The main incumbents are M&C Saatchi and indie Joe Public. Click here for a summary of other account changes this quarter or here for the full searchable database of account assignments.  In the news

M&C Saatchi enjoyed a significantly better year in 2015 than the year before, in which it lost two of its biggest UK clients. For 2015, group revenues were up 6% to £179m (or 10% at constant exchange

M&C Saatchi is to expand its CRM subsidiary Lida to the US following the acquisition of a majority stake in MCD Partners, which has offices in New York and Chicago. McCann Australia took further steps

giant Woolworths moved creative from Leo Burnett to M&C Saatchi. Dentsu Aegis's probable loss of Sony business was offset by a couple of significant gains. JM Smucker awarded Carat the consolidated North

M&C Saatchi brought its flagship London agency into line with most of its international outposts by making the senior management team part-owners of the business. Local chairman Tim Duffy, chief executive

M&C Saatchi bolstered its position in South Africa with the acquisition of admired digital agency Creative Spark. The Cape Town office of Creative Spark is expected to remain separate from the main M&

Dragon, FCB Inferno, Kindred, M&C Saatchi, McCann, Ogilvy and RKCR/Y&R. However controversy attended the selection of that list in 2013 when several other agencies who had produced award-winning public

with exclusive negotiations to sell its 150 remaining M Local outlets to investment company Greybull Capital. It has already closed more than 20 weaker performing outlets this year. Asda and Morrisons

In the news this past week: Agencies M&C Saatchi reported lacklustre performance for 2014, though there was superficially an improvement on 2013. The underlying numbers tend to become obscured in a

control of which it acquired in 2013 from M&C Saatchi, under the new name of Blue 449 and announced plans to roll out a new international micro-network under that name over the course of that year.