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Australia wins country of the year at GroupM Asia event

Australia was named GroupM’s best-performing market in Asia Pacific at an internal  conference in Malaysia last week.

The announcement:

GroupM Australia was awarded the prestigious honour of ‘Country of the Year’ at the eMMies award night at their Asia Pacific Conference in Malaysia on Friday night.

The eMMie awards are GroupM’s internal annual awards recognizing the most outstanding work across the APAC region and honouring those truly living the company values.

The gala evening was co-hosted by 2 Australians, Anna Coren from CNN and Greg Graham from GroupM Australia. Confest was attended by over 500 people from all over APAC with special guest star Sigourney Weaver also making an appearance at the event.

This is the first time Australia has won this award. Stefan Burford from Mediacom Sydney was also awarded top honour in the ‘Excellence’ category.

John Steedman, Chairman of GroupM , accepted the award on behalf of his team of over 550 staff in Australia .

“This achievement is down to each and every one of you”, he said, “The talent across our group is second to none and that is the reason for the success we have enjoyed over the past 12 months.

I am privileged and honoured to work alongside 500+ talented individuals within our companies in Australia. This is your award.”

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