• WedgeWEDGE 1 - The Lee Chang-Yi window: he is six months into the job at pitch time, has an explicit brand-marketing remit, has a personal Kia-turnaround track record tied to marketing refresh, and has worked across Mazda/Ford Lio Ho/Luxgen/Audi/Kia - meaning he has personally been the client of multiple Taiwan AORs and knows the agency landscape from the buyer side. This is the highest-value single relationship to build in the entire 2227 portfolio. Pitch a 'first-100-days' Nissan Taiwan brand-relaunch program. Reference his Kia growth multiple.
• WhyMAJOR: Foxtron acquired Luxgen's operating assets for NT$787.6M (US$25M) on Dec 19, 2025 - five sales subsidiaries, 22 showrooms, 25 service centers, ~600 employees. Yulon retains ONLY the Luxgen brand IP and legacy ICE manufacturing. Closing expected Q1 2026 pending FTC approval. This is an existential restructuring - the operational marketing engine for Luxgen is moving to Foxtron/Hon Hai. Foxtron has explicitly said 'a new management team would be installed.' New management at the operating company plus new ownership plus the highest-stakes brand transition in Taiwan auto history = textbook AOR opening. (Source: focustaiwan.tw/business/202512220018)
• WhoLee Chang-Yi (李昌益) / Calvin Lee · Vice GM Yulon Nissan - operational owner of Nissan + Infiniti brand marketing and dealer network in Taiwan (since Nov 2025)

1. W1WEDGE 1 - The Lee Chang-Yi window: he is six months into the job at pitch time, has an explicit brand-marketing remit, has a personal Kia-turnaround track record tied to marketing refresh, and has worked across Mazda/Ford Lio Ho/Luxgen/Audi/Kia - meaning he has personally been the client of multiple Taiwan AORs and knows the agency landscape from the buyer side. This is the highest-value single relationship to build in the entire 2227 portfolio. Pitch a 'first-100-days' Nissan Taiwan brand-relaunch program. Reference his Kia growth multiple.
2. W2WEDGE 2 - The Luxgen-Foxtron brand split: when operations move to Foxtron but the brand IP stays with Yulon, the question of 'who controls brand marketing' becomes a live negotiation. WPP can pitch BOTH sides - to Yulon as the brand-IP custodian, and to Foxtron/Hon Hai as the new operations owner. Hon Hai is a massive WPP-eligible global account opportunity in its own right. Frame this as 'Taiwan's first homegrown auto brand needs Taiwan's first integrated brand-and-operations agency model.'
3. W3WEDGE 3 - n7 international launch (Australia 2026, potentially North America via Foxtron Camia/Bria): Taiwan-only AOR work is one tier of value; international launch is a different tier and a different scope unit. WPP's global network is an unmatched fit here vs. local Taiwan agency competitors. This is the wedge that local Taiwan AORs cannot match on.
4. W4WEDGE 4 - The Carat/dentsu conflict opening on media: Yulon Nissan's media has historically sat at Carat (dentsu group). dentsu's biggest Taiwan client is Hotai-Toyota - Yulon Nissan's #1 direct competitor. The conflict-of-interest argument that 'your media agency works for your largest competitor' is a clean GroupM/WPP Media wedge to start the relationship via media before extending to creative.
5. W5WEDGE 5 - Group consolidation pitch (Yulon + Yulon Nissan + Luxgen + Yulon Finance 9941): no single AOR currently holds the whole 2227-group portfolio. WPP can pitch a roof-deal across the four assets at the holding-company level via Chairwoman Yen Chen Li-Lien. This is the high-difficulty, high-reward pitch and is genuinely available because the relationships are not consolidated today.
6. W6WEDGE 6 - The Stan-Shih-era brand revival: there's a powerful 'Taiwan's only homegrown brand' narrative latent in Luxgen that has not been activated since 2010. With Foxtron now owning operations, the brand is at a 'second-founding' moment. Pitch a 10-year brand platform that reconciles 'Taiwan-made + Hon Hai-tech + global ambition.' This is a creative-led, awards-grade pitch.

