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- Jack in the Box
Jack in the Box, a West Coast fast-food chain, has launched a media review.The review is part of Jack in the Box’s commitment to regularly evaluating resources, partners and vendors. Horizon Media (HMI), the incumbent agency for 15 years, will be participating in the review process.Jack in the Box spent nearly $92 million on measured media in 2016 and $24.5 million in the first quarter of 2017, according to Kantar Media.
- Pan-American Life Insurance Group
Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG) announced that it has acquired Hola Doctor Inc. (HolaDoctor), the digital provider of health and wellness solutions for Hispanic audiences. The acquisition is a significant strategic initiative by PALIG that both expands its presence in the U.S. Hispanic market and strengthens its position as a healthcare leader in Latin America. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Over time, PALIG will be able to develop individual life, accident, and health insurance products tailored to the U.S. Hispanic market that can provide complementary benefits to those products already offered through HolaDoctor’s insurance brokerage unit.HolaDoctor will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Pan-American Life Insurance Group with a significant level of independence, although teams from both organizations will share expertise, product assets, and resources to grow the business. The acquisition is not expected to affect employment at Pan-American Life or HolaDoctor.
Siemens and FC Bayern have agreed to join forces for the future. Siemens has been named an FC Bayern München “Performance Partner” from the start of the new season. The three-year partnership will provide FC Bayern Munich and its fans with unforgettable sporting excitement in the future. Plans call for increasing the share of Siemens systems in and around the Allianz Arena as well as at the offices and training facilities on Säbener Strasse in Munich. In particular, software and cloud-based services in the areas of power engineering, building technology, safety and security technologies as well as intelligent mobility solutions for local public transportation and traffic management systems will play a major role in the collaboration.Siemens will bring its expertise in the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization for the benefit of FC Bayern and its fans. For a three-year period beginning on 1 July 2017, Siemens Healthineers, the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG, will also be an official partner and the exclusive healthcare technology partner of FC Bayern Munich. Siemens Healthineers will, among other things, equip FC Bayern’s training facilities and the Allianz Arena with the most advanced healthcare solutions in order to support player health and convalescence in medical examinations, through prophylactic screenings and in cases of acute injury. The imaging systems used to examine FC Bayern players will be supplied by Siemens Healthineers.
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- Teasdale Latin Foods
Teasdale Latin Foods (“Teasdale”), a national provider of private label and branded Hispanic foods to the retail, food service and wholesale channels and majority owned by private equity firm Snow Phipps Group, announced that it has acquired Rudy’s Tortillas (“Rudy’s”), an independent provider of high quality tortillas and chips into the foodservice channel. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The transaction advances Snow Phipps’ strategy of building a comprehensive Hispanic foods platform diversified across product, customer, channel and geographic exposure, and further enhances Teasdale’s national footprint in the Hispanic foods category, specifically within the attractive bakery and foodservice channel. With the acquisition of Rudy’s, Teasdale Latin Foods is able to provide an entire suite of private label and branded Hispanic food products to a diverse customer base across a variety of channels including retail, foodservice, wholesale, industrial and international. Rudy’s will continue to operate as a division of Teasdale Latin Foods with the existing management team continuing on with the business.Rudy’s is the fourth follow-on acquisition that Snow Phipps has completed in partnership with the Teasdale management team since Teasdale was acquired in October 2014. Teasdale Latin Foods brands include Teasdale®, Casa Fiesta®, Viva Mexico®, Mexene®, D.L. Jardine’s®, 7J® and Sontava!
- McDonald’s
McDonald’s is launching a review and seeking to consolidate its local U.S. creative accounts, AdAge reports.The review will be handled by Select Resources International and will include both current roster agencies and new agencies, who will begin pitching on July 17. We Are Unlimited, the dedicated creative agency Omnicom launched to service the client last November, is undergoing some changes. Other agencies working on regional McDonald’s accounts are Zimmerman Advertising, Doner, H&L Partners, Stern and Bernstein-Rein.All media duties have been moved to Omnicom Group’s OMD. OMD was already McDonald’s media agency at the national level. McDonald’s was the 33rd largest U.S. advertiser last year, with spending up 1.5% to nearly US$1.46 billion, according to the Ad Age Datacenter.
- PSA Group
PSA Group, the second largest car manufacturer in Europe and owner of Peugeot and Citroen, has appointed WPP”s MediaCom to handle global media duties. PSA Group spends aaround US$1 billion annually on ads.
- Ogilvy & MARCA
Ogilvy Mexico & Miami have signed a strategic joint-venture agreement with Miami based MARCA. The agreement will further extend Ogilvy’s US Hispanic service offering and strengthen MARCA’s current capabilities in digital, social media, and analytics. The partnership was announced by Tony Nieves, President, MARCA and Horacio Genolet, CEO of Ogilvy Latina.
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