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Cheil Worldwide
Cheil Worldwide Inc. () is a marketing company under the Samsung Group that offers advertising, public relations, shopper marketing, sports marketing, digital marketing, etc. It was established in 1973 with headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. It is the country's largest and the world's 10th largest advertising agency, by 2022 revenues, and the world's 14th creative agency network. Its major clients include Samsung, Absolut, Adidas, The Coca-Cola Company, GE, General Motors, The Lego Group, Microsoft, Nestle, and Shell. It has 53 offices spread across 5 continents and CIS. History In 1973 when the company was established by Lee Byung-chul, the Korean entrepreneur who founded Samsung Group, the official name was Cheil Communications. It began conducting Korea's first nationwide lifestyle surveys in 1977; set up a joint venture with Bozell in 1989; and set up Hakuhodo-Cheil in 1999. The company changed its name to Cheil Worldwide in 2008. Cheil Worldwide opened its first in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cheil is the usual transliteration of the Korean word . Meaning "best" and forming superlatives with other nouns, it is used in the names of several companies: * Cheil Worldwide, a marketing company established in 1973 under the Samsung Group, headquartered in Seoul * Cheil Industries, an affiliate of Samsung established in 1954 as a textile firm that expanded into fashion, chemicals and electronic chemical materials in the 1980s * Cheil Industries FC, a defunct South Korean semi-professional football club located in Daegu * CJ Group (), from Cheil Jedang (, "best sugar"), a South Korean conglomerate holding company headquartered in Seoul and separated from Samsung in the 1990s ** CJ CheilJedang (), a food, pharmaceuticals and biotech company, headquartered in Seoul ** CJ E&M (), an entertainment and media company, headquartered in Seoul ** CJ CGV CJ CGV (; trade name, d/b/a CGV Cinemas) is the largest multiplex (movie theater), multiplex cinema chain in South Korea and also has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absolut Vodka
Absolut Vodka is a brand of vodka, produced near Åhus, in southern Sweden. Absolut is a part of the French group Pernod Ricard. Pernod Ricard bought Absolut for €5.63 billion in 2008 (equivalent to € in ) from the Swedish state. Absolut is one of the largest brands of spirits in the world (after Smirnoff and Bacardi) and is sold in 126 countries. History Absolut was established in 1879 by Lars Olsson Smith. Smith challenged the city of Stockholm's liquor marketing monopoly with his vodka. It was sold outside the city border at a lower price than the monopoly's product. Smith offered free boat rides to the distillery and ("Pure Vodka") was highly successful. In 1917, the Swedish government monopolized the country's alcohol industry. Vodka was then sold nationwide under the name . In 1979, the old name Absolut was picked up when the upper-price range Absolut Vodka was introduced. ''Renat vodka, Renat'' is the name of another vodka product sold by Pernod Ricard Sweden A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon Alexa
Amazon Alexa is a virtual assistant technology marketed by Amazon and implemented in software applications for smart phones, tablets, wireless smart speakers, and other electronic appliances. Alexa was largely developed from a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, acquired by Amazon in January 24, 2013. Alexa was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Amazon Echo Dot, Echo Studio and Amazon Tap speakers developed by Amazon Lab126. It is capable of natural language processing for tasks such as voice interaction, music playback, creating to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, providing weather, traffic, sports, other real-time information and news. Alexa can also control several smart devices as a home automation system. Alexa's capabilities may be extended by installing "skills" (additional functionality developed by third-party vendors, in other settings more commonly called apps) such as weather programs and audio feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinder (programming Library)
Cinder is an open-source programming library designed to give the C++ language advanced visualization abilities. It was released as a public tool in spring 2010 and can be viewed in many ways as a C++-based alternative to tools like the Java-based Processing library, Microsoft Silverlight or Adobe Flash Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a mostly discontinuedAlthough it is discontinued by Adobe Inc., for the Chinese market it is developed by Zhongcheng and for the international enterprise market it is developed by Ha .... It is also comparable to the C++ based openFrameworks; the main difference is that Cinder uses more system-specific libraries for better performance while openFrameworks affords better control over its underlying libraries. Unlike Flash and Silverlight, Cinder is generally used in a non-browser environment. This, combined with the speed provided by C++, makes the library more appropriate for heavily abstracted projects, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McKinney (advertising Agency)
McKinney is an advertising agency based in Durham, North Carolina, with offices in Los Angeles, New York City, Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix. History The agency was founded in 1969 as McKinney & Silver by Charles "Chick" McKinney & Mike Silver. The agency was later renamed McKinney and has been part of Cheil Worldwide since 2012. McKinney moved from Raleigh, North Carolina, to the American Tobacco Campus in Durham, North Carolina, Durham, NC in 2004. Ten years later, McKinney CEO Brad Brinegar appeared in the short documentary "Because No One Else Would," which was produced by Goodtree & Company and Horizon Productions to celebrate the restoration anniversary of the American Tobacco factory. In 2012, McKinney was named the most effective independent agency in the world by the Effie Awards and Warc. In 2013, McKinney's creation of the Mezamashii Run Project for its client, Mizuno Corporation, Mizuno, led to that company being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barbarian Group
