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Top company and news stories 18 December 2017 Brett Morris, FCB Africa Group CEO and group CCO, shares 'six of the best' from the agency's 57-year strong brand relationship with Toyota.
I sit down with new #DesignIndaba2018 editor-in-chief Neo Maditla to discover her plans to make the Design Indaba website as popular as its annual festival.
I find out about M&N Brands' plans for a pan-African future from group CEO Zibusiso Mkhwanazi, while Jessica Tennant unpacks #Newsmaker Grant Sithole's new role as joint ECD at Avatar.
Tennant also chats to Havas #Newsmakers Mandy Leontakianakis, new chief strategy officer; as well as current CCO Eoin Welsh, leaving the agency group at the end of 2017 to pursue passion projects, and Fiona O'Connor and Tumi Sethebe, promoted as joint executive creative directors, effective 2 January 2018.
Tennant also unpacks TMI Media's #StartupStory with MD Quinton Jones.That's a wrap on our last newsletter of the year! Find out about our most-popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views in our annual #BestofBiz 2017: Marketing & Media. Content will still be uploaded to the site daily, with newsletters returning on Monday, 8 January 2018. Here's to a relaxing festive season, from all of us to all of you and your loved ones. Leigh Andrews
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Leigh Andrews Toyota formally announced earlier today that it is continuing its "exceptionally good, regularly measured" relationship with "the best of the best", FCB Africa. Brett Morris, FCB Africa Group CEO and group CCO shares their perspective of the love story that's endured over five decades and counting...read | 
Charl Bassil Despite a sobering picture of South Africa's competitiveness, showing performance in the 2017-2018 World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index to have slipped 14 positions from the 2016-2017 results, there are some bright spots - notably on the innovation front...read | 
Leigh Andrews To many 'Design Indaba' is simply founder Ravi Naidoo, but there's a huge team behind the scenes. Meet Neo Maditla, Design Indaba's new editor-in-chief. With her hard-news background and passion for purpose-led design, she's the tough cookie looking to make the Design Indaba website as popular as its annual Festival...read |
| | |  | Jessica Tennant Havas recently appointed Mandy Leontakianakis as chief strategy officer to lead from Havas Johannesburg and across the group in Southern Africa, including Havas Boondoggle in Cape Town... read | |  | Jessica Tennant Havas Johannesburg has announced chief creative officer Eoin Welsh's resignation, and the promotion of Fiona O'Connor and Tumi Sethebe as joint executive creative directors, effective 2 January 2018... read | |  | Issued By FCB Africa Toyota South Africa and FCB Africa have 'renewed their vows' meaning that one of the longest-standing relationships in the local advertising and marketing industry will continue uninterrupted... read | |  | Issued By M&C Saatchi Abel When Bakers approached M&C Saatchi Abel to create a campaign to promote the Bakers Choice Assorted range, it opted for a uniquely authentic approach... read | | |  | Issued By XZIBIT Experiential Marketing XZIBIT presented IDEMIA at this year's AfricaCom - the largest event in Africa to showcase telecoms, technology and media... read | | |  | Candice Goodman Issued By Mobitainment When social meets mobile, we see the best of both in our digital world...
Let's explore their journey as their relationship gets even closer as 2018 approaches, and how we can leverage what they offer us as marketers in Africa... read | | |  | Issued By Dentsu Aegis Network John Brown Media South Africa has won the gold award for Best Print Magazine Editorial (B2B) at The Content Council's international Pearl Awards ceremony in New York with MiNDSPACE... read | |  | The media has been so captured by the celebrity culture that an endorsement by a famous person or respected source lends credence to a product or cause which has no scientific backing... read | |  | Issued By SAFREA For the second year in a row, the number of journalists imprisoned for their work has reached a record high, marking a new low for press freedom... read | | |  | Issued By Oasis Digital Networks The Media Shop Johannesburg's client, the Automobile Association of SA, has taken up a slot on the forecourts for December nationally... read | | |  | Issued By icandi CQ icandi CQ has appointed Thembi Kunene-Msimang as chairperson, forging a new era for this leading local communication specialist, as they venture into Africa and the growing tourism sector... read | | |  | Jessica Tennant Bryce 'DJ Ankletap' Clarke has moved back to the YFM breakfast show from his 6-9pm slot... read | | |  | A research study showed that although our dreams of a rainbow utopia have faded to a more realistic pallor, South Africans are a resilient nation who remain proudly South African (84%) with an infallible sense of optimism for a bright future for all races... read | |  | Issued By Kantar TNS Kyle Findlay from Kantar SA won best paper at the global ESOMAR Big Data World Conference in New York with The agony and ecstasy of teaching an old dog new tricks: from research agency to tech company... read | | |  | Jainita Khatri Retailers and consumers, door deals and online marketing, geo-tracking, real-time parking deals and refreshments for physical shoppers. Black Friday has evolved into a complex sales phenomenon... read | | |  | Facebook on Thursday moved to bolster its appeal and money-making potential as an online platform for viewing video similar to YouTube. read | | |  | Streaming media is changing the face of broadcasting: people are turning to streaming video platforms, and increasingly, consuming their media and entertainment via their mobile phones... read | | |  | Calling it the "Netflix of jazz," legendary producer Quincy Jones is rolling out Qwest TV, a first global platform dedicated to on-demand jazz videos... read | | |  | Juanita Pienaar The Prism Awards are once again searching for 11 of the best young minds seeking the title of Prisms Young Judge for the 2018 awards... read | | | | Leonardo da Vinci "Learning never exhausts the mind." |
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