McCann Worldwide New Zealand shutters shop – business to be handled out of Australia
In a shock move McCann Worldgroup NZ has closed, just four years after it reopened in Auckland in 2008.
As a result managing director Greg Eichmann, who returned to New Zealand in 2010 after three years as CEO of DraftFCB Australia, has been retrenched.
CB understands Oliver Maisey, who joined McCann Worldwide NZ as creative director in November 2010, and added the Sydney CD role in December 2011, is not affected by the closure.
McCann’s New Zealand business is now being handled by McCann Worldgroup Australia. However, McCann New Zealand will still operate out of a small office in Beaumont Street, headed by group account director Callum Hayes.
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Surely it’s only a matter of time before the Sydney office suffers the same fate…….
Not if Oliver has anything to do with it. He knows how to manage a business and a creative department.
Is that a threat, or a promise?
Ollie is a good creative, a smart bloke and a good manager absolutely. But if he could turn shit to sugar he wouldn’t be wasting his time in advertising.