Finance
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Premier Foods doesn’t want a £40,000 ‘investment’ payment from its media agency – it wants £300,000
Last week we asked which UK media agency would bite the bullet and pitch for Premier Foods’ account, resigned by…
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Wieden+Kennedy makes surprise appearance as a media agency with TurboTax win from Initiative
IPG-owned Initiative Media is used to losing business sometimes – like many agency-owned media shops its fortunes rise and fall…
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Desmond puts the boot into old chum Sorrell over GroupM’s TV buying power
If there’s one thing stranger than Channel 5 and Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond (‘Dirty Dickie’ to his enemies because…
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Starcom MediaVest tells Premier Foods where to stuff its agency “investment” fee
In one of agency land’s rare outbreaks of principle Publicis Groupe-owned media agency Starcom MediaVest has shown Premier Foods the…
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WPP’s Sorrell minds the pennies with stake in India’s Pennywise – but don’t rule out a bigger deal
Ogilvy & Mather agrees to acquire majority stake in PennyWise, a leading digital technology and production company in India WPP…
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What other brands can learn from the Waitrose effect on the UK’s high streets
A while ago I reported back on the impact Waitrose appears to have on property prices based on searching around…
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New bank TSB launches with local love fest by Joint
The UK finally has a new bank, the cornerstone of the Government’s banking policy, although it’s arrived rather by accident.…
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Twitter raises the ad stakes with Facebook and Google by buying mobile ad company MoPub
Twitter is proving a surprisingly strong competitor in the social media ad world and it’s improved its position somewhat by…
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Michael Lee: did account planning kill advertising?
Michael Lee is a former ECD of Euro RSCG New York, handling Volvo worldwide. Born in England, he spent 20…
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