Finance
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Omnicom’s TBWA buys majority in Germany’s Heimat
Omnicom, still licking its wounds (or maybe breathing a sigh of relief) after the failure of its merger with Publicis…
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Mercedes falls victim to internet ‘robot’ ad scam
Pretty well everything in the Mercedes-Benz garden is lovely at the moment with its new sexier-looking cars hoovering up sales…
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Asda goes for gnomes in the price war – but UK supermarkets have forgotten how advertising works
UK supermarkets are embroiled in a price war following the depredations of German discounters Aldi and Lidl – and the…
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Fred & Farid own up to scuppering ‘Omnipub’ merger
If you wondered why the Omnicom/Publicis merger, so confidently trumpeted by respective bosses John Wren and Maurice Levy last summer,…
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CEO Nadal sells down MDC Partners stake – which may attract attention from the odd lurking predator
Advertising is a high wire act (as Wieden+Kennedy in Portland is currently re-discovering) and there’s no more spectacular trapeze artist…
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Wieden + Kennedy HQ cuts back after client losses
Wieden+Kennedy is lauded by most for its estimable record of creative independence over more than 30 years but when bad…
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Paul Simons: are top managers and the City finally waking up to the reality of ‘brand damage?’
Is ‘Brand Damage’ a consideration for the City? A financial journalist in the business press last weekend referred to ‘brand…
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Dixons/Carphone £3.7bn merger means changes ahead
Mergers of equals are rather out of fashion at the moment following the Omnicom/Publicis fiasco but that hasn’t stopped Dixons…
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De Groose takes new top job at Dentsu/Aegis UK
Dentsu/Aegis is on a roll (it recently won Microsoft’s $2bn media business) and the Aegis bit (bought by Dentsu for…
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