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From Fastline’s David Gapes:

The 50-odd staff at McCann were interviewed yesterday one-on-one by MD Glenda Wynyard & financial director Warwick Everall, who told each if they were staying or leaving.

It seems up to 40 staffers were made redundant.

In attendance at the agency yesterday (but keeping a very low profile, and taking no direct part in the staff meetings) were McCann Sydney executives Max Gosling & Reg Davidson.

Until these meetings started, staffers had been told nothing. Gosling & Davidson had been in Auckland for two days before the meetings, but had entered the McCanns offices only after work hours.

The NBR published a report this morning in which an unnamed McCann source played down the events of the past two days, and characterised the FCB takeover as "sharing offices". The report did not mention redundancies.