O festival é também o principal lar para a atual produção estadunidense independente, tendo servido nos últimos anos de ponto de …

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Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday.

A few highlights: Toyota shows off some of the features of the new RAV4, including Alexa integration. Sling serves up a fresh 15-second TV cut of a campaign starring relationship expert Dr. Ruth that debuted onliine last August. And for some reason a man does some hibachi grilling (and is insanely good at it) in Geico’s latest.

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Rarely does a week go by that an advertising holding company doesn’t announce they’re buying a stake in an independent agency. Now, the pendulum might be swinging the other way around.

In just the last few weeks, a number of shopsincluding Johannes Leonardo, O’Keefe Reinhard & Paul and Richard Attias & Associateshave made that move. WPP-backed shop Johannes Leonardo quietly reduced the world’s largest holding company’s stake in the agency from 49 percent to 25 percent at the end of last year, according to people familiar with the matter. Last week, WPP said it agreed to sell its 49 percent stake in global communication advisory firm Richard Attias & Associates. And similarly without fanfare, Chicago-based OKRP late last year regained its independence from Interpublic Group of Cos., which had held a minority stake in the shop.

At a time when holding companies are struggling to meet the financial demands of shareholders, indies seem to be having a moment. Wieden & Kennedy has been sweeping award shows and topped Ad Age’s Agency A-List last year. Speculation has raged that 72andSunny and Anomaly, both owned by MDC Partners, which is in financial disarray and under fire from a dissident shareholder, might consider buying themselves back. (72andSunny didn’t respond to a request for comment Tuesday, while Anomaly founding partner Jason DeLand said the agency is not considering that route: “We’ve never felt the need to be interventionalist, because we see MDC as a partner, not an ownerthat’s just the way it’s been. There’s no truth whatsoever that we were considering buying ourselves back … we have not entertained that. We don’t see the need.”)

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