By Paul Simons on January 12, 2012
Last week I saw an economic forecast from Citibank which was quite depressing. The gloom and doom in the general business press strongly suggests 2012 is going to be challenging. Therefore in the current climate I have assumed every business in the wider advertising world would be on red alert for any new business opportunity. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, PR | Tagged agency pitches, agency websites, allen brady & marsh, big networks, british rail, citibank, evening standard, Paul Simons, Playstation, £5m account
By Stephen Foster on April 27, 2011
CBS Outdoor has said it will sue Transport for London (TfL) over its contract to supply London’s Underground system with posters in an apparent attempt to claw back the oodles of cash it’s lost since ‘winning’ the contract in 2006. CBS has indeed plastered some high profile bits of the underground, like Oxford Circus, with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, Andrew Marr, BBC, british rail, cbs outdoor, JC Decaux, kinetic, legal action, london tube, maiden, poster contract, posterscope, titan outdoor, transport for london, WPP
By Stephen Foster on June 24, 2010
CBS Outdoor, one of the big American firms that moved into the cosy UK outdoor market thinking it could sell posters like television, is struggling with payments to London Underground amounting to £71.5m a year with revenue just £71m a year. That’s without paying staff, overheads, commission and a sub to the holding company back [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged british rail, cbs outdoor, JC Decaux, london underground, maiden, pearl & dean, posters, titan
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