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By Stuart Smith on October 3, 2012
What now for upwardly mobile executive Tamara Minick-Scokalo? I ask because her immediate boss, John Fallon, has just emerged as the future chief executive of Pearson, owner of – among other things – the Financial Times and Penguin. When last encountered here, Minick-Scokalo – for most of her career a Procter & Gamble executive, but [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged education, financial times, john Fallon, Marjorie Scardino, Pearson, Rona Fairhead, Tamara Minick-Scokalo
By Angie Dean on June 6, 2012
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has taken his war of words with rebellious shareholders over a 30% pay increase to the pages of the Financial Times. The crux of his robust defence is twofold. First, he is being rewarded for success not, like the managers of many British companies, failure. WPP reported pre-tax profits [...]
Posted in News | Tagged CBS, Compensation dispute, financial times, ftse 100, iss, Sir Martin Sorrell, time warner, viacom, WPP
By Stuart Smith on February 23, 2012
The career of high-flying international executive Tamara Minick-Scokalo has been an interesting passage. So it might be of interest to note that she has just landed another top job. Pearson, owner among other things of the Financial Times and Penguin, has picked her as president Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean of its education [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged cadbury, education market, ej gallo, elizabeth arden, financial times, john Fallon, Kraft, marketing skills, Pearson, penguin books, procter & gamble, Stuart Smith, Tamara Minick-Scokalo, trax consultancy, zurich
By Stephen Foster on November 16, 2011
Bartle Bogle Hegarty likes to talk about modern advertising as ‘Super Bowl meets social media,’ making big impact commercials that run a few times before big paid-for audiences before they reach millions more on YouTube and pick up thousands more Facebook fans. Its work for Yeo Valley, a collection of organic dairy producers in the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Adam Freeman, agency review, bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, economist, financial times, Jason Gonsalves, newspapers, north somerset, rapping farmers, rkcr/y&r, Sir John Hegarty, Sun, the churned forever, the guardian, wieden+kennedy london, yeo valley
By Stephen Foster on November 15, 2011
The Financial Times has had a good credit crunch war and seems to be in shape for the next one, as world economies stand on the edge of a cliff and decide not to take a sensible step backwards. This new ad from DDB London turns the Eurozone’s problems to the FT’s advantage (which must [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged boase massimi pollitt, ddb london, ducks in a row ad campaign, financial times, online, Rupert Murdoch, volkswagen, Wall Street Journal
By Staff on September 19, 2011
We all knew Alexander Lebedev, owner of the London Evening Standard, the Independent and its cut-down stablemate i used to be a KGB spy at the embassy in London but he told us he was just the economic attache who spent all day reading the Financial Times to pick up tips. Not sure we believe [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alexander Lebedev, economic attache, financial times, i, Independent, london evening standard, russian embassy, russian talk show, Sergei Polonsky, Vladimir Putin
By Stephen Foster on July 13, 2011
Which might take some of the heat off Rupert Murdoch, facing blanket condemnation in the UK Parliament and demands that he drop News Corporation’s bid for BSkyB, except that the only new paper to be outed so far is the Sunday Times, also owned by News Corp’s News International. The Sunday Times, which lodges at [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Chase Carey, competition commission, daily mirror, financial times, Gordon Brown, guardian, Joanthan Rees, news corporation, News International, news of the world, parliamentary vote, phone hacking, Piers Morgan, Rupert Murdoch, southern investigations, Sunday Times
By Stephen Foster on June 24, 2011
We all know that UK newspapers are taking a beating from online in the battle for advertising despite all the money they have spent boosting their own digital products. But the stark truth is laid bare in the following article by the Financial Times’ chief media correspondent Ben Fenton, who’s been doing his homework with [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Alexander Lebedev, associated newspapers, Ben Fenton, daily mail, Daily Telegraph, Douglas McCabe, enders analysis, financial times, guardian, london evening standard, metro, online revenues, paywalls, sliding circulations, Sun, Times, tv advertising, uk newspapers
By Stephen Foster on June 13, 2011
It does if they’re represented in what Unilever CEO Paul Polman calls “white space” anyway, markets across the world where some Unilever brands are unavailable. Polman has told the Financial Times that he believes Unilever, now in a hotly contested five-horse race with Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Kraft and Reckitt Benckiser among the world’s consumer [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged advertising, brands, financial times, growth, Kraft, Nestle, new markets, Paul Polman, procter & gamble, Reckitt-Benckiser, unilever, white space
By Staff on May 23, 2011
Neal Mohan, Google vice-president for display advertising products, has told the Financial Times that automated ‘real-time bidding’ will boost global online display advertising from its current $24bn to $200bn in a few years’ time. Key to this will be online trading exchanges like Google’s own DoubleClick which has seen the volume of ads traded triple [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged doubleclick, facebook, financial times, google, Like button, Neil Mohan, online ad exchanges, online display advertising
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