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The Talent Business Acquires MediaCentrix
28th November 2008
The Talent Business, the world's leading recruiter of marketing communications talent, has acquired Mediacentrix, London's leading digital recruitment agency. Paul Angeli, Managing Director of Mediacentrix, will join The Talent Business' London management team as a Managing Partner, and will also sit on The Talent Business' Worldwide Board.
Gary Stolkin, Global CEO of the Talent Business, says 'The Talent Business is continuing to invest behind our ability to deliver the world's most talented marketing communications professionals for the world's leading creative businesses. Paul Angeli and his team will significantly enhance our digital expertise and capability in London and across our network at a time when the majority of our clients are looking for the best digital and hybrid talent. This acquisition mirrors the investment we're making in digital across all of our offices. Paul runs a professional and highly collaborative team and I expect this to work well for both The Talent Business and our clients'.
Paul Angeli says, 'Our heritage and reputation in the digital talent space has resulted in a number of approaches from interested parties over the past twelve months. We chose Gary and The Talent Business team because of their global footprint and proven-track record in delivering senior management. Demand for digital skills is now pervasive across the broad spectrum of marketing services businesses and the merger of TTB and Mediacentrix means that we're in an ideal position to deliver digital talent to all these businesses'.
The Talent Business employs sixty people with key offices in London, Singapore, Shanghai, New York and Sao Paulo, and partners the world's leading communications agencies and businesses.
For more information, contact Gary Stolkin on + 44 20 7438 8526
CREAM 2008
ARE YOU THE BEST CREATIVE TALENT THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER?
Yes? Then you will be exhibiting your work to the creative industry in this year's CREAM exhibition.
Cream is an annual exhibition to introduce the best graduate creative teams/individuals from around the world to the most respected creative directors and leading industry insiders.
Launched in 1999 in recognition of the difficulty creative graduates have to get their work seen by prospective employers, The Talent Business' Cream award has become an unfailingly reliable guide to the best new advertising creative talent. Creatives first spotted by our annual selection of judges have gone on to win or be shortlisted for a host of other prizes – at the BTAA, D&AD, Clio, One Show, Cannes, Revolution and BIMA to mention a few. There really is no other exhibition like it.
The shortlist for this year's prize will be no different, with the award again open to all international advertising schools. This, combined with a great panel of judges who will be selecting the finalists, will ensure the standard more than maintains those high standards. The winning teams are picked by a group of independent judges consisting of various Creative Directors and Senior Creatives from the top advertising agencies. This year the panel already includes Kate Stanners (Saatchi & Saatchi), Nick Bell (DDB), Al Young (St. Luke's), Shaun McIlrath (Iris), Danny Brooke Taylor (MCBD), Yan Elliott & Luke Williamson (WCRS), Justin Tindall (Red Brick Road) Al Young (TBWA) and Simon Veskner, aka SCAMP (BBH).
The Talent Business: Management Buy-Out
29 January 2008
It was announced to the London Stock Exchange at 7.00am GMT on 29th January, 2008 that Gary Stolkin, Global Chief Executive, and Lucy Meredith, Chief Executive USA, have led a successful management buy out of The Talent Business Group from Hat Pin Plc. Private ownership will enable The Talent Business to continue to invest behind our ability to deliver the world's most talented marketing communications professionals for the world's leading creative businesses, as well as providing an equity structure and internal remuneration model that embraces our global management team and all seventy employees of The Talent Business worldwide.