Back to results Letters : Postcard from Cambodia Dear Ed: Including myself and ECD Peter Sutherland, there is also Ian Brown, CD in our Vietnam office. So that’s three Kiwis at Riverorchid Asia. We also have one Kiwi-born Australian as MD here at the Cambodian office wich is the biggest in the network and largest ad agency in the country with 80-odd. It’s a totally independent/boutique setup with no affiliations to the big boys. Main clients: Unilever (probably one of the only places in the world where they’re not in alignment with the lead agency in Europe), KFC, Hello (Malaysian telco), ANZ, San Miguel, Nokia and Nestle. Chris Howden [now CD at Adplus Napier] left here in ’08 – opting for the quiet life in rural NZ. I guess when you’ve been in this region long enough, you get addicted to the more laidback lifestyle. I can’t see myself coming back in the next few years anyway – life’s just too good here. What recession??? Hope every thing’s well back there. Seems from your updates there are a lot of changes going on – at Saatchis especially. Wouldn’t recognize the place these days. Droga looks like an exciting development (says a lot about NZ that we have an outlet before London). Special should change their name to Really Really Special and I wonder if all the cool shit JayGrey is doing in Sydney will filter down to G2/Blackwood and they eventually become a hot shop? Lazrus Simons senior writer, Riverorchid Cambodia lazrus.s@riverorchid.com Lazrus was replying to our invitation to tell us about the Kiwis at his agency. – Ed © Copyright AdMedia magazine June 2010 All material appearing is copyright and cannot be reproduced without prior permission of the publisher. Please contact the copyright officer: Ph 0-9-845 5114, Email copyright@mediaweb.co.nz.	Username Password Keep me logged in on this computer Forgotten your password? Enter your email address and we will email your password to you:

Letters : Postcard from Cambodia

Dear Ed:
Including myself and ECD Peter Sutherland, there is also Ian Brown, CD in our Vietnam office. So that’s three Kiwis at Riverorchid Asia. We also have one Kiwi-born Australian as MD here at the Cambodian office wich is the biggest in the network and largest ad agency in the country with 80-odd.
It’s a totally independent/boutique setup with no affiliations to the big boys. Main clients: Unilever (probably one of the only places in the world where they’re not in alignment with the lead agency in Europe), KFC, Hello (Malaysian telco), ANZ, San Miguel, Nokia and Nestle.
Chris Howden [now CD at Adplus Napier] left here in ’08 – opting for the quiet life in rural NZ. I guess when you’ve been in this region long enough, you get addicted to the more laidback lifestyle. I can’t see myself coming back in the next few years anyway – life’s just too good here. What recession???

Hope every thing’s well back there. Seems from your updates there are a lot of changes going on – at Saatchis especially. Wouldn’t recognize the place these days. Droga looks like an exciting development (says a lot about NZ that we have an outlet before London).
Special should change their name to Really Really Special and I wonder if all the cool shit JayGrey is doing in Sydney will filter down to G2/Blackwood and they eventually become a hot shop?

Lazrus Simons
senior writer, Riverorchid Cambodia
lazrus.s@riverorchid.com

Lazrus was replying to our invitation to tell us about the Kiwis at his agency. – Ed

© Copyright AdMedia magazine June 2010

All material appearing is copyright and cannot be reproduced without prior permission of the publisher.

Please contact the copyright officer: Ph 0-9-845 5114, Email copyright@mediaweb.co.nz.

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