2004 |
December
July |
- Turnover - £7,594.3m Pre-tax profit - £91.9m
- Aegis launches Isobar, the world’s first genuinely global, full service, digital marketing network.
- Carat Americas named ‘the company most media professionals would like to work for’ by Media magazine.
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2005 |
December
February
March
August
October
December
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- Turnover - £8,079.1m Pre-tax profit - £ 100.2m
- Appointment of Robert Lerwill as CEO
- Synovate moves into Australia and New Zealand with the acquisition of Aztec and Market Equity
- Aegis acquires glue London, the leading digital agency in the leading digital market, the UK.
- Mainardo de Nardis appointed as CEO of Aegis Media
- Synovate moves into Scandinavia with the acquisition of Univero
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2006 |
December
June
April
April
May
August |
- Turnover - £8,230.2m Pre-tax profit - £116.0m
- Aegis makes the first moves into word-of mouth advertising with the acquisition of Ammo
- wwwins launches icoke for Coca-Cola China
- Posterscope USA launched
- Fluid Lives ground breaking study into the digital media consumption of urban families across the globe
- Mainardo de Nardis becomes CEO of Aegis Media Global
- Aegis shareholders vote strongly against board representation for Groupé Bollore, Aegis’ 20% shareholder which also controls direct competitor Havas, on 3 occasions in 2006
- Aegis media records 2.7bn new business wins in 2006
- Digital becomes 20% of Aegis Media revenues, over three times ahead of average industry adspend
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2007 |
Februrary
March
June
May
June
June |
- Award-winning Agencia Click in Brazil becomes part of Isobar
- Isobar moves into Africa with the acquisition of Integrator
- Synovate enters into partnership with GMI – a leading panel and market research software provider. Giving Synovate access to over six million online customer and speciality panels
- Isobar is named the number 1 interactive agency by RECMA the media industry’s research group
- Aegis commits to leadership in mobile Marketing with the acquisition of Marvellous Mobile
- In a landmark deal; Aegis acquires Bluestreak, an ad-serving business. Bluestreak becomes part of the Isobar network and its ad-serving tools are fully integrated with Isobars highly-rated paid search bidding agent, iSEBA
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