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In the annual Effie awards for the most effective marketer in North America , Wieden + Kennedy is "still motoring" , coming in ahead of nine other finalists to win the Grand Effie in New York for its "Imported from Detroit" campaign for Chrysler.

A New York District Court judge has dismissed moved by WPP to get a suit against them dismissed.

A worldwide ad agency, WPP, has become the first western advertising group to invest in Burma since sanctions were eased, in hopes of attracting the first wave of foreign investors in Burma.

No1 Brand Apple Grows 19% to $182.9 Billion While IBM Eases Past Google to Take No.2 Spot First African brand enters ranking NEW YORK, May 21, 2012 /CNW/ - The world's biggest brands have continued to grow in value during the current economic uncertainty, according to WPP company Millward Brown's annual BrandZ[TM]Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ... (more)

With Facebook's IPO in the books, industry players are weighing in on what the events of last week meant.

WPP has become the first foreign advertising group to invest in Myanmar since Western sanctions were lifted, betting on a flood of demand from multinational companies wanting to market their goods and services.

General Motors Inc's decision to stop advertising on Facebook may be a wake-up call for the No.

Today, 24/7 Media, Inc., WPP's marketing technology company, and Moat Inc., a brand intelligence and analytics company, announced a partnership to offer advertisers and publishers brand-focused metrics to help them measure the success of an ad campaign well beyond the industry default measure for success, the click-through. With this new ... (more)

As the American political classes become more polarized, with faction pitted against faction, there is a consolidating force at work in the $6 billion-a-year influence-peddling industry.

The hearing is set for 1 p.m. on June 9 at the Newbold Town Hall and comes after several meetings earlier this year where town officials discussed the matter.

The company is principally engaged in manufacturing, converting and sale of paper and paper products.

Neenah Paper 1Q 2012 results: sales grew 15% on purchased brands from Wausau Paper; net income rises to $8.9M ALPHARETTA, GA , May 9, 2012 - Neenah Paper, Inc.

Jeffrey Rosen, WPP's remuneration chairman, is expected to argue that Sir Martin Sorrell - who took home A 13m in 2011 - has not had a salary rise since 2007 and needs to be paid fairly Jeffrey Rosen, chairman of the remuneration committee at WPP , is to embark on a series of meetings with investors in an attempt to head off a row over a 30% pay ... (more)

The Argentine government has ignored WPP's request to stop broadcasting a controversial ad created by Y&R's Buenos Aires office that has stirred up a diplomatic row over the Falklands.

Now retired in Sarasota, the 80-year-old business executive led five paper manufacturers from the red to the black, growing the largest of them from $68 million in annual revenues in the late 1970s to a $1 billion company with 3,000 employees in seven states at the time of his retirement.

At noon sharp on May 1, all 800 employees of DraftFCB's Chicago flagship office filed into a meeting that many of them would never forget.

Solid State Logic has announced that Mark Davidson has joined the company in the newly created role of global systems and solutions business development manager.

Worldwide Power Products , a power-generation equipment provider to industrial clients worldwide, today announced that Nicklos Drilling selected Worldwide Power Products for emergency replacement of a drilling rig generator.

Bank of America, seeking ways to resolve persistent image problems with customers, said on Thursday that it was making a major change to its lineup of advertising agencies.