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• NEW YORK, March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today TBWA\Chiat\Day New York announced Emily Wilcox as CEO.
• Emily will join TBWA on April 1 from Johannes Leonardo, where she held the role of CEO.
• It's the first move from new United States CEO, Erin Riley, after she took the reins of TBWA\Chiat\Day's agencies in New York, Nashville, and Los Angeles.
• Erin Riley, CEO, TBWA\Chiat\Day US noted, "Emily is new to Chiat, but she clearly has the heart of a Pirate, Disruption is in her soul.

• The goal of this strategy is to better position Veritas Farms on a path to profitability and increased cash flow.
• The acquisition will complement Veritas’ focus of helping people unlock their potential through the use of supplements and leverage Veritas' infrastructure to accelerate the growth of ASYSTEM and build the next generation of innovative wellness brands.
• ASYSTEM Labs offers brand and product development services to consumer brands, celebrities and creators seeking to unlock the huge potential of the supplements, vitamins, and nutritional products category.
• ASYSTEM and ASYSTEM Labs are incredible brands and a quintessential emblem of best-in-class, science-forward supplements.

• Matthew Smallwood, a founder and Managing Partner within Instinctif Partners, has relocated to the region from London to build and extend the investor relations (IR) and Financial Communications team, alongside Frederic Cornet, Head of MEA Capital Markets & Investor Relations.
• Matthew joined Instinctif's predecessor company, College Hill in 1989 and has been a mainstay in its Capital Markets business for over 30 years.
• He has a wealth of experience advising and promoting companies to investors, analysts and marketing companies through the media.
• Instinctif MENA boasts a growing blue chip client list across the region and scooped 13 out of 18 awards at the 2022 MEIRA awards in October last year.

• The 2023 Turner prize shortlist has been announced featuring British artists Jesse Darling, Rory Pilgrim, Ghislaine Leung and Barbara Walker.
• With a whirlwind 40-year socio-political history this lens can be applied to the prize.

From Thatcher’s 1980s to Channel 4’s 1990s

• Things changed in 1991 with Channel 4 as a hip new sponsor and a ban on artists over 50.
• The prize would raise interest in a newly youthful, increasingly fashionable area of UK culture.
• The 1990s prizes are remembered for Young British Art.
• The televised celebrity-strewn Channel 4 under 50s version of the Turner prize was part of this – feeding the feel-good 1990s vibes, fuelled by PR and underwritten by a debt-driven boom.

2000’s third way

• Some of the tax income from a seemingly buoyant economy was spent on the arts, which were newly redefined as consumer services and required to prove value and efficiency using metrics.
• Titled State Britain, it was created when Tony Blair passed a law to make it illegal to protest within a mile of Parliament.
• Positioned across the perimeter of the one mile from Parliament no-protest-zone, it probed a line between art and politics.

2008’s financial crash and a new outlook

• Shortlisted Turner prize art from that time didn’t say much about austerity or that moment, instead looking a lot like the art of the early 2000s.
• Anti-austerity movements found a home alongside trade unions in a Labour Party reimagined under the radically social democratic leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
• Lubaina Himid, aged 62, was named winner in 2017, after the Turner prize age cap was dropped.
• By implication, the work conveys something about the failure of institutions to provide either basic support or transformative change.
• Hope is found instead in a politics of community and care, vulnerability and interconnection, which offers occasional glimpses of better worlds.