By Stephen Foster on May 31, 2012
Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy told his company’s AGM that he was confident that Publicis Groupe would continue to outperform the market in the second half of 2012 despite the financial carnage in the Eurozone (with Spain now heading for the knacker’s yard) and clients trimming budgets accordingly. He also produced this interesting take on [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged ayyer, bcom3, bloomberg, dentsu, digitas, founder, havas, Interpublic, leo burnett, m&c saatchi, macmanus, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, Maurice Levy, omnicom, publicis groupe, razorfish, saatchi & saatchi, shareholder returns, starcom, vivaki, WPP
By Stuart Smith on December 19, 2011
Burkina Faso? No, wait, it’s on the tip of my tongue – know that name, it’s been in the news hasn’t it? – Tunisian singer or something … Wrong. It’s a small, landlocked country, dirt-poor, situated in the Upper Volta region of West Africa. And the only reason it has been in the news recently [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged $1 a day, bloomberg, burkina faso, Cam simpson, child labour, costco, dirty gold, fairtrade programme, limited brands, macys, nike, rapp, Tom Mackendrick, victoria's secret
By Angie Dean on August 15, 2011
Bloomberg and its magazine acquisition Business Week have produced their list of America’s most popular brands, based on commercial growth or a surge in popularity (or both) over the past year. • Actress: Sandra Bullock • Athlete (Female): Serena Williams • Athlete (Male): Peyton Manning (NFL quarterback) • Beverage (Beer): Bud Light • Beverage (Soda): [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged bloomberg, bridgewater, business week, coca-cola, happening brands, nba, Peyton Manning, Sandra Bullock, Serena Williams, stouffers chicken parmesan, Tide, Wall Street Journal
By Angie Dean on January 11, 2011
And so does FriendFinder Network, owner of Penthouse which actually offered slightly more than Hugh Hefner’s $207m for the listed publisher. But Hefner, who is 84 and founded the magazine in December 1953, owned a blocking stake in the company. Sales of the iconic men’s magazine are dropping through the floor but CEO Scott Flanders, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Barry Diller, bloomberg, business week, daily beast, friendfinder network, Hugh Hefner, magazines, newsweek, penthouse, playboy, Scott Flanders, Sidney Harman, Tina Brown
By Stephen Foster on November 1, 2010
Michael Bloomberg’s eponymous terminals and information company has long been in a battle against Reuters (now the product of a 2007 merger between Reuters and Thomson Financial) in the financial markets desktop terminals business. Standalone information has been a second string but now Bloomberg, which recently bought Business Week from McGraw-Hill for a bargain basement [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bloomberg, business week, financial times, Michael Bloomberg, reuters, Wall Street Journal
By Angie Dean on October 14, 2010
The all-conquering Google (it’s currently investigating the market for driverless cars and funding a wind farm off the East Coast of the USA among other ventures) has suffered a blow to one of its more mundane activities, selling unsold (by NBC) airtime on some of NBC Universal’s smaller cable channels. Google had a deal to [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bloomberg, cable ad sales, directv, google, nbc universal
By Stephen Foster on August 3, 2010
It’s probably a bit of both for 91-year old hi-fi tycoon Sidney Harman, the new owner, and just as much for his 65-year old wife US Democrat congresswoman Jane. The $1 Harman has paid the Washington Post for the struggling news weekly comes with strings of course, the magazine has run up debts (unspecified in [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bloomberg, business week, Jane Harman, newsweek, Sidney Harman, washington post
By Staff on June 1, 2010
Time was when all you needed to do was put Week behind your subject matter and readers and advertisers would beat a path to your door. But now the Washington Post company is trying to find a buyer for its 50-year old title Newsweek hard on the heels of McGraw-Hill selling Business Week (once the [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bloomberg, newsweek, time, tv guide, washington -ost
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