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STW buys signage group

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Original article by Jake Mitchell
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 23 : 27-Jun-14

STW Group has acquired Active Display Group, a signage and display company with clients including Coles, Target and 7-Eleven. Marketing group STW owns over 75 advertising, ditigal, design, government relations and specialist communications agencies. Active Display is Australia’s biggest point-of-sale display and signage firm. Its forecast EBIT for 2014 is roughly $A8.5 billion

CORPORATES
STW COMMUNICATIONS GROUP LIMITED – ASX SGN, ACTIVE DISPLAY GROUP PTY LTD, TARGET AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, WESFARMERS LIMITED – ASX WES, REVLON AUSTRALIA, 7-ELEVEN STORES PTY LTD, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, COLES GROUP LIMITED, MYER HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX MYR

Revolt against REA price gouging growing

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Original article by Samantha Hutchinson
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 15 : 25-Jun-14

Melbourne real estate agents are challenging the high prices charged by online property classifieds portal realestate.com.au. A group of 300 real estate agencies are angry about successive price rises. They have appointed a media buyer to negotiate with owner REA Group for fairer advertising rates. It is thought that Vizeum Australia will represent the group, which will be known as Real Estate Digital Marketing Services

CORPORATES
REA GROUP LIMITED – ASX REA, VIZEUM AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, AEGIS MEDIA AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION, THE REAL ESTATE INSTITUTE OF VICTORIA LIMITED, REALESTATEVIEW.COM.AU LIMITED, RIGHT CLICK CAPITAL MANAGEMENT PTY LTD, CENTURY 21 REAL ESTATE, KAY AND BURTON, RAY WHITE REAL ESTATE, HOCKING STUART PTY LTD, MARSHALL WHITE AND COMPANY PTY LTD, BIGGIN AND SCOTT PTY LTD

Lions hunt bigger game

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Original article by Jake Mitchell
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 31 : 23-Jun-14

The 2014 Cannes International Festival of Creativity concluded on 21 June, with Australia gaining a total 63 Lion awards. This meant it was the fifth-most successful nation after the US, Brazil, the UK and France, compared with a ranking of fourth and 87 Lions in 2013. Apart from the awards ceremonies, advertising agency staff could participate in 60-plus seminars at the event, which overall attracted some 12,000 people from 94 nations. Its chair, Terry Savage, is an ex-leader of Australian cinema advertising group Val Morgan. He notes that the gathering’s importance was boosted when in 2003 Procter & Gamble was the first advertiser to attend

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CANNES INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING FESTIVAL, PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY, VAL MORGAN AND COMPANY (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD, GOOGLE INCORPORATED, MICROSOFT CORPORATION, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, UNILEVER NV, WPP GROUP PLC, McCANN-ERICKSON (MELBOURNE), DAILY MAIL AND GENERAL TRUST PLC, TOP RIGHT GROUP LIMITED, APAX PARTNERS INCORPORATED, GUARDIAN MEDIA GROUP PLC