AUCKLAND, Today: “Here’s a tip,” says Phantom Billstickers’ Rupert Fenton, a perceptive chap, addressing the “art-of copy” problems faced by many brands.

AUCKLAND, Today: A distinguished selection of NZ agency and marketing people have signed on as presenters for next month’s Marketing Association’s Women In Marketing 2021 event.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: Special Group has launched Special PR, and appointed Kelly Grindle – formerly a Pead PR executive – to run it.

WELLINGTON, Today: Hot on the heels of their sport agency (EightyOneX), downtown creative shop EightyOne has launched a new media offshoot with Grant Maxwell headlining proceedings.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Marketing strategy consultancy One Picture Group has acquired Auckland-based social & marketing research agency Gravitas as part of its Australasian expansion plans.

AUCKLAND, Today: Following a pitch, conducted during lockdown, BSH Home Appliances has appointed BCG2 to look after their Bosch, Neff, Gaggenau and UnserHaus brands in New Zealand.

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Andrew Holt, the former MD of Clemenger BBDO Wellington and Sydney, has launched a marketing consultancy which aims to provide strategic advice to help businesses – on both sides of the Tasman – realise their brands’ full potential and unlock greater revenue growth”.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Omnicom Media Group New Zealand is maintaining its dominant position as NZ’s No 1 media & marketing services group, as reported by Paris-based research shop RECMA*.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: When I was growing up I never lived in a house. I lived in many hotels because my father was a hotel manager. This gave me a unique perspective on the chaos that is needed to create order and desirability.