Finance
-
New UK local TV network plays hunt the viewer
There’s something about local TV, in the UK anyway, that makes most people yawn (I’ll be keeping an eye out…
Read More » -
Jane Austin: why WPP boss Sir Martin thinks there should be a Grand Prix for data
Cannes 2014: What do you buy the man who has bought everything? If you’re looking for a present for Sir…
Read More » -
WPP’s Millward Brown buys EffectiveBrands
WPP qualitative research operation Millward Brown has bought Amsterdam’s EffectiveBrands marketing consultancy to combine it with its own consultancy operation…
Read More » -
Paul Simons: why the German discounters (and Waitrose) have changed British supermarkets for ever
Is the UK grocery market going through irreversible change? It’s not been a great week for some of the supermarket…
Read More » -
Andy Law and Mark Andrews launch new hi-tech content company Supercommunications
Andy Law and Mark Andrews’ new company backed by listed software and technology company Parity Group is launching as Supercommunications.…
Read More » -
McCann creative boss Linus Karlsson sets up design and entertainment agency Ming
Star Swedish creative Linus Karlsson (left), who made his reputation in the US at Fallon and then as one of…
Read More » -
South Africa’s The Hardy Boys joins WPP’s JWT empire
Another day, another deal and now WPP’s JWT network has bought a majority stake in South African creative agency The…
Read More » -
Is number two Naouri on his way out at Publicis Groupe?
We wrote earlier that the failure of the Omnicom/Publicis Groupe merger might result in the accelerated passage of some Omnicom…
Read More » -
Kantar buys PR monitoring firm Precise Media
WPP is still busily acquiring away and also sticking to its strategy of trying to build research operation Kantar into…
Read More »