Kenny Lim
Mar 23, 2009

Petron picks three as creative agencies

MANILA - Petron, the Philippines' largest oil company, has reportedly selected DDB, McCann and incumbent Ace Saatchi & Saatchi as its creative agencies.

Petron picks three as creative agencies
The Filipino oil giant handed its estimated US$10 million media account to Starcom in July last year and is poised to announce which of its three business groups - corporate, lubricants and cars/LPG - the three winning agencies willbe charged with later this week.

The three were chosen from a field of six, which were narrowed to a shortlist at the beginning of the month. Another incumbent, Leo Burnett, was not picked while a third incumbent, Lowe, had missed the cut in a previous round.

The Philippines’ leading refiner reported a higher than expected net loss of 3.9 billion Philippine pesos (US$80.9 million) due to volatile crude oil prices in 2008 following a 6.4 billion peso profit in 2007.

After being taken over by San Miguel Corp, Southeast Asia’s largest F&B conglomerate, the oil giant is optimistic of regaining its profitability this year despite the global economic crisis.

Petron currently has 1,288 service stations nationwide.

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