• MAJOR: Foxtron acquired Luxgen's operating assets for NT$787.6M (US$25M) on Dec 19, 2025 - five sales subsidiaries, 22 showrooms, 25 service centers, ~600 employees. Yulon retains ONLY the Luxgen brand IP and legacy ICE manufacturing. Closing expected Q1 2026 pending FTC approval. This is an existential restructuring - the operational marketing engine for Luxgen is moving to Foxtron/Hon Hai. Foxtron has explicitly said 'a new management team would be installed.' New management at the operating company plus new ownership plus the highest-stakes brand transition in Taiwan auto history = textbook AOR opening. (Source: focustaiwan.tw/business/202512220018)
• MAJOR: Lee Chang-Yi appointed Vice GM of Yulon Nissan Nov 16, 2025 - just six months before this pitch. Explicit remit includes 'brand marketing' and 'integrated marketing strategy.' Personnel changes of this scale at this level virtually always trigger an agency review within 6-12 months. (Source: news.u-car.com.tw/news/article/86164)
• MAJOR: NO publicly announced creative AOR for either Luxgen or Yulon Nissan since at least 2007 - meaning either the relationship is so quiet it has never been pressworthy, or (more likely) the work is distributed across multiple project agencies and an in-house team. The latter is consistent with the lack of award-show presence: neither Luxgen n7 nor any recent Nissan Taiwan work appears in Brain Magazine's 2023-2024 Excellence Awards winner/finalist lists. A high-spend advertiser absent from awards = either deliberately low-key or under-served by current agencies.
• Counter-signal: Yulon Nissan does have a long-running relationship with 凱絡 Carat Media (公開的 2007 record). dentsu/Carat Taiwan would be the incumbent media partner to dislodge - and Carat/dentsu is in the broader same holding group as Hotai-Toyota's creative agency Dentsu Creative. Conflict-of-interest opportunity for WPP/GroupM to argue clean-room separation.
• Counter-signal: Nissan Taiwan's relationship to Nissan global's TBWA/Nissan-United JV is loose, not structural. Unlike Toyota-Dentsu where there is a Tokyo-level capital JV, the Nissan-United Hakuhodo+TBWA JV doesn't automatically own Yulon's Taiwan distribution work. This removes the biggest single barrier that protects Hotai-Dentsu.

• Yen Chen Li-Lien (嚴陳莉蓮) / Lilian Chen YenChairwoman (董事長) - ultimate budget approver across Yulon Motor + Yulon Nissan + Luxgen + Yulon Finance + Yulon Land

  since 2018 (took over after husband Kenneth Yen 嚴凱泰 died Dec 2018)

  Widow of Kenneth Yen, daughter-in-law of Vivian Wu Shun-wen (吳舜文, 'Iron Lady', d. 2008). Family-anchored chairwoman, not an operational marketer but the single person who can authorize an AOR change across the group. Reportedly cautious, prefers low public profile; key relationships go through the group's senior advisors and family channel. Note: the brief named 'Vivian Yen President' - this conflates two people; the current chair is Lilian Chen Yen.

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• Lee Chang-Yi (李昌益) / Calvin LeeVice General Manager (副總經理), Yulon Nissan Motor

  since Nov 16, 2025 (just-appointed)

  MAJOR SIGNAL. Just hired (Nov 2025) from Kia Taiwan where he was President 2020-2025 and grew sales from ~2,700 to >10,000 units. Prior stints at Mazda, Ford Lio Ho, Luxgen, Audi Taiwan. Explicit remit per Yulon Nissan press release: 'brand marketing, sales system rebuild, market development, brand management' for Nissan + Infiniti, including 'optimizing dealership network' and 'strengthening competitiveness in NEV/passenger markets.' This is the single most actionable person for any agency pitch on the 2227 portfolio right now. He is brand-new in the seat, has no inherited agency loyalty, has a personal track record (Kia turnaround) tied to refreshed marketing, and explicitly has a brief to revitalize a struggling brand. This is the prototype 'new CMO equivalent' inflection point.