Cheil Worldwide Inc. () is a marketing company under the Samsung Group that offers advertising, public relations, shopper marketing, sports marketing, digital marketing, etc. It was established in 1973 with headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. It is the country's largest and the world's 10th largest advertising agency, by 2022 revenues, and the world's 14th creative agency network. Its major clients include Samsung, Absolut, Adidas, The Coca-Cola Company, GE, General Motors, The Lego Group, Microsoft, Nestle, and Shell. It has 53 offices spread across 5 continents and CIS. History In 1973 when the company was established by Lee Byung-chul, the Korean entrepreneur who founded Samsung Group, the official name was Cheil Communications. It began conducting Korea's first nationwide lifestyle surveys in 1977; set up a joint venture with Bozell in 1989; and set up Hakuhodo-Cheil in 1999. The company changed its name to Cheil Worldwide in 2008. Cheil Worldwide opened its first inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bozell
Bozell is an American full-service public relations and advertising agency in Omaha, Nebraska. History Bozell traces its roots to the company founded in 1921 in Omaha, Nebraska by Leo B. Bozell, Leo Bozell and Morris Jacobs as Bozell & Jacobs, Inc.Atkins, Claire; Thomaselli, Rich (February 3, 2003). Interpublic to fold weakened Bozell into Lowe. ''Advertising Age'' In 1985, the firm was purchased by Lorimar Television, Lorimar and merged with another Lorimar entity, Kenyon & Eckhardt to form Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt. In 1992 the firm shortened its name to Bozell Worldwide. From 1986 to 1993, the company was headed by noted advertisement executive Leo-Arthur Kelmenson, who contributed significantly to the turnaround of Chrysler Corporation. Bozell is well known for its campaigns, which have introduced memorable slogans and ads, such as: *"Pork. The Other White Meat" *"Corinthian leather" *"Sega Genesis#North American sales and marketing, Genesis does what Nintendon't" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Dutch Shell
Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company, headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange. A core component of Big Oil, Shell is the second largest investor-owned oil and gas company in the world by revenue (after ExxonMobil), and among the world's largest companies out of any industry. Measured by both its own emissions, and the emissions of all the fossil fuels it sells, Shell was the ninth-largest corporate producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the period 1988–2015. Shell was formed in April 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom. The combined company rapidly became the leading competitor of the American Standard Oil and by 1920 Shell was the largest producer of oil in the world. Shell first ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. ( ) is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. It has been the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 2014."Nestlé's Brabeck: We have a 'huge advantage' over big pharma in creating medical foods" , CNN Money, 1 April 2011 It ranked No. 64 on the Fortune Global 500, ''Fortune'' Global 500 in 2017. In 2023, the company was ranked 50th in the Forbes Global 2000, ''Forbes'' Global 2000. Nestlé's products include coffee and tea, candy and confectionery, bottled water, infant formula and baby food, Dairy product, dairy products and ice cream, frozen foods, breakfast cere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The early 1980s and home computers, rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields. Microsoft is the List of the largest software companies, largest software maker, one of the Trillion-dollar company, most valuable public U.S. companies, and one of the List of most valuable brands, most valuable brands globally. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows. During the 41 years from 1980 to 2021 Microsoft released 9 versions of MS-DOS with a median frequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lego Group
Lego A/S, also known as the Lego Group, is a Danish construction toy production company based in Billund. It manufactures Lego-branded toys, consisting mostly of interlocking ABS plastic and rubber bricks. The Lego Group has also built several amusement parks around the world, each known as Legoland, and operates numerous retail stores. The name ''Lego'' is derived from the Danish phrase , meaning "play well". The company was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. In the first half of 2015, the Lego Group became the world's largest toy company by revenue, with sales amounting to , surpassing Mattel, which had in sales. As of 2025, the company is owned by the Kristiansen family via their family office, investment firm Kirkbi. History The Lego company was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter whose primary business of producing household goods had suffered due to the Great Depression. Initially producing wooden toys, the company later developed a syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Motors
General Motors Company (GM) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company is most known for owning and manufacturing four automobile brands: Chevrolet, Buick, GMC (marque), GMC, and Cadillac, each a separate division of GM. By total sales, it has continuously been the largest automaker in the United States, and was the List of manufacturers by motor vehicle production, largest in the world for 77 years before losing the top spot to Toyota in 2008. General Motors operates manufacturing plants in eight countries. In addition to its four core brands, GM also holds interests in Chinese brands Baojun and SAIC-GM-Wuling, Wuling via SAIC-GM-Wuling, SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile. GM further owns GM Defense, a namesake defense vehicles division which produces military vehicles for the United States government and military, the vehicle safety, security, and information ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
