Saatchi MD Dean Taylor and Bridget Taylor form Contagion with a slice of NZ Tourism

NBR’sHazel Phillips reports that New Zealand ad couple Dean and BridgetTaylor are set to open their own consultancy, Contagion which hasscored a slice of Tourism New Zealand – in a global, strategiccapacity, say NBR sources. NBR says the company has a 50/50shareholding, split between the couple, who are joint directors.Records show it was set up last month.

As previously reported by CB back in July,Dean Taylor departed the Saatchi& Saatchi Singapore & Malaysia CEO gig due to personal reasonsto return to NZ with wife Bridget Taylor, who was a CD atBBDO/Proximity, Singapore, and had resigned back in June. Bridget is well known to viewers of The Gruen Transfer for her occasional appearances on the panel.

Taylorpreviously was the managing director of Saatchi’s Auckland office andtransferred to run the Singapore agency at the start of 2009.