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• Eason Zheng (鄭逸生)Manager - Yulon Group (marketing & business planning); previously Yulon-Nissan marketing planner/manager (LIVINA/TIIDA/SENTRA top-10 launches)

  since unknown

  Mid-senior practitioner who has both Nissan-Taiwan brand-team history and Yulon Group HQ exposure. Useful relationship-mapping contact; not the budget owner but a high-information node.

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• Lin Chia-Hua (林家華) / Liao Yen-Chu (廖彥竹)Nissan Digital Marketing Section Chief / Manager, Yulon Nissan Motor

  since unknown

  Working-level digital marketing leads inside Yulon Nissan. The day-to-day operators where any digital/performance/CRM pitch lands.

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• unknownGroup CMO / Chief Marketing Officer equivalent

  since unknown

  Yulon publicly does NOT list a group CMO. Marketing is fragmented across three operating units: (1) Yulon Nissan Motor (Nissan distribution, now under VGM Lee Chang-Yi), (2) Luxgen Motor Co. (the in-house Taiwan brand, in active restructuring), and (3) Yulon Motor parent (chassis/manufacturing, plus Yulon Land + Yulon Finance 9941 + China Motor 2204 stake). The fragmentation itself is a strategic insight - there is no single CMO to convert, but also no single fortress to break. The Lee Chang-Yi appointment is a de-facto attempt to centralize marketing authority inside the Nissan operation.

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Yulon is a fragmented marketing organization at exactly the moment of maximum strategic instability. Three semi-autonomous marketing engines: (1) Yulon Nissan distribution - just got a new VGM (Lee Chang-Yi, Nov 2025) with an explicit brand-marketing brief; (2) Luxgen - operationally being sold to Foxtron, with Yulon keeping only the brand IP, meaning the brand-vs-operation split itself is being negotiated; (3) Yulon parent + Yulon Land + Yulon Finance (9941) + China Motor (2204) stake - diversified group communications. Posture across all three is tactical and dealership-led rather than master-brand-led. No public hero campaign. No AOR-of-record acknowledged. No award-show presence. The n7 launch was the biggest auto launch in Taiwan history by pre-order volume yet there's almost no public creative-credit trail - implying the work was internal + project vendors, not a real AOR. This is the opposite of Hotai's Dentsu-anchored prestige posture. It's structurally MORE contestable, but also less budget-concentrated.

• Luxgen n7 EV launch (純電SUV首發)2024 · unknown (no public AOR credit; widely understood to be handled internally by Luxgen marketing with project-based creative vendors; Hon Hai/Foxtron tech-day events handled by Foxconn corporate comms team) · Launch event Oct 2023 (price reveal) + Hon Hai Tech Day 2024 LR variant + 25,000 pre-orders + Jan 2024 first deliveries + ongoing digital/dealership comms

  The most successful vehicle launch in Taiwan history by pre-order volume. Positioned as Taiwan's first sub-NT$1M EV. Hero message orbits 'pure / 純粹' and 'made in Taiwan + Foxconn'. Co-branded narrative with Hon Hai/Foxtron leveraged Hon Hai Tech Day as the main creative-event surface. Marketing-Interactive and AdAge have run zero AOR coverage on this launch - the entire campaign appears to have been managed by an internal team with project vendors, not a Tier-1 AOR.

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• Luxgen n7 sustained sales campaign (2024-2025)2025 · unknown · Continued dealership + digital comms; monthly sales regularly 1,000+ units (2nd-best-selling EV in Taiwan behind Tesla Model Y); May 2025 promo 'NT$60K discount + NT$1M zero-interest financing'

  Mature post-launch retention/price-promo phase. Increasingly tactical and discount-led, the classic signal that the brand-led launch creative has done its job and the work has shifted to performance/dealership scope - exactly the kind of work where AORs can be brought in to professionalize.

