MPG, New York, part of Havas, opened a division called MPG Entertainment to focus on sponsored and branded entertainment marketing.
The Starcom MediaVest Group, Chicago, part of the Publicis Groupe, opened a division named Play, specializing in marketing through video games.
Laredo Group, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which offers training services for media sales professionals, opened a division to offer sales representation to Web site and blogs devoted to advertising and marketing.
■ Unit9, London, is opening a division devoted to virtual reality, to be led by Henry Cowling as creative director; he had been creative director at the Viral Factory, London.
Prosecutors have said Odebrecht paid bribes on 100 projects in more than a dozen countries, in one case buying a local bank branch to hide the transactions, and even opening a division dedicated to payoffs.
GoCard in New York, an out-of-home advertising company, is expanding by opening a division, GoGorilla in New York, that will offer nontraditional ways to market to consumers, on products ranging from bar coasters and pizza boxes to fortune cookies and toilet paper.
Yet, when the teams open a division series Friday at Dodger Stadium, meeting in the playoffs for the third time in the Dodgers' last six postseason trips, St . Louismay have the advantage.
■ BooneOakley, Charlotte, N.C., opened a consulting division, named Eye, to be led by Jim Mountjoy.
In 1994, it opened a media division that made consumer mapping and travel products.
In January, she opened a new division, KTG Buzz, to expand her agency's public relations and promotional abilities.
Miscellany The New York office of Framestore opened a film division, with its first major project the movie "Salt" with Angelina Jolie.
