31 Mar 2000
Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore won the Best of the Best award at the
14th Asian Advertising Awards in Hong Kong, for a TVC titled "Bruce
Lee".
The commercial was created for client Procter & Gamble's Head &
Shoulders shampoo brand.
The Saatchis network also took home a total of 26 Spikes...
31 Mar 2000
Ogilvy 1.148 billion, up
about three per cent from the year before.
DDB jumped one place to second spot with a 12 per cent increase in
billings to HK 1.047 billion.
J. Walter Thompson, which held the second spot in 1998, slipped one
place as its billings eased 2.4 per cent to HK...
31 Mar 2000
Bates Hong Kong has snatched the multi-million dollar Coca-Cola
summer promotion campaign from D'Arcy in a pitch that was called after
Coke said the incumbent agency did not impress.
Coke Hong Kong and Macau country manager Scott Price said: "We chose
Bates based upon a very good creative...
31 Mar 2000
| by ALFRED HILLE and SUZANNE MIAO
Hong Kong 4As billings in China rose a marginal 2.8 per cent to
HK 5.923 billion last year, compared with 1998.
Saatchi 1.060 billion, up 2.1 per cent from
1998.
The agency network held on to its No.1 spot at the top of the charts as
a result.
Ogilvy 848 million were virtually...
31 Mar 2000
1) CTI IDD (Superman): client, CTI; agency, Grey.
2) SUNDAY (Mobile Phone Network): client, Sunday Telecoms; agency, BBDO.
3) McDONALD'S (Big Mac Chant agency,
DDB.
4) SO WAP (Tennis): client, Sunday; agency, BBDO.
5) YAKULT: client, Yakult: agency: Dentsu, Young agency, JWT.
7) HKBN...
31 Mar 2000
Ogilvy Sariwangi, the number one teabag brand in the
country, and Molto, which is the market-leading fabric conditioner.
The wins are significant additions to the existing Pond's and Hazeline
Unilever business.
The Sariwangi account was won from JWT, after a re-alignment and will...
31 Mar 2000
Euro RSCG Great Ocean Partnership Beijing has snatched the Kang Shi
Fu rice cracker creative business from incumbent McCann-Erickson
Guangming.
It follows Euro winning the Kang Shi Fu media agency of record business
last year. Euro picked up the creative business based on its strategic...
31 Mar 2000
Asia-Pacific's adspend should continue to grow at a double-digit
rate this year, following the 12 per cent year-on-year growth for 1999,
according to Mr Frank Martell, ACNielsen's chief operating officer for
Asia and Japan.
"The Internet and telecoms sectors will help fuel growth and barring...
31 Mar 2000
Singleton Ogilvy & Mather has signed an agreement to take up a
shareholding in Fame Advertising Pty.
Under the deal, Singleton will initially take a 20 per cent shareholding
and this will increase to 33 per cent by July. Singleton's second brand
advertising agency, Genesis, will be folded...
31 Mar 2000
Dentsu has signed an agreement to acquire a 20 per cent share of
BCom3, previously known as BDM, which was formed by the merger of The
Leo and MacManus Groups in January this year.
BCom3's affiliate agencies include: Dentsu, Leo Burnett, D'Arcy, NW
Ayer, Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty, Starcom...