AUCKLAND, Today: Dow Goodfolk (formerly Dow Design) is celebrating 25 years as a leading design agency in New Zealand, with a commemorative wine gift (packaged, of course, with a lot of attention to detail and a story to go with it).

AUCKLAND, Yesterday: Over 70 agency types donned “whites” for last week’s inaugural Big Mobile Pompallier Wine Mixer Mixed Doubles Tennis Championship in Ponsonby last week.

PARIS, Today: DDB New Zealand has been ranked 4th among most awarded agencies in 2018 in the Food & Beverages category of the 2nd AdForum Business Creative Report.

CHRISTCHURCH, Today: OMD now has a southern office after acquiring the largest media agency in the South Island. From today ImMediate in Christchurch will become part of the Omnicom family.

AUCKLAND, Yesterday: Telecoms provider Chorus has appointed FCB Media to handle all media requirements – including communication strategy, planning and buying, SEM, SEO, data consultancy, activations and other project-based work.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council, in conjunction with DDB lead business partner Nikki McKelvie and TBWA CCO Shane Bradnick, is introducing a new one-day account management interactive workshop.

AUCKLAND, Saturday: The Weekend Herald has paid a fine tribute to PHD luminary Louise Bond via an in-depth, full-page interview with business writer Damien Venuto (formerly of StopPress). Scroll down for the link to the article.

AUCKLAND, Saturday: Hell Pizza, not content to let a golden promotional opportunity pass, are celebrating the Brit tourist shock-horror incident with a new pizza – “just for the tourists from Hell”.