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WPP chuffed with Omnicom travails, BBH puts its hopes in Lafferty and BBC’s Today goes girl hunting
***A happy man tonight will be Sir Martin Sorrell, boss of WPP. He’s seen Omnicom slashing jobs at BBDO, after…
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Omnicom slashes jobs at BBDO and Goodby in the wake of big account losses
Omnicom agencies BBDO and Goodby Silverstein have been wielding the axe according to Ad Age, with around ten per cent…
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Centaur Media’s £50m bold bet on digital business Econsultancy backfires disastrously
It’s a dry, spare document. But beneath the dense, printed undergrowth of Centaur Media’s Interim Management Statement 7464E – out…
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Marketing Week publisher Centaur faces exit from print as revenue plummets
When I was at Marketing Week – decades ago – it made a fortune: display advertising flourished on the free…
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Scholl picks LBi for major website revamp
Digital agency LBi has won the assignment to revamp number one footcare company Scholl’s website. LBi, which won the business…
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Why are advertising’s fat cats all blokes?
Actually there is one exception, Havas’s Mercedes Erra (left), a founder of BETC, in Business Insider’s list at 17 of…
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Coke tries to sweeten the pill, BT takes on Sky, Decisive roughs it for Desperados and Billington Cartmell gets mouthy for Wrigley
***There’s been much ado this week about the announcement by Coca-Cola boss Muhtar Kent (left) that it’s going to put…
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What is WPP up to with Gramercy Park? Not that one, its new ‘post-conceptualisation’ ads studio?
WPP has a pricey apartment in a Gramercy Park, New York development, which has provided a few laughs for my…
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Can new manager David Moyes nurture the £3bn Manchester United ‘brand’
We put brand in inverted commas because brands and their valuation in football are even more difficult to compute than…
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