Finance
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Williams Lea Tag buys production studio Taylor James
Global production agency Williams Lea Tag has bought digital production studio Taylor James. Tag is now owned by private equity…
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Y&R takes on big high street challenge Carpetright
Y&R London has won the Carpetright carpets and flooring business following a pitch. Well good luck to them as Carpetright…
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WPP inches back to growth but revenue and profit both down
WPP, now helmed by CEO Mark Read, reported its first quarter of like-for-like growth since the first quarter of 2017…
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Early problems for WPP’s Read as Wieden+Kennedy muscles in on Ford account
Any relief Mark Read might have felt when his appointment as CEO was confirmed won’t have lasted very long as…
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Mark Read confirmed as WPP CEO – promising more of the same but better
WPP has confirmed the appointment of Mark Read, 51, as CEO to succeed Sir Martin Sorrell, just in time to…
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Coca-Cola looks forward to Costa, backwards with new ads
Coca-Cola is buying the UK’s Costa coffee chain from Whitbread for £3.9bn (Costa at least has the benefit that it’s…
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It’s Read for WPP – here are some of the challenges he faces
Mark Read being appointed as WPP’s successor to defenestrated CEO (and founder) Sir Martin Sorrell is a done deal it…
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Sorrell’s new MediaMonks pushes further into tech with launch of Labs operation
MediaMonks, the €300m cornerstone of Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4 Capital empire, is pushing further into tech with the launch…
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Lidl makes surprise exit from TBWA as battle for supermarket sales intensifies
Every big UK ad agency wants a supermarket account and Lidl has helped to keep Omnicom’s TBWA afloat for the…
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