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The Up&Up Group (formerly M&C Saatchi Group South Africa) is one of the African continent’s leading independent creative group of companies and is 100% South African owned. We are guided by our founding principles of optimism, openness, opportunity, and a belief in creativity’s ability to elevate everything.
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The Up&Up Group unveils its new, distinctive corporate identity
The Up&Up Group, which was formerly known as M+C Saatchi Group South Africa before local management bought back full ownership of the business from the international PLC, has officially unveiled its new corporate identity (CI) which is designed to embody the group’s vision that creativity elevates just about everything. 25 Sep 2025 Read more
The Up&Up Group opens doors for future talent with 2026 LevelUp Grad Programme
The Up&Up Group, formerly known as M+C Saatchi Group South Africa, has announced the launch of its 2026 LevelUp Grad Programme, a 12-month, full-time internship designed to equip ambitious young graduates with the skills, experience, and opportunities needed to excel in the fast-paced world of creativity, strategy, and communications. 22 Sep 2025 Read more
Karen Nelson-Field | The attention deficit: How to overcome it
Attention is core to branding, as brands exist to be seen, trusted, and loved, and without attention, campaigns cannot deliver value. But what if your brand is not receiving the attention you think it is. 15 Sep 2025 Read more
The Up&Up Group hosts internationally recognised speakers at conference for marketers
The Up&Up Group, one of the biggest independently owned creative groups of companies in Africa, is poised to host a broad array of its clients, industry leaders and global thought leaders at its conference, ‘Elevate: Unlock the Upside’. 26 Aug 2025 Read more
(L to r: )Deborah Whitlock, marketing director at The Up&Up Group, Sharleen James, MD at Razor, Uyanda Manana, head of account management at Levergy and Lindsey Rayner, MD at Levergy (Images supplied, image composite by Lesley Svenson ©Bizcommunity)
This women’s month, the country reflects on the role of women across various industries. The Up&Up Group women in leadership give their perspectives, first-hand, on the state of the advertising and marketing industries as it relates to women and their prospects. 8 Aug 2025 Read more
The Up&Up Group, together with key clients, has partnered with Dr Karen Nelson-Field (pictured) to deliver South Africa’s first-ever data on digital media attention metrics (Image supplied)
A partnership between The Up&Up Group and some of its key clients, with Amplified, will deliver data from the South Africa survey to form part of Amplified’s attention dataset. 6 Aug 2025 Read more
Razor co-founder and CEO, Dustin Chick is joined in the leadership team by (l to r) Ima Peter, head of corporate, Wynand Coetzer - head of strategy (including its data offering), Sharleen James - managing director, Chris Lazley - executive creative director (Image by Lesley Svenson @ Bizcommunity)
PR is no longer just about professional PR, it is about a deeply embedded and strategic communications function that both promotes and protects brands and reputations - exactly what Razor PR set out to do when it opened its doors in 2020. 17 Jul 2025 Read more
Exclusive: Razor PR's Wynand Coetzer - 3 Lessons in measuring the impact of communications
Measuring the impact of communication can be tricky, especially when those conversations tend to happen after the fact. Once we have done all the strategy, once we have produced all the assets, once all the media engagements and reputation management has taken place – only then do clients and agencies start asking the question: how do we measure all of this? 15 Apr 2025 Read more
At the start of February, The Up&Up Group appointed Deborah Whitlock (right) to the position of marketing director and Sharleen James (left) as the MD of Razor PR (Image by Bizcommunity, Lesley Svenson)
At the start of February, The Up&Up Group appointed Deborah Whitlock to the position of marketing director and Sharleen James as the MD of Razor PR. 12 Mar 2025 Read more
Exclusive: Makosha Maja-Rasethaba takes strategic lead at M&C Saatchi Abel
The Up&Up Group has announced that Makosha Maja-Rasethaba is the new chief strategy officer of the Group’s integrated creative agency M&C Saatchi Abel. 5 Mar 2025 Read more
Sharleen James, new managing director of Razor PR says she has always had an interest in the brand and communications side of the industry(Image supplied)
Speaking to Sharleen James, recently announced as Razor Public Relations’ – a division of The Up & Up Group (the African affiliate of M&C Saatchi) new managing director, she says currently it is an interesting time for the communications space. 3 Feb 2025 Read more
Sharleen James, new MD for Razor PR, and Dustin Chick, Razor, CE (Image supplied)
Advertising and communications leader Sharleen James will take up the position of managing director for Razor Public Relations – a division of The Up & Up Group (the African affiliate of M&C Saatchi) effective 1 February. 30 Jan 2025 Read more
Up&Up Group has acquired a strategic stake in 2Stories. Pictured: 2Stories co-CEOs Joanne Hope and Anelde Greeff (image supplied)
The recently formed Up&Up Group has acquired a strategic stake in content marketing agency 2Stories. 29 Oct 2024 Read more
Mike Abel, The Up&Up Group executive chairman, reflects on The Up&Up Group’s decision to buy back all the equity in the previous M&C Saatchi Group South Africa from the global M&C Saatchi Plc (Image supplied)
Reflection is a good exercise as it gives one the opportunity to develop a sense of perspective. Close your eyes briefly and try to remember the dominant narrative a year ago, eight months ago, six months ago. 17 Oct 2024 Read more
Razor PR crowned Medium Consultancy of the Year at PRCA Platinum Awards
Razor PR was named Medium Consultancy of the Year at the recent Public Relations Consultants Association’s (PRCA) Annual Global Platinum Awards that took place in London. 27 Sep 2024 Read more
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In the turbulence of the 21st century, we find ourselves grappling with an ‘unprecedented’ level of instability. Seemingly concurrent crises are not just a passing storm; they are a new climate affecting everything from geopolitics to the economy and, crucially, the reputation of brands and the companies behind them. 18 Sep 2024 Read more
Source: ©  Local agency M&C Saatchi Abel has acquired all the shares in the local agency from the Plc. Mike Abel will remain on the global executive leadership team with his core worldwide responsibilities including the marketing portfolio and other key priority projects
M&C Saatchi Abel will acquire all the shares owned by M&C Saatchi Plc in the local South African agency and group of companies in South Africa, comprising Connect, Levergy, Razor, Dalmatian and Black & White. 11 Apr 2024 Read more
Source: Mirko Vitali  Overall, South African millennials, who make up nearly half of South African adults, manifest differently from the global cohort
Overall, South African millennials, who make up nearly half of South African adults, manifest differently from the global cohort. 22 Jun 2023 Read more
Dustin Chick is the managing partner of Razor. He says there are five reasons to look forward to PR in the year ahead
We need to have a deeper conversation in the PR industry, one that dives underneath the trends and that seeks to understand what's causing these themes to bubble to the surface. 20 Jan 2023 Read more
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As communicators, we spend a lot of our time on the news. We put a huge amount of effort into understanding news cycles, the audiences who consume the news, the content that will be naturally sharable and the messaging that most resonates - all as key tools of our work. It makes sense, words have power and when we choose the right words, we create what become the most powerful conversations. 6 May 2020 Read more

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