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Dundas, 43, was managing director of Charlotte Street--that's Saatchi & Saatchi-speak for the advertising firm's London headquarters--when the office won the prestigious Cannes Agency of the Year award in 2002. In 2003 came Advertising Age's and Adweek's Network of the Year awards for obtaining new business--and Dundas was named Charlotte Street's CEO. Now Dundas is stepping up again, taking on a new role as Saatchi's worldwide strategy director. "We have globally a fantastic creative product and strategic view," says Dundas. "My job is to pull the two together." He will...
...KEVIN ROBERTS, CEO of ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi, predicting greater resistance to U.S. brands in Europe after George W. Bush's re-election
When hundreds of modern art works belonging to Charles Saatchi and others were destroyed last week in a London warehouse fire, the tabloids were quick to call it the end of Britart - and most tried to dance on its grave. Not that the tabs don't know their art, but many experts believe the movement is equally likely to rise phoenix-like from the ashes - with higher price tags attached. Established (and no longer so young) Young British Artists could see post-blaze scarcity and notoriety increase demand for their surviving works. Possible winners (and losers): Patrick Heron The late...
...when art comes first." But the place also introduced him to a circle of friends who would go on to become the loosely affiliated group that the British call the YBAs--Young British Artists. Cultural bomb throwers, most of them collected and promoted by the wealthy ad executive Charles Saatchi, they tumbled loudly into America four years ago in the "Sensation" show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City...
...political enemies. Adjusting his spotless white cuffs, he says: "What happened to freedom, the European Union? What happened to democracy, Mr. Erdogan?" For the Uzans, enemies have always come with the territory. The family faces scores of civil and criminal lawsuits at home, ranging from extortion to fraud. Siemens, Saatchi & Saatchi and Mark Mobius, the mutual-fund manager, have all alleged they were scammed by the Uzans. The Motorola and Nokia cases, however, are exceptional. It is the first major suit brought against the family outside Turkey. And the figures involved are staggering. Under U.S. racketeering law Motorola is seeking...