Rothco

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Type Private Headquarters Dublin, Ireland		Industry Advertising Area served Global

Founded Dublin, Ireland (1995 (1995)) Key people Patrick Hickey, CEO; Richard Carr, Managing Director, Alan Kelly, Executive Creative Director

Rothco is an independently owned international advertising agency based in Dublin, Ireland.

History

Rothco was founded in the back of a wool shop in Dublin in 1995. Rothco is still managed by the original founding partners. In May 2012, Asia Pacific Breweries appointed Rothco as the global advertising agency for Tiger Beer, making Rothco the first Irish advertising agency to lead a global campaign for a non-Irish brand. Since then Rothco has developed and produced global ads for Heineken, Unilever, AON and apps such as Hailo & OpenTable. Locally, its clients include Tesco, Allied Irish Banks (AIB); Dublin Bus; Irish Defence Forces; Kerry Foods & Aer Lingus.

Awards and recognition

Forbes - Top 100 Global Ad Agencies That Know Social Media and Google.

2012 Silver Midas - Allied Irish Banks Small Business Support.

2012 Webby Awards Honoree - O2 'Bring Back the Roar'.

2013 APMC (Gold & 4 Silver); Love Radio Awards (Grand Prix)

2014 Kinsale Sharks (14 sharks); AdFX (2 Gold); Marketing Society (Excellence Award)

2015 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity (Bronze); APMC (3 Gold & 3 Silver); An Post Marketing Awards (Grand Prix); ICAD (17 bells); Kinsale Sharks (21 sharks)

2015 Rothco delivered a talk at The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity entitled ‘Blood, Sex & Storytelling. Turning a crowd into an audience and other lessons from Shakespeare’

2016 Rothco sponsored the Young Lions competitions at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity

2016 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity (Silver); APMC (5 Gold & 6 Silver); An Post Marketing Awards (4 Gold & 3 Silver)’ ICAD (14 bells); AdFX (Grand Prix & 5 Gold)

References

Rothco Wikipedia

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