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July 9 2021, 9:34 am | BY Ricki Green | 7 Comments Talented designer Juliana ‘Julz’ Bacmaga suffered a brain aneurysm on Tuesday 15 June at her workplace, Innocean Australia. She succumbed to the brain injury on Friday 25 June. She was just 48 when she passed away.   Due to COVID restrictions in Sydney, Juliana’s cremation will take place on 9 July with only her partner Brett Thurston and close friends. Juliana worked in the advertising industry for more than 25 years as a designer, from her first job at John Singleton Advertising, to Whybin TBWA, to Studio Manager at The Campai...

End of an era: WPP AUNZ to exit ASX at end of business today May 19, 2021 10:37 In May 2016 STW Group and WPP received the final tick of approval from shareholders to merge, thus eliminating the STW name from the Australian media and advertising landscape. At the time, the $512 million takeover by WPP was being billed as a “merger of the two businesses”. Almost 432 million shares in STW were assumed by WPP, creating a new business to be known as WPP AUNZ. Today, the legacy of STW and WPP AUNZ ends, with WPP AUNZ to be delisted from Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) “from the close o...

Tuesday will be a sad day for famed ad man John Singleton. That’s when the ad agency empire he created – which started with John Singleton Advertising and grew into the STW conglomerate before merging with WPP to form the locally listed WPP AUNZ – will be swallowed up completely by the London-based parent WPP plc. It’s the advertising equivalent of the foreign Campbell’s soup company taking over Arnott’s. In other words, a tragedy for the once unassailable Aussie agency. Who’s to blame? Fingers are pointed at the lacklustre local board, headed by Robert Ma...