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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 Editor-in-Chief: Marketing & Media SA PS: You too can own space on the biggest multi-industry B2B news site in Africa...
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    #DesignIndaba2018: Telling stories about purpose-led design

    LEIGH ANDREWS

    To many 'Design Indaba' is simply founder Ravi Naidoo, but there's a huge team behind the scenes. Meet editor-in-chief Neo Maditla, looking to make the Design Indaba website as popular year-round as the annual Festival... read
    Toyota loves FCB Africa: The 57 year-strong brand relationship

    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
    As home of inventions such as Kreepy Krauly and the Cat scan, SA continues to compete on innovation

    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
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    #Newsmaker: Havas bids farewell to Welsh, promotes O'Connor and Sethebe to joint ECDs

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    #Newsmaker: Mandy Leontakianakis guides Havas into 2018

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    Safrea denounces jailing of journalists

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    John Brown South Africa scoops double gold at international Pearl Awards

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    WIN Summit to start 2018 World News Media Congress
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    JAINITA KHATRI

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    MMA, SOS support SABC strike
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