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  • Named Asia Pacific Consultancy of the Year by Holmes Report at the 2016 SABRE Awards ceremony in Hong Kong recently

    MSLGroup named APAC Consultancy of the Year by Holmes Report

    By A Correspondent

     

    MSLGroup was named Asia Pacific Consultancy of the Year by the Holmes Report at the 2016 SABRE Awards ceremony in Hong Kong recently. It is the second time in four years that MSLGROUP has received this highest of Asia recognitions by the Holmes Report. In addition to the agency honour, Glenn Osaki, MSLGROUP’s Asia President, was presented the Outstanding Individual Achievement SABRE Award for his contributions to the company and the industry during his 30 years of leadership at MSL, especially the past 12 years in Asia.

     

    Said Osaki:  “We are very proud to be recognised as Asia Pacific Consultancy of the Year for the second time in four years by Holmes Report. MSLGroup has transformed itself to lead the growth and the revolution of the communications industry in Asia. Now even further powered by the closer collaboration with our sister agencies within Publicis Groupe, we will continue to support clients in their marketing transformation, delivering interdependent solutions with the Power of One.”

  • The agency claims it bagged the Star Network account last year when it in fact has only part of the account of the television network

    ‘Indian Consultancy of the Year 2013’ Perfect Relations claims winning entire Star network account when it hasn’t

    By A Correspondent

     

    Valerie Pinto

    As reported earlier, Perfect Relations was awarded ‘Indian Consultancy of The Year 2013’ by the Holmes Report recently. Last week, after the MxMIndia report appeared, the agency issued a press release highlighting the same.

     

    The Perfect Relations press release claims the agency has secured several coveted pitches in the past year including that of the Star Network. While we were unable to verify the claims on all accounts won, we do know that only part of the Star India business is with Perfect Relations and not that of the entire network as the press release would make us believe. MxMIndia confirmed this with the PR head at Star India. Perfect Relations handles PR for only three of the Star India channels.

     

    We hope that the information given to the Holmes Report wasn’t with a similar half-truth.

     

    Meanwhile, the communique quotes the agency’s CEO Valerie Pinto saying: “Having helped in the creation and the evolution of India’s communication industry for over 20 years, and being the advisory for more than 2500 clients, Perfect Relations is pleased that its effort in pioneering the role of growing this industry has been recognized.”

     

    Dilip Cherian

    “We are also pleased with the Holmes Report instituting new awards that recognize the need and complexities of the evolving PR industry,” said Dilip Cherian, Founding Partner, Perfect Relations.