Chairman and CEO of Alfa, Marwan Hayek has been granted Operator Telecom Leader of the Year award by Telecom Review (TR), in recognition of his achievements in the telecommunications sector and the development that he has brought to the sector in Lebanon through the strategy he adopted since taking office...
For the eighth time in nine years Carat is the world's best agency network.Carat has once again been named as the number one Global Media Agency Network in the latest Network Diagnostics Qualitative Evaluation report, released in December 2016. This is the eighth time in the last nine reports in...
Carlos Harding, Ipsos Deputy CEO, LT Participations Board Member and Ipsos Partners Shareholders, has passed away on Friday 9 December 2016 in Paris.An Engineering graduate of the University of Santiago in Chile (1971), Harding joined Ipsos in 1991, as international manager, in charge of developing and strengthening the company’s international...
Media agency PHD has made a series of changes in its managerial line-up as it expands into new services and territories.Hassan Shoker, previously head of investments for PHD UAE, will take on a regional role at PHD MENA, actively participating in the expansion of the network into Egypt, Lebanon and...
DDB Dubai has won the advertising account for Turkish dairy brand Pinar following a multi-agency pitch. Following the win, Arda Cenk Tokbas, general manager of HDF FZCO, the group’s regional office, said the company’s marketing strategy with DDB would be to highlight the uniqueness of Pinar’s products.Hubert Boulos, CEO for the...
The Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity has announced that Coca-Cola Middle East will be honoured as the 2017 Advertiser of the Year.The Award is presented to advertisers in the MENA region who have set themselves apart through their innovation and bravery in creative communications and embrace the vision and...
iProspect, the Dentsu Aegis Network digital performance agency, has launched a new operation in Saudi Arabia. The new agency will be headquartered in Jeddah with team members based in Dentsu Aegis’ second Saudi office in Riyadh, and supported by the iProspect Hub office in Dubai. iProspect will introduce a complete...
Argentinian director and cinematographer Dario Sabina has relocated to Dubai to work with film and content production company Baroque Film. The director, who merges storytelling, beauty and comedy within his body of work, will be working alongside Lorenzo Bassano, the head of Baroque Film, and Ali Mansoor, the co-founder and chief...
Following 12 years of collaboration, LMG Société de Presse, has ceased its deal with media company Specom. LMG, which publishes social and style magazine Mondanité, will, from now on, run its media operations in-house with Lara Pharaon Labaky as Sales Manager for Mondanité, print and digital platforms, effective January 2017.
Scandinavian dairy company Arla Foods is reviewing its media planning and buying account across the Middle East and North Africa. The pitch involves incumbent agency PHD, as well as Mindshare, UM and Carat. A final decision on who will be awarded the business is expected to be made before the end of...
Panadol has rolled out a campaign that turns eight hours of joint pain relief into a mini eight-hour vacation. The campaign for Panadol Joint was created by Grey Dubai and offered a handful of joint pain sufferers over the age of 45 the opportunity to go skydiving, rock climbing, kayaking and...
Komal Bedi Sohal is to return to Dubai as chief creative officer of Saatchi & Saatchi. Bedi Sohal, who is a former executive creative director at Y&R Dubai and Lowe MENA, is to officially take on her new role in January. She had previously been chief creative officer at Y&R Singapore,...
Independent Afghan TV news station TOLO has won the 2016 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb prize for its consistently fearless work reporting in one of the world's most dangerous countries.The prize, with a 3,000 euro purse, honours journalists working in perilous or difficult conditions in Asia, and is named after a...
Huawei Arabia has launched an innovative interactive Facebook post to engage with their audience for the launch of the NOVA Plus smartphone. Memac Ogilvy who spearheads digital strategy for Huawei partnered with Newsfeed SmartApps patent pending technology to launch this creative engagement. Shyaire Ganglani, Account Manager, Memac Ogilvy & Mather, added,...
Women are traditionally underrepresented in the hospitality industry, especially in finance and technical positions and at leadership levels. Yet, HR specialists claim that there is no prejudice against hiring women for leadership roles. So why are most Financial and IT leadership roles occupied by men?Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals (HFTP)...
