Finance
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Engine sells to Hollywood powerhouse for £100m
Chicago-based private equity firm Lake Capital is buying Peter Scott’s Engine Group; the company that owns WCRS, US-based digital agency…
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Pro-Union London adfolk get their sporrans in a twist
The date of the Scottish referendum to decide whether Caledonia remains part of the UK (to which it was welded…
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Apple enters pay-TV sports market
Just in Brazil so far, but the news will be greeted warily by existing pay-TV companies such as Britain’s BSkyB…
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City of London Police crack down on illegal websites
The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at the City of London Police has begun replacing advertising on copyright infringing…
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Jim Houghton of Results International: why it’s OK to sell your agency but a disaster to sell your soul
Some transactions – even high value ones – are simple and one-dimensional. When you sell your car you want the…
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Can a ‘no change’ rebrand save McDonald’s?
Surely some mistake? No, McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson (left) has promised analysts in the US that the company is about…
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US investor move puts Interpublic back into play
Michael Roth’s Interpublic has done rather well recently – in its home territory of the US anyway – as it…
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Murdoch cashes in on Sky franchise while Malone’s Liberty waits in the wings for ITV
I don’t know what 83 year-old Rupert Murdoch’s on but he should do the decent thing and share it with…
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WPP’s GroupM closes on half of all UK media spend
RECMA has revealed its UK media agency billings computations for 2013 and WPP/GroupM’s Mediacom was the biggest with billings of…
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