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Publicis Buying Microsoft’s Razorfish for $530 Million

Publicis Groupe, which owns Saatchi & Saatchi, will Microsoft’s Razorfish advertising agency for $530 million in cash and stock. Razorfish will operate under its own name, and it will keep the Redmond-based software giant as a client. Microsoft acquired digital ad firm Razorfish in 2007. Its clients include McDonald’s and Levi Strauss, and Microsoft rivals Google and [...]

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Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness Hires Russell as Director of Client Services

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has brought on Ned Russell as Executive Vice President, Director of Client Services, a new position. Russell joins from Las Vegas Sands Corporation, where he was Vice President of Brand Marketing, and oversaw marketing for the world’s largest five-diamond resort, with over $3 billion in annual sales and 9,000 employees. Previously, he [...]

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Saatchi New York Brings on Cheever

Saatchi & Saatchi New York has brought on Claudine Cheever as Director of Strategic Planning. She joins from McCann Erickson in San Francisco, where she was Executive Planning Director for 10 months. Before McCann, Cheever was deputy director of the planning department at Omnicom Group’s Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, where her clients included [...]

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