Ogilvy Chicago Wins Sargento Cheese

Succeeds Grey on the business

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The Chicago office of Ogilvy & Mather has won Sargento's creative account after a review that was managed by Select Resources International.

Ogilvy takes on lead creative and digital duties for the Plymouth, Wisconsin marketer. The other contenders were not disclosed. Ogilvy succeeds Grey in New York on the business.

Media spending on the brand exceeded $26 million in 2012 approached $22 million through the third quarter of 2013, according to Nielsen. Those amounts do not include internet spending.

“For us it feels very comfortable to drive up to Wisconsin to work for a company that makes a 100 percent real and natural cheese,” said Ogilvy Chicago president Lee Newman, who joined the agency in early 2012 from Wieden + Kennedy in Amsterdam.

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