Topic: Chicago
A steady stream of new business means more hands needed on deck for iCrossing. The digital agency today is announcing it has hired industry mainstays Christine Bensen, most recently at…
Whole Foods Market, the upscale purveyor of organic and local food, is opening a new store in economically struggling Detroit June 5 as part of its repositioning as a go-to…
Eighty-five-year-old Chicagoan Martin Shafron, a self-described “computer illiterate,” steps into the rotunda-like entrance of AT&T’s flagship store in the city’s high-end retail district known as the Magnificent Mile. Though Shafron…
Billy Corgan makes his advertising debut in this bizarre, low-budget and cobranded ad for Resistance Pro Wrestling and Chicago furniture retailer Walter E. Smithe. By way of explanation, the Smashing…
Digital agency Rokkan is bolstering its creative leadership, staffing up and entering two new markets, in the wake of a strong new business run and its acquisition by Publicis Groupe in December. Rokkan will…
Last April, just two months after Adidas inked Derrick Rose to a 14-year contract worth at least $250 million, the National Basketball Association MVP blew out his knee, and sports…
Specs Who From left: Karen Seamen, evp, COO and Chicago GM; Peter Krivkovich, president, CEO; Marshall Ross, evp, CCO; and Wanda McDonald, evp, CFO What Integrated marketing and communications agency Where Chicago headquarters After…
Bob Winter is heading South. After growing up in Chicago and spending the bulk of his career there—working at DDB, Leo Burnett and most recently, Young & Rubicam, where he…
DDB is seeking a new creative leader on the U.S. portion of its global McDonald’s account as Bill Cimino prepares to move to Young & Rubicam. Cimino has been U.S. creative…
Ric Van Sickle’s an ad man who bleeds gasoline. This weekend, he and a handful of his employees at Chicago agency Plan B will put their pedal to the metal in…
