In the spring of 2000, Reed Hastings, the C.E.O. of Netflix, hired a private plane and flew from San Jose to Dallas for a summit meeting with Blockbuster, the video-rental giant that had seventy-seven hundred stores worldwide handling mostly VCR tapes.
Douglas Gaffney, a broker with the Schultz Organization/TCN Worldwide who handled the lease deal for Bollinger, said, "The added amenities were critical".
That figure would place the newly merged agency second among all media brands in worldwide billings handled, behind only Mindshare, part of the WPP Group, at $17 billion.
Most travel search worldwide is handled by three "GDCs" or Global Distribution Companies – Travelport, Sabre and Amadeus.
The Vatican is currently revising the norms for how bishops worldwide should handle sexual abuse cases.
The Los Angeles and New York offices of Weber Shandwick Worldwide will handle public relations for Sirius and the New York office of Momentum will handle event marketing.
Intel recently placed in review its worldwide advertising account, handled by Euro RSCG Worldwide and other agencies owned by Havas.
The worldwide Shell account is handled by JWT London and the assignment to create campaigns for Shell fuels and lubricants in North America is handled by JWT Houston.
They have handled the worldwide assignment since 1996, when Euro RSCG, the Intel agency in Asian-Pacific markets, was awarded the consolidated account along with Dahlin Smith White in Salt Lake City, the Intel agency for the United States since 1991.
Abraham L. Newman, an assistant professor at Georgetown University and a specialist in European privacy issues, said Europe's spotlight on privacy could offer companies like Apple and Google the chance to reorganize the way they handled policies worldwide, using European standards in their corporate strategy.
