W&K shifts staff as Beijing office shuts

BEIJING - Wieden & Kennedy has closed its Beijing office after less than a year, moving staff to the W&K China headquarters in Shanghai.

The satellite was set up last year to service Nokia, whose China operations are headquartered in Beijing, following W&K’s win of the global creative account.

All Beijing staff, including recently appointed Nokia account head Christian Wolfe, have already been transferred. “It didn’t make sense, in terms of cost efficiency, for W&K to have a Beijing office  just for Nokia,” said a source.

The global creative account for telecoms giant Nokia is run out of London and fed with ideas from China, New York and New Delhi.