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• Nissan Taiwan range marketing (KICKS, X-TRAIL, SENTRA, ARIYA)2025 · historically split across 達彼思 Bates, 意識型態 Ideology, 聯眾 Union, 偉太 STW, 異言堂 (per Brain 2007 record); media on 凱絡 Carat (2007). Current status: undisclosed, no recent public AOR announcement. · TVC + digital + dealership integrated, Taiwan-specific (NOT TBWA/Nissan United global creative)

  Yulon Nissan has historically run a Taiwan-localized agency roster, NOT inherited from the Tokyo Nissan-United (TBWA + Hakuhodo JV) relationship. This is structurally different from Hotai-Toyota-Dentsu, where the global JV (Toyota 66% / Dentsu 34%, Delphys) locks the local market. Nissan Taiwan distribution sits in a Yulon-owned JV, not directly under Nissan Motor Co., so the global TBWA/Nissan-United mandate does not automatically flow through.

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• Foxtron Bria + Luxgen n7 LR co-promotion (2025 Hon Hai Tech Day, 2026 Taipei Auto Show)2025 · Hon Hai corporate comms led, Luxgen marketing supporting · Auto-show launch + integrated event PR + product video

  Joint Foxtron/Luxgen presence at Hon Hai Tech Day 2025 and Taipei Auto Show 2026 (Foxtron Bria debut + n7 RPA remote-park feature update). Signals that brand work is now coordinated with Hon Hai's far larger comms apparatus - which itself works with multiple agencies and PR shops. This is a meaningful change in the gravitational center of the Luxgen brand.

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• Luxgen brand legacy - Stan Shih / Cher Wang / Wang Hsia-chun celebrity TVCs (historical reference)2010 · unknown · Celebrity-endorsement TVC campaign at original Luxgen launch

  When Luxgen launched, it enlisted Acer founder Stan Shih (施振榮), HTC CEO Cher Wang (王雪紅), and Liuli founder Wang Hsia-chun for endorsement TVCs - an unusually ambitious 'Taiwan industrial pride' brand-build. The brand never lived up to that aspiration commercially. This is the cultural anchor reference for any pitch that wants to revive Luxgen's 'Taiwan home-grown brand' narrative for the n7-era audience.

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• Lee Chang-Yi (李昌益) / Calvin LeeVice GM Yulon Nissan - operational owner of Nissan + Infiniti brand marketing and dealer network in Taiwan (since Nov 2025)
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• Yen Chen Li-Lien (嚴陳莉蓮) / Lilian Chen YenChairwoman Yulon Group - sole authority for cross-group AOR consolidation, signs off on any deal that crosses Yulon Nissan + Luxgen + Yulon Finance + Yulon Land
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• Yen Chen-Tai (嚴陳泰)Yulon Group Chairman / senior family figure (verify current exact title; family-side relationship gatekeeper)
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• Liu Yang-Wei (劉揚偉) / Young Liu - Hon Hai/Foxtron ChairmanPost-Foxtron-acquisition owner of Luxgen operations and the larger Foxtron EV strategy. Not a Yulon employee but the new co-decisionmaker on Luxgen marketing post-Q1 2026.
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• Eason Zheng (鄭逸生)Yulon Group marketing/business planning manager - high-information internal contact, not a budget owner
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Do NOT walk in with a Nissan-global TBWA assumption. Yulon Nissan distribution is structurally Yulon-owned (not Nissan Motor-owned in the same way Hotai is not Toyota-owned), so the TBWA/Nissan-United global JV does NOT automatically govern the Taiwan account. Treating Yulon Nissan as a sub-instance of Nissan global will both insult the Yulon family-business sensibility AND miss the actual decision authority (which is Lilian Chen Yen + Lee Chang-Yi, not Yokohama). Do NOT pitch Luxgen as a pure Yulon account post-Dec 2025; the operations are moving to Foxtron and any pitch needs to acknowledge the brand-vs-operations split candidly. Do NOT lead with 'we'll bring you EV expertise' - the n7 has been the most successful EV launch in Taiwan history, the Foxtron-Hon Hai relationship gives them more EV manufacturing depth than any agency can match, and the gap is in BRAND emotional storytelling and dealer-experience integration, not EV. Do NOT under-resource the Hon Hai relationship layer - Foxtron now owns the operations, so any agency that cannot also work credibly with Hon Hai corporate comms (a far larger, more political organization) will be discounted. Do NOT pitch a single AOR consolidation as the lead idea to the Chairwoman before earning the right via a beachhead win at Yulon Nissan or Luxgen first. Do NOT pitch awards-led creative as the lead message - this is a family-controlled, commercially-driven group that values market-share recovery and brand-asset preservation over Cannes Lions. Lead with the Kia-turnaround analog (Lee Chang-Yi's actual track record) not the Power-of-Vulnerability analog (Hotai-Dentsu's story).

