15+ years on Saatchi’s returns to open Melbourne office with founding client Bank of Melbourne
January 23 2015, 3:59 pm | | 9 Comments
After more than 15 years Saatchi & Saatchi has once again opened an office in Melbourne, with founding client Bank of Melbourne, won in a pitch which included incumbent Ogilvy.
CB hears the Southbank office will soon have a staff of around 15 people headed by a management team expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Saatchi Australia CEO Mike Rebelo (pictured) could not be contacted, believed to be currently overseas.
Bank of Melbourne is the sister brand of St George Bank, whose account Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney won from Ogilvy, Sydney in February 2013.
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What was that great Ron Mather/Saatchi Melbourne saying?
How do you turn a thriving business into a small, failing business? Put a creative director in charge and wait six months.
Expensive to open; more expensive to close
And while we’re all wondering if S&S will call us about a job, the other news – Ogilvy losses big client – slips quietly into the background.
Enjoy your wins.
What was the point of censoring my earlier comment so as to make it meaningless? Better to have just killed it than replace the name with a title. It was the name of that creative director that gave the comment its acrid pungency. Of course you were only covering your arse in the even the protagonist decided to claim defamation. Your action, however, is an amusing illustration of the typical and frequent process within advertising itself; just pluck out that pesky idea and run with the flabby, innocuous, anonymous husk.
I worked at Saatchi’s during Ron’s time there. His brief, from Maurice, Charles and Jeremy [who visited the office and spoke to the staff about London’s expectations] was very clear – do great work – and don’t worry about anything else. And great work is exactly what Ron did.
Congrats Mike and Saatchi’s. I’m sure this is just the beginning of great things for the brand in Melbourne.
congrats mike – nice work
Saatchi just getting ready for Toyota when their entire marketing department moves to Melbourne.