BREAKING: Suhana Gordhan leaves FCB for Duke Group

by MarkLives. Suhana Gordhan is the new ECD at Duke Group, effective 1 September 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Duke, Mark1, Positive Dialogue team up for scale

by Herman Manson. Five years after launching Duke, CEO Wayne Naidoo, has announced the launch of the Duke Group.

New CD for Duke

Gareth Cohen was recently appointed as creative director at ad agency, Duke. “Gareth is renowned for his expertise as a conceptual thinker and creative problem solver,” says Wayne Naidoo, Duke CEO. “We are thrilled to be able to benefit from his excellent integrative approach to the business, across all our client brands, budgets and media.” […]

New design director for Duke

Duke has appointed Pieter Janse van Rensburg as its new design director. Until recently, he was design director at Brand Union and, prior to that, he was creative group head at Saatchi & Saatchi. “Pieter brings with him a wealth of experience, as well as a refreshing and unique design philosophy,” says Wayne Naidoo, Duke […]

Duke — where John Wayne meets the Naidoos

by Herman Manson. Duke founders figured that, if they could save their business, they could save other businesses. And so was born the agency’s secret weapon: its Brains Trust.

DUKE

DUKE does a lot of things agencies are too constrained by, or too focused on their Converse sneakers to look at. Everything is about persuasion. Everything is digital. Everything is design. It does brands, ads, content, Africa, it creates from scratch, it clears the arteries of stuffy old brands, it creates business opportunities where there […]