• Hotai Motor (2207) - Toyota distribution, 36.7% Taiwan market share, dominant competitor with Dentsu AOR lock-in
• China Motor (2204) - Mitsubishi distribution; Yulon actually holds a stake in China Motor, so there's a cousin-relationship not a pure rivalry
• Tesla Taiwan - direct EV competitor to Luxgen n7 (Tesla Model Y is the #1 EV; n7 is #2)
• BYD - looming global threat, limited Taiwan presence today
• Hon Hai / Foxtron - now CONVERGENT not competitive; post-Dec 2025 Foxtron owns Luxgen operations
• Other Pitch Intel auto accounts on the WPP Taiwan roster: cross-reference China Motor (2204) and any Hotai-related accounts to ensure consistent positioning

• ? Who handles Luxgen n7 creative TODAY? No public AOR credit exists. Is the work fully in-house at Luxgen Motor's marketing department, or is there an undisclosed project-based agency? Brain Magazine 2023-2024 directories may have a private answer.
• ? Is the Yulon Nissan media account still at Carat (dentsu)? Last public confirmation was 2007. Critical to confirm before pitching the conflict-of-interest media wedge.
• ? What is Lee Chang-Yi's existing agency relationship from Kia Taiwan? He spent 5 years there - whichever AOR served Kia's growth from 2,700 to 10,000 units has a high prior of following him to Yulon Nissan. WPP needs to either claim that history or counter it.
• ? Does the Foxtron-Luxgen acquisition (closing Q1 2026) include any agency-of-record transfer, or does Luxgen-the-brand keep its current marketing vendors at Yulon? The contract terms will reshape the pitch geometry materially.
• ? What is Hon Hai's current agency relationship for Foxtron and for Hon Hai corporate brand work? If WPP/GroupM already serves a piece of Hon Hai globally, that's a powerful cross-leverage to claim the Luxgen-Foxtron operating account.
• ? Is there an active n7 Australia launch brief out for tender for 2026 entry? International launch is a near-certain agency RFP moment.
• ? What is the actual reporting line for Eason Zheng inside the Yulon Group HQ (vs Yulon Nissan)? Determines if he's a Lilian Chen Yen-adjacent figure or a Lee Chang-Yi-adjacent figure.
• ? Where does Yulon Finance (9941) marketing sit - is it consolidated with Yulon Nissan dealership financing, or fully separate? Group AOR pitch viability depends on this answer.
• ? Is Chairwoman Lilian Chen Yen's stated 2025 'EV growth + lifestyle business momentum + energy storage' strategy (per Digitimes May 2025) accompanied by a CMO-level hire we haven't found yet? A hidden CMO would invalidate the 'no central marketing head' premise.