The Hallway celebrates two years of building Australia’s fastest growing auto brand as it bids farewell to GWM
Independent creative agency The Hallway announced today that it’s parting ways with Chinese owned Ute and SUV manufacturer GWM following a pitch that was triggered by the company’s contractual policies and requirement for regular agency pitch.
In the time since The Hallway was appointed to the account, the agency’s work – from masterbrand strategy to a raft of model launches, sponsorship activations, website redesign, 1-1 comms and brand experience – has spearheaded GWM’s rise to being Australia’s fastest-growing volume auto brand, with multiple Top 10 industry sales results in recent months.
In a joint statement, The Hallway partners Simon Lee and Jules Hall said: “We’d like to take this opportunity to publicly celebrate and thank our amazing team who dedicated themselves to growing the GWM brand, achieving record commercial growth for their business. And we wish GWM every success moving forward.
“Our focus now is on forming a new long term partnership with an ambitious automotive company with whom we can continue to apply our considerable expertise in this sector, building meaningful connections between a brand and its audience and driving sustainable sales growth.”
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Thats sad and a real shame. A very fickle industry we exist in.
No announcement…
I honestly thought this work was really fresh for the category and had an international feel. I’m sorry to hear that the client is moving on, you all deserve better than that. As someone pointed out, what a fickle industry we’re in.
No agency retains this client past the first contract, no matter how hard they work.
massive loss for GWM
It’s a twitchy world right now. Every client is up for pitch if you give them a nudge. At least you’re not a network.
The benchmark has been set very high for whoever is next to take the reins
Having worked with the team at The Hallway, this really f’ing sucks and highlights everything wrong with this industry. Hats off to The Hallway for creating some really great work. I hope everyone that had to depart the agency because of this finds a new home ASAP. How does one relax when the possibility of losing your job at the end of 24 months hangs over your head?
To everyone at The Hallway who did an outstanding job of lifting this brand from complete obscurity to what it is today
What a brilliant portfolio of work – and getting this stuff though is not easy. Hallway, DON’T go to MG… they’re the same, probably worse.
We got it
I’ve not worked at the Hallway. But know some people there, whom I like. They’ve smashed the work over the past 12 months, and seemed to have picked up some awards also. Good luck to them for whatever is next.
there needs to be an industry list for these types of companies who milk agency’s for everything and leave at the drop of a hat to do the same to the next one. why? so we can charge appropriately up front, knowing whatever investment we make in the relationship is properly paid for before they exit. but I suspect we are not smart enough to do it. we continue to give so much way for free and they know it.
Doordash.
When others go low, stay high.
Subaru will be next to pitch creative after they get through the media component.
Every car brand will go up for pitch if it’s not global aligned.
What’s with all the love here. This press release was a carefully crafted strategic move to make their shortcomings seem less bad. The truth is, they couldn’t hold onto the business. If they were good, this wouldn’t be happening.
Good luck to the next agency dealing with poor operations and a company that has a track record of having no plan. Every car they release is from 5 years ago in China, the new Jolion is just being flogged here because they had old stock they wanted rid of…
Not sure thats fair comment.
Banks are next. One has gone already, watch the others follow
Kid, I’ll give you a fair comment when business decides to play fair.
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