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After Taking U.S. Bailout, Chrysler Hires Italian Agency
adage.com - 12/3/2009
After Taking U.S. Bailout, Chrysler Hires Italian Agency
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DETROIT (AdAge.com) -- Chrysler Group's Olivier Francois, the president-CEO of the Chrysler vehicle brand, has tapped Armando Testa, his ad agency for Italian Lancia, to refashion a Lancia commercial for the U.S. market. Hiring an Italian agency for the work may not sit well with American taxpayers, who bailed out an ailing Chrysler earlier this year with billions of dollars in loans. And all of the several hundreds of staffers of Chrysler Group's longtime ad agency, BBDO Detroit, will ...
Chrysler Taps Fallon As Ad Agency
adage.com - 12/4/2009
Chrysler Taps Fallon As Ad Agency
— adage.com — Chrysler has hired Publicis Groupe's Fallon to handle creative work for Chrysler brand, handled for years by... Omnicom Group's BBDO. (more) Chrysler Taps Fallon As Ad Agency

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AdScam/The Horror!:  Chrysler fucks taxpayers… AdAge quotes Julie Roehm!!!

AdScam/The Horror!:  Chrysler fucks taxpayers… AdAge quotes Julie Roehm!!!

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Chrysler fucks taxpayers… AdAge quotes Julie Roehm!!!
AdScam/The Horror! — ... After taking several zillion dollars from the US taxpayers to stay alive, Chrysler has hired an Italian ad agency for Italian Lancia, to refashion a Lancia commercial for the U.S. market. Meanwhile hundreds of ex-Chrysler BBDO staffers are hitting the street just in time for Christmas. AdAge has all the details, including a quote from ace douchenozzle, Julie Roehm! For fucks sake, AdAge, don’t stoop to the level of Fox Business News by giving this disgrace to the ad biz any kind of fucking legitimacy. ...

Chrysler fucks taxpayers… AdAge quotes Julie Roehm!!!
AdScam/The Horror! — ... After taking several zillion dollars from the US taxpayers to stay alive, Chrysler has hired an Italian ad agency for Italian Lancia, to refashion a Lancia commercial for the U.S. market. Meanwhile hundreds of ex-Chrysler BBDO staffers are hitting the street just in time for Christmas. AdAge has all the details, including a quote from ace douchenozzle, Julie Roehm! For fucks sake, AdAge, don’t stoop to the level of Fox Business News by giving this disgrace to the ad biz any kind of fucking legitimacy. ...

Chrysler Taps Fallon As Ad Agency
Original Signal - Transmitting Marketing — ... @ 03:13 PM NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Chrysler has hired Publicis Groupe's Fallon to handle creative work for Chrysler brand, handled for years by Omnicom Group's BBDO. The news came via a letter from the president-CEO of the automaker's Chrysler brand division, Olivier Francois, responding to a story posted on AdAge.com about the brand using a spot created by an Italian agency. Mr. Francois stated Fallon is currently working on new commercials for the carmaker that are set to begin airing this year. The assignment is a huge coup for Fallon, Minneapolis, which has been ...

Fiat and Chrysler Back Aung San Suu Kyi
The Inspiration Room — ... Comments at AdAge’s article on the Chrysler campaign suggest a level of resentment over Chrysler’s engagement with an Italian company after the federal US$6.6 billion bailout. Some suggested that Americans don’t know who Aung San Suu Kyi is, and don’t care. Olivier Francois, brand manager for both Chrysler and Fiat’s Lancia, made it clear in a comment that this was a one-off campaign for Chrysler, provided pro bono by Armando Testa. Chrysler is moving their advertising account from BBDO Detroit to Fallon, Minneapolis. ...

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