Finance
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Cheil Worldwide snaps up integrated agency Iris
South Korea-based marcoms company Cheil Worldwide has bought a stake in global integrated agency Iris, with an option to move…
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Droga5 shuffles top management – is founder David Droga planning something new?
Droga5 has promoted New York CEO Sarah Thompson to global CEO, which means she’ll also be overseeing the agency’s operations…
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Is India the key to Publicis’ $3.7bn Sapient deal?
Well Ad Age thinks it is, pointing out that 8500 of Sapient’s 13000 employees work in India, home of cheap…
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Publicis Groupe embarks on yet another mystifying digital reshuffle
Publicis Groupe bought Montreal-based Nurun, which has 11 offices across the world, in September from Quebecor Media in a $115…
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M&C Saatchi tries again in New York with $8m minority stake in Shepardson Stern & Kaminsky
M&C Saatchi has bought a 33 per cent stake in New York agency Shepardson Stern & Kaminsky for $8m, with…
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BBH must be wondering what exactly it’s doing wrong
Christmas is a time for ghost stories and nightmares as well as festive jollity and there’s more of the former…
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Paul Simons: big changes ahead for UK supermarkets – is it time for SainTesco or TASDA?
The news on Sainsbury’s results and gloomy trading forecast (notwithstanding the warm glow from its Christmas campaign) underlines the shifting…
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GroupM’s case against government media switch to Carat hinged on market share/lower prices contention
Does having a bigger share of the media market mean you (you being a media agency) get cheaper prices from…
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UK Gov, Carat and WPP’s M4C – news from the front
Loyal readers will know that the UK government has switched its media buying account from WPP’s bespoke agency M4C (left)…
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