Aegis Media China has been appointed as strategic media partner of COFCO, China’s largest food processing, manufacturer and trader, taking over COFCO’s media buying business immediately from five-year incumbent Mediacom. The appointment carries an anticipated annual media spend of approx $50m.

Email: joy.clark@aemedia.com

Isobar has entered Vietnam, one of the fastest growing digital markets, by appointing Emerald Digital Marketing as its official affiliate. Providing full digital marketing services, Emerald is one of the top digital agencies in Vietnam and its clients include Heineken, Samsung, BMW and Air France.

Email: sayuri.singh@isobar.com

The US’s MEDIA magazine selected Carat as Agency of the Year for 2012. This prestigious award recognises vision, innovation and leadership in the media services industry and celebrates the agency that rose above the rest and represents best of class in the media industry. This award is another first in Carat’s buoyant award season.

Email: holly.potter@aemedia.com

Vizeum has won the Schwartau media planning and buying business in Germany. Schwartau is the producer of cereal bars, jams, dessert sauces and fruit drinks. The brands “Schwartau” and “Corny” are leaders in the German market.

Email: alexander.weimer@aemedia.com

Vizeum Italy has won the Lottomatica Group media planning and buying account worth Euro10 million after a pitch which involved MEC, the incumbent agency. Lottomatica Group owns the two most popular lotteries in Italy, LOTTO and 10eLOTTO. The online gaming and betting market is fast expanding in Italy so the challenge to reinvent mainstream lotteries is an exciting one.

Email: laura.rosati@aemedia.com

Carat France has won the GORE-TEX® South Europa account. Carat was already responsible for GORE-TEX media planning in France since 2009, and will now be responsible of the Southern Europe area including France, Italy and Spain.

Email: celine.letu-tortorici@aemedia.com

After three years managing all paid search campaigns for Mondadori Group, and sales campaigns for BOL.it, iProspect Italy has won the digital performance account for the Mondadori Direct, business unit of Mondadori Group one of the main Italian publishers. Meanwhile in the UK, iProspect has been awarded the UK SEO and PPC for Benenden Healthcare Society.

Email: laura.rosati@aemedia.com

Trigger Isobar was tasked by Red Bull to design a digital campaign that would reaffirm its position as the premium energy drink for South Africans, while tempting consumers into trying its tasty new flavours. Read how Trigger Isobar drew in new consumers while keeping existing ones excited.

Email: anine.deWet@isobar.com

Isobar Mobile’s Tim Dunn took part in E-Consultancy’s Google Hangout on the subject of whether mobile internet can aid the High Street, as part of Internet Week Europe 2012. The session highlighted the advantages that mobile presents to shops rather than just a threat to drive purchases elsewhere.

Email: mandy.rayment@isobar.com

Dawn Rowlands, CEO, Aegis Media Sub Saharan Africa was named Maverick of the Year (Gold Winner) at the global Stevie® Awards for Women in Business. Aegis Media SSA also won Silver for its Thought Leadership Digibates (Communications/PR Campaign of the Year) and Marketing and Comms Manager Lana Van der Walt collected Bronze for Female Employee of the Year. Congrats!

Email: lana.vdwalt@aemedia.com

The 9^th Aegis Media Thought Leadership Digibate was held with key industry leaders openly debating and discussing the way in which research locally is conducted, what the results are and what 2013 holds for this fast growing digital landscape in Africa. Panel included Mark Molenaar (Director, TNS Global), Peter Stewart (CEO, IProspect), Arthur Goldstuck (MD, World Wide Worx), Craig Page-Lee
( MD, Posterscope) and Butch Rice (MD, Pondering Panda).

Email: lana.vdwalt@aemedia.com

Aegis Media proudly supported Movember and raised USD 75,000 as a network. Carat Canada, as agency of record for Movember, secured national broadcast and digital placement delivering over 1 million impressions. Carat New Zealand rallied the entire industry and country through pro bono consultancy and the donation of media inventory with a value of NZD 471,000.

Email: frank.krikhaar@aegisplc.com

Carat Argentina raced to success with General Motors this month by entering a joint team in the Chevrolet 10km race in central Buenos Aires. For every kilometre that the team ran, Carat donated 1kg of food to its charity partner Ramón Carrilo at the Villa Soldati. In total, 195kg of food was donated to the local children.

Email: frank.krikhaar@aegisplc.com

Team Epic Atlanta joined the call to action for Hurricane Sandy by organising a food truck to deliver 15,000 hot meals and 20,000 take away packs to victims in Far Rockaway, NY. Team Epic’s client ConAgra donated the meals. The global appeal for Hurricane Sandy relief, which Aegis is supporting, has reached GBP 225,000.

Email: frank.krikhaar@aegisplc.com