Finance
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Martin Sorrell: why I became a convert to Cannes
Here’s another of Adweek’s filmed nuggets from Cannes; this one with now seasoned Riviera boulevardier Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP…
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Disney’s Lone Ranger flop shows that marketing can’t do the heavy lifting for second-rate movies
We don’t usually do movies here but there’s growing evidence that Hollywood (aka the global film industry) is more dependent…
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Will the UK’s IPA Bellwether report on Thursday show that better times are here at last?
The IPA’s ever efficient press office sent me a note yesterday advising me to look out for the latest edition…
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George Parker and the PC revolution: how Xerox gave Steve Jobs the keys to Fort Knox
“There’s an extra heavy vehicular loading situation on the Bay Bridge” droned the voice of the traffic dude floating out…
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Will Publicis Groupe build on its £100m investment in BBH by building a fourth big agency network?
£100m and a second knighthood isn’t a bad return for building up a successful London agency and (not quite so…
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Now WPP creates new agency Plus for Chanel – at least this one should look and smell nice
Here we go again: WPP’s MEC media agency repitched for Chanel recently and the result is…yet another new WPP agency,…
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CHI in the frame to relaunch Vertu luxury phones
Vertu mobile phones are a pretty strange idea. Made by Nokia, the British-based company is now privately owned and still…
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New procurement brooms at Tesco in shock decision to review TAG ad production deal
It’s all change at Tesco these days and now the supermarket giant has decided to review the ad production deal…
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Worrying times for the marcoms giants as growth judders to a halt in Brazil and China
For years now it’s seemed like a one way bet: expand in the BRICS (the emerging markets of China, Brazil,…
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