Looks like the belle of the big-box ball is losing suitors. GSD&M President Roy Spence states, “I want to thank Wal-Mart for inviting us to re-pitch the business. I have decided to decline. We helped build Wal-Mart from $11 billion in sales to $312 billion. We declare victory […] and we are moving on.”
January marks the end of the 20-year relationship and GSD&M is apparently stoked “about the prospect of chasing retail accounts that Wal-Mart’s business long kept the agency out of.”
GSD&M remain mum on all that Julie bullshit but there’s little doubt the issue is an unsavoury contributor to the slicing of the cord.
Finalists from the previous review still running for the red-hot $580 million account include Ogilvy & Mather and Interpublic’s Martin Agency. Roy’s image at left courtesy of AdAge. – Contributed by Angela Natividad
