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Ogilvy Johannesburg Scoops Top Brand Agency of the Year Award
Johannesburg, 27 August 2010 – Last night, Ogilvy Johannesburg won the inaugural Robyn Putter Top Brand Agency of the Year award at the annual Sunday Times Top Brands Awards. Named after former Ogilvy SA CEO and Ogilvy Worldwide Board Director - who passed away earlier this year - the award recognizes the agency behind the country's most popular brands.

A host of Ogilvy's clients, including BP, KFC, Nike, Cadbury chocolates and Coke – who won Brand of the Year – were winners in their categories, leading the agency to scoop the ultimate accolade at the end of the night.

The theme for this year's awards was 'what a year, what a country, what a brand', and showcased the iconic brands South Africans are most proud of. The results of the study by TNS Research Surveys, that gathered the opinions of 3500 South African consumers and 400 South African business leaders, clearly showed that those brands that continued to advertise during the tough times came out as the clear winners this year.

"The overall winners on the night were those that have managed to build strong, liberated brands, and tap into the sense of South African pride we have been feeling in the run up to the World Cup," explains Julian Ribeiro, MD of Ogilvy Johannesburg. "We are incredibly proud to partner our clients, and congratulate them all on their fantastic achievements."

"For us as an agency to have won the inaugural Robyn Putter award is an incredible honour," says Nunu Ntshingila, Ogilvy's CEO. "Robyn strongly believed in the power of creativity and imagination to engage consumers, and we are thrilled that our work and our clients are being recognized for having achieved just that."