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http://adage.com/article?article_id=118814
DETROIT (AdAge.com) -- General Motors Corp. will announce Tuesday that it is moving its Buick account to Publicis Groupe's Leo Burnett from Interpublic Group of Cos.' McCann Erickson, Birmingham, Mich., without a review, according to executives close to the matter. It's not clear whether the account will be handled in Burnett's Detroit-area office in Troy, Mich., or in Chicago. Further, according to Ad Age sibling Automotive News, GM will move its GMC brand from Lowe Lintas & Partners Worldwide, New York, to Leo Burnett.
McCann was responsible for the launch effort behind the new Enclave crossover.
This is the third major agency shift for the auto giant since early 2006.
Good news for Burnett
The move is a coup for Burnett, whose Detroit-area office lost GM's national Cadillac account a little over a year ago without a review when the automaker shifted it to Modernista, Boston. The Burnett office remains Pontiac's national creative agency of record.
A Burnett subsidiary shares the regional dealer work for GM's Pontiac-Buick-GMC division with a McCann unit in a joint venture.
McCann lost GM's corporate-reputation account after a six-year run without a review last fall to sibling Deutsch, Los Angeles.
Executives from McCann and Burnett did not return calls, and a GM spokeswoman said she was unable to comment.
Attracting younger buyers
Buick has struggled in the past decade to attract younger buyers. Although its model lineup is in the process of being trimmed, its freshest models have been getting some kudos.
The brand has changed ad messaging three times in the past three years. Last month, Buick introduced the ad tagline "Drive Beautiful" for the launch of the new Enclave crossover in work from McCann.
Buick has also had some changes at the top. John Larson, general manager of the Pontiac-Buick-GMC division, left the automaker in May to head a radar-detector maker. His successor is Jim Bunnell.
I had been in contact with an HR recruiter at Lowe in NYC, but I suppose I won't bother anymore because I am def not in love with the cost of living in that city. I will still be sending my stuff to Deutsch in LA and Leo Burnett Detroit/Chicago.
I know the article doesn't specify whether the accounts will be handled here or in Chicago, but odds are this will all come back to the Troy offices.
And as for the Cadillac split...all the work that is coming out of Modernista is complete garbage. Zero continuity and bland, boring crap.
DETROIT (AdAge.com) -- General Motors Corp. will announce Tuesday that it is moving its Buick account to Publicis Groupe's Leo Burnett from Interpublic Group of Cos.' McCann Erickson, Birmingham, Mich., without a review, according to executives close to the matter. It's not clear whether the account will be handled in Burnett's Detroit-area office in Troy, Mich., or in Chicago. Further, according to Ad Age sibling Automotive News, GM will move its GMC brand from Lowe Lintas & Partners Worldwide, New York, to Leo Burnett.
McCann was responsible for the launch effort behind the new Enclave crossover.
This is the third major agency shift for the auto giant since early 2006.
Good news for Burnett
The move is a coup for Burnett, whose Detroit-area office lost GM's national Cadillac account a little over a year ago without a review when the automaker shifted it to Modernista, Boston. The Burnett office remains Pontiac's national creative agency of record.
A Burnett subsidiary shares the regional dealer work for GM's Pontiac-Buick-GMC division with a McCann unit in a joint venture.
McCann lost GM's corporate-reputation account after a six-year run without a review last fall to sibling Deutsch, Los Angeles.
Executives from McCann and Burnett did not return calls, and a GM spokeswoman said she was unable to comment.
Attracting younger buyers
Buick has struggled in the past decade to attract younger buyers. Although its model lineup is in the process of being trimmed, its freshest models have been getting some kudos.
The brand has changed ad messaging three times in the past three years. Last month, Buick introduced the ad tagline "Drive Beautiful" for the launch of the new Enclave crossover in work from McCann.
Buick has also had some changes at the top. John Larson, general manager of the Pontiac-Buick-GMC division, left the automaker in May to head a radar-detector maker. His successor is Jim Bunnell.
I had been in contact with an HR recruiter at Lowe in NYC, but I suppose I won't bother anymore because I am def not in love with the cost of living in that city. I will still be sending my stuff to Deutsch in LA and Leo Burnett Detroit/Chicago.
I know the article doesn't specify whether the accounts will be handled here or in Chicago, but odds are this will all come back to the Troy offices.
And as for the Cadillac split...all the work that is coming out of Modernista is complete garbage. Zero continuity and bland, boring crap.
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