Finance
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Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley snaps up £90m House of Fraser
Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley has finally trousered a department store chain after years of trying, buying House of Fraser from…
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Mars picks MediaCom for $1.8bn global planning and buying in huge boost for WPP
Mars, which had previously cut and sliced its media across the world, has consolidated everything into WPP’s MediaCom, the biggest…
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Jody Smith of Broadsign: unlocking new communication potential in the era of smart cities
Smart cities have long been a concept reserved for sci-fi films, but with recent technological advancements, they’re quickly becoming a…
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Unilever boosts new regime at WPP with Sunlight Africa
Unilever’s Sunlight, once a soap (invented in 1884) is now a range of laundry products is now Africa’s second largest…
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Publicis closes San Francisco design outfit Odopod
A senior UK government press officer lost her job after saying that the day of the 9/11 attacks on the…
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House of Fraser agency pitches fly in the face of reality
Hope springs eternal in the ad business – as it does in retailing. Three agencies – Creature, Who Wot Why…
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Can superstar founder Alex Bogusky ride to the rescue of CP+B and owner MDC?
MDC Partners’ one-time flagship agency was Crispin Porter+Bogusky, when co-founder and creative leader Alex Bogusky was carrying all before him.…
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R3: big creative reviews drive new business upsurge – Saatchi US is top performer
A surge in creative reviews has resulted in a 36 per cent increase in global new business activity in the…
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Peter Stefou: how a summer of sport shows that TV is not just surviving it’s thriving
Our sweltering summer of sport, reality TV and royal weddings has been a reminder of the power of television to…
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