DaVinci is Now Enfatico

By Matt Van Hoven 

Straight from Joe at PRNewser.com.

After some speculation, the WPP / Dell global marketing firm, known up until now as Da Vinci, has a permanent name: Enfatico.

The word comes from musical notation, where it means to play each note “with emphasis” or “emphatically.”

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For background, “Enfatico consolidates Dell’s worldwide marketing services, previously handled by more than 800 firms, into a single, wholly integrated global agency.”

Full release after the jump.


NEW YORK &#151 WPP, one of the world’s leading communications services groups, today announced that Project Da Vinci, the global marketing services firm being built with Dell Inc. as its first client, has a new permanent name and identity: Enfatico. In musical notation, Enfatico (pronounced en-FAH-ti-co) means play each note “with emphasis” or “emphatically.”

“As a next generation agency with a diverse mix of marketing services and talent &#151 all uniquely orchestrated to drive value for Dell and future clients &#151 we believe Enfatico effectively captures what makes us distinct,” commented agency CEO Torrence Boone.

Ken Segall, Enfatico’s global chief creative officer, drove the naming process from within the agency. “We were excited to take on the important challenge of selecting a new name and graphic identity for Project Da Vinci,” said Segall. “We believe Enfatico will become synonymous with a new standard for integrated marketing, insightful creativity, and collaboration in the client-agency relationship.”

Enfatico consolidates Dell’s worldwide marketing services, previously handled by more than 800 firms, into a single, wholly integrated global agency. To date, the agency has attracted approximately 600 employees, established operations in 13 cities including New York, Austin, San Francisco, Miami, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica, Sao Paulo, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney, and filled its senior leadership team.

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