WPP in 2012 – solid but not spectacular
WPP more or less matched rivals Publicis Groupe and Havas, beat Interpublic but lagged Omnicom with growth of 2.9 per cent in 2012, according to its full year accounts released today. Billings fell...
View ArticleIPA’s UK Bellwether Survey: the good news is that things aren’t quite as bad...
Ed Balls cals it ‘flatlining,’ others say the UK economy is bumping along the bottom – and clearly advertising is not immune from this stasis. That’s the message from the IPA’s latest quarterly...
View ArticleThe Chinese arrive in UK marcoms land as Blue Focus buys a fifth of quoted PR...
First up Huntsworth boss Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer as was) says he wanted to buy leading Chinese PR firm Blue Focus. But now BF, led by Oscar Zhao (left), has, in effect, turned the tables by...
View ArticleUK is the brightest spot in WPP results as advertising and media buying...
He’s a veritable babbling (or burbling) brook that Martin Sorrell. This morning he was on the airwaves again; promoting (or defending) WPP’s first quarter results and referring inter-alia to a world...
View ArticleWhy Aberdeen Asset Management is the Intel of global financial services
What’s the biggest, most successful, company you’ve never heard of? Impossible to say, of course. But a good candidate would be Aberdeen Asset Management. It’s in the FTSE100; it’s genuinely global....
View ArticleTesco’s Blinkbox takes Sky Atlantic’s sexy Game Of Thrones to a Dorset beach
UK retail giant Tesco is being very enterprising these days, buying TV streaming service Blinkbox for a start. And it’s somehow or other persuaded Sky to give it the rights to show its Sky Atlantic...
View ArticlePaul Simons: Ed Miliband/ Mail row shows why PR can be a loose cannon – with...
With the Ed Miliband/Daily Mail saga running in to its third week it poses a very interesting question about being careful what you wish for. The delicate balance between the interests of politicians...
View ArticleChina’s BlueFocus takes another big step on world stage with We Are Social...
There’s a new kid on the block in the global marcoms stakes and it’s China’s BlueFocus, capitalised in China at $3.7bn. Now the PR and digital company has bought a majority stake (82.8 per cent) in the...
View ArticleIs PR these days just about lying for the highest bidder? Here’s Israel’s...
Mark Regev, the spokesman the Israel government wheels out when things get really hot, has been on the airwaves recently as various bodies, including the United Nations, despair of Israel’s ruthless...
View ArticleWhere the money goes in marcoms companies – Irish PR company pays owner...
Irish PR company Drury Porter Novelli paid owner Omnicom a handsome dividend of €1.5m last year, even though umbrella company Drury Communications posted a €1.1m loss – due to €1.5m in ‘exceptional...
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