By Staff on May 14, 2012
Will the next CEO of French marcoms business Publicis Groupe be based in China? He just might if it falls to Jean Yves-Naouri (pictured) to succeed Maurice Levy. Naouri, COO of PG and one of the favourites to succeed Levy has been charged with boosting PG’s presence in China and he’s tackling the task with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged China, e-commerce, genedigi, interactive communications, Jean-Yves Naouri, king harvests, longtuo, Maurice Levy, publicis groupe, razorfish
By Stephen Foster on May 11, 2012
A while ago we wrote that WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s pay rise from £1m to £1.3m (which will trigger even larger bonuses) would be a ‘walkover,’ – shareholders wouldn’t necessarily be happy but the company was performing well so they’d just have to lump it. But that was before the bosses of UK FTSE [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Andrew Moss, Aviva, barclays, Bob Diamond, dublin agm, Francois Hollande, Jeffrey Rosen, Mark Read, Maurice Levy, pay deal, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, Sly Bailey, succession planning, trinity mirror, WPP, £13m package
By Stephen Foster on May 10, 2012
That’s what we all want to find out from the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics tomorrow (Friday) when former News of the World and Sun editor, and latterly CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper operation News International, Rebekah Brooks takes the stand. How do we know Dave sent all these text messages, and that Rebekah [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, Charlie Brooks, chipping norton set, David Cameron, Jeremy Clarkson, leveson inquiry, Liz Murdoch, Lord Leveson, Matthew Freud, media ethics, news of the world, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, pr maven, Rebekah Brooks, Robert Jay QC, Rupert Murdoch, text messages
By Stephen Foster on May 10, 2012
Surveys of this and that are spewing out of the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) Financial Management Conference in Florida, as they do on these occasions. One survey of the big advertisers present says that 65 per cent of them plan to reduce or restructure ‘agency compensation,’ but then such surveys always do. Which rather [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Research | Tagged accenture, aegis, agency payments, ana, association of national advertisers, auditors, carat, consultants, ebiquity, general motors, holding company revenue, Jerry Buhlmann, Joel Ewanick, low costs at any cost, performance incentives, surveys
By Stephen Foster on May 9, 2012
It has indeed been a busy old day at Chime Communications’ AGM as chairman Lord Bell says the board has agreed his plan to buy out the Bell Pottinger PR businesses (it’s not clear if the two WPP board directors voted for or against) at the same time as he issued a profit warning, citing [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR | Tagged advertising, agency pitch, Bell Pottinger, chime communications, easygroup, easyJet, golden goal, Lord Bell, Piers Pottinger, pr agencies, profit warning, Richard Shackleton, Simon Gulliford, sports marketing, Stelios, vccp
By Stephen Foster on May 9, 2012
Lord Bell’s London-based marcoms group Chime Communications is taking a big bet on sports marketing and has just announced an agreement to buy 60 per cent of Brazil’s Golden Goal for an initial £2.4m. With earnouts in 2014 and 2017 the deal could be worth a maximum £9.5m to Golden Goal founders and shareholders Cadu [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR | Tagged agm, Bell Pottinger, boyout plans, brazil, Cadu Ferreira, chime communications, chime sports marketing, easyjet pitch, essentially, fast track, golden goal, Lord Bell, Mauro Correa, olympics, Piers Pottinger, PR, Simon Gulliford, sports marketing, world cup
By Staff on May 8, 2012
Sir Martin Sorrell has been taking time out from trying to sort a diplomatic incident ‘twixt Argentina and the UK provoked by the latter’s Y&R ‘Malvinas’ commercial, to address the US Association of National Advertisers Financial Management Conference in sunny Florida. In it he no doubt pleased his audience of procurement executives and others by [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged argentina, association of national advertisers financial management coference, bank of america, coors, Dell, enfatico, JWT, malvinas ad, O&M, Sir Martin Sorrell, team wpp, uk, working horizontally, WPP, y&r
By Stephen Foster on May 7, 2012
The crew at Adam & Eve have a lot of answer for: their emotive epics for John Lewis have sparked a wave of imitators, like this commercial for new-style legal firm Quality Solicitors. Quality Solicitors is a network of 350 or so UK legal firms, designed to bring demystified legal service to the high street [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, Channel 4, emotional ads, hard road to travel, homeland, Jimmy Cliff, John Lewis, legal services network, Phil Clarke, quality solicitors, Rachel K Collins, team saatchi, Tesco, tesco law
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