Cannes Lions 2014: SA gets three Promo & Activation Lions bronzes
The International Festival of Creativity, Cannes Lions, has held the first of its four awards nights, announcing this year's winners in the Creative Effectiveness, Direct, Promo & Activation and PR categories. Two bronzes went to FCB South Africa (Johannesburg) for Coca-Cola and the third bronze to TBWA Hunt Lascaris for Tiger Brands.
See also:
• Cannes Lions 2014: First Grand Prix winners
• Cannes Lions 2014: Lions Health winners announced
Sanlam announces brand refresh, updates positioning
by Herman Manson. The listed South African financial services group will sport a refreshed logo and a new payoff line, as well as a new brand architecture and communication aimed at a younger audience, according to Yegs Ramiah, chief executive of Sanlam Brand.
WPP operating company JWT has acquired a majority stake in Durban-based The Hardy Boys, whose clients include Unilever, Diageo, SA Home Loans, ADvTECH and RCL Foods, among others.
2014 APEX Awards - all the winners
The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) hosted the 2014 APEX Awards on 10 June 2014 at the Sandton Convention Centre. Here are all the winners.
Africa Dispatches: Grow with Africa
The continent's higher growth rates are calling but many brands have ventured forth, only to discover that expanding in Africa is complex. Mandy de Waal speaks to the vanguards in this Mark Magazine: Africa Dispatches feature.
Regular reads:
• Ad of the Week with Oresti Patricios: The mother-trucking big burger
• Heroes & Zeros with Andy Rice: MTN & Nedbank - best & worst ads of the week
• Shelf Life with Louise Marsland: Peppadew's pickled-pepper pasta products
• MagLove with MediaSlut: Celebrating the beautiful game #WorldCup
• Design Annotator with Uno de Waal: Creative duos, pattern lab and perfume mastery
• #Top40TVratings with SAARF & MarkLives: "When we were black" back in top 10
On the radar:
• Account wins: Offlimit & GreenQueen wins
• Account wins: Jaguar Land Rover appoints Machine
• New Legal and Risk affilation consultancy launched for marketers
• Issy Zimmerman to head new Design Partnership division
• NAB and SAARF negotiating an extension of AMPS into 2015
• City Press: The SABC won't air our ads
• Coca-Cola sends SA football grannies to Brazil
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