By Stephen Foster on May 18, 2012
For a couple of years at least the UK media markets have been defying gravity, showing reasonable growth (in the circumstances) despite a wider economy that’s stagnant at best. Over the weekend UK PM David Cameron (pictured) will be hobnobbing with the G8 group of industrial nations at Barack Obama’s Camp David weekend place. He [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, bully pulpits, camp david, coalition government, daily mail, David Cameron, deficit reduction, france, Francois Hollande, ft, g8, George Osborne, Greece, leveson inquiry, liberal democrats, Martin Wolf, news corporation, Nick Clegg, Sir Martin Sorrell, slash and burn, Sly Bailey, spain, stagnation, Sun, trinity mirror, uk economy, Vince Cable, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 11, 2012
A while ago we wrote that WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s pay rise from £1m to £1.3m (which will trigger even larger bonuses) would be a ‘walkover,’ – shareholders wouldn’t necessarily be happy but the company was performing well so they’d just have to lump it. But that was before the bosses of UK FTSE [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Andrew Moss, Aviva, barclays, Bob Diamond, dublin agm, Francois Hollande, Jeffrey Rosen, Mark Read, Maurice Levy, pay deal, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, Sly Bailey, succession planning, trinity mirror, WPP, £13m package
By Stephen Foster on April 2, 2012
Maurice Levy, boss of Publicis Groupe and head of the French employers’ organisation among many other things in his native country, isn’t used to being treated like this. But French politicians on both sides of the political divide are busy criticising a long-term bonus plan that is set to pay him $21.6m (€16m) imminently. There’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged $21.3m payout, digitas, Francois Hollande, french election, Interpublic, Maurice Levy, nicolas sarkozy, publicis groupe, razorfish, retirement
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