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Maxus are delighted to announce the appointment of Nick Baughan as Managing Director.

Nick’s appointment comes after a very successful 24 months for Maxus UK, who have won 10 new clients in the last 12 months, including the Barclays global media account in September. This growth has seen the agency quadruple in size from 26 employees in 2009 to over 125 today.

Nick has worked within the GroupM family for the last six years, most recently as Head of Business Development at Mindshare. Prior to that he was a Business Director at MEC where he produced award winning work for clients such as Orange and Danone. While at MEC Nick spent a year seconded to BT, now one of Maxus’s biggest UK clients.

Lindsay Pattison CEO said “Maxus have experienced exponential growth in the last 2 years and Nick’s appointment will enable us to continue to develop our culture, our strategic offering and retain and nurture our fantastic talent; and ultimately carry our recent success into 2012 and beyond. Nick is a hugely smart and ambitious individual who will bring fresh thinking to Maxus; and we are delighted to be able to create a new opportunity for Nick within GroupM”

Nick Baughan said "I’m delighted to be joining Maxus. The phenomenal recent success of the agency is clearly testament to a talented and dedicated group of people and I’m thoroughly looking forward to working with Lindsay, Tim and the rest of the team.”

Nick’s appointment follows Tim Irwin’s promotion from MD to COO in November. Nick will report into Lindsay Pattison and will join Maxus in March.
 

Maxus have been awarded a 2 star accrediation as one of the best companies to work for in the 2011 Best Companies Awards. 

Best Companies Ltd are the same folk behind the prestigious Sunday Times list of 100 best companies to work for.  

This is a great achievement and builds on our success last year when we received a 1 star award and is also testament to the importance we place on ensuring Maxus is a great place work.

Maxus have been named Campaign Magazine's Media Network of the Year and runners-up in Media Agency of the Year.

This is fantastic news and tops off a great 2011 for Maxus.

Read the full article here :

http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/1109407/Media-Network-Year-Maxus/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH

Bench, the Manchester-based streetwear clothing company, has appointed Maxus to manage their Search & Display requirements.

Activity will focus predominately on PPC but an element of display activity also. Annual media expenditure will be approximately £500K.

Nik Burton, Head of E-Commerce said:

“We are delighted to have appointed Maxus, they really impressed us with their expertise and already we have seen improvements in our digital marketing capabilities. We look forward to delivering innovative & targeted campaigns together”.

Lindsay Pattison, Maxus CEO, said:

“We are excited to be working with such an innovative and youthful brand like Bench. They have appointed us to run their PPC & Display requirements which is testament to our expertise digitally which now accounts for over 30% of our billings”.
 

We're delighted to announce that as Maxus continue to growth from strength to strength, our Managing Director Tim Irwin has been appointed to Chief Operative Officer.

Lindsay Pattison CEO says “this will allow us to continue our fantastic momentum in new business and to further our data and digtal services which now account for over 30% of our income, helping us to deepen relationships with existing clients and produce award-winning work”.

Global CEO Kelly Clark commented, “this recognition is so well deserved, Tim has done a great job helping Maxus UK through an amazing period of change and growth and I’m sure the best is yet to come”.

Last night Maxus picked up 2 silver awards at the Media Week Awards ceremony.

Many congratulations to the BT and Triumph teams.

Next is the Campaign media awards where BT has been shortlisted for an award.....so watch this space.

Maxus are number 1 in Campaign's new business league following our recent Barclays account win.

Maxus have been shortlisted in this years Campaign Media Awards for their work with BT.

The BT Heart to Heart campaign has been shortlisted in the Best Total Communications category. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in November - so watch this space!

We are really pleased to be expanding our network with the launch of Maxus Los Angeles, Toronto & Mexico City offices. 

Maxus Global DEO said “This is an exciting time for Maxus, we’re really pleased to be expanding our global network despite the challenging economic climate.”

We are delighted to announce that Dan Yardley joins us as Finance Director for Europe, Middle East and AFrica and will be based in the Maxus London office.

Maxus have had 3 entries shortlited in this years Media Week Awards.  Our work for BT has been shortlisted in the Media Idea - Long Term category.  And we have 2 shortlisted entries, for Triumph & Fiat in the Media Idea - Long Term Small.  Well done to the teams and fingers crossed for the award ceremony on 27th October. 

Watch Wednesday's Apprentice to see our CEO Lindsay, Head of Press John and Press Manager Luke being pitched to by Lord Sugar's apprentices.  

The teams had to create a new 'free' magazine and pitch their magazine to media agencys - one of which is Maxus!