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UK poster boys panic over expensive Olympics sites

UK poster boys panic over expensive Olympics sites

By Staff on March 27, 2012

The imminent London Olympics were supposed to produce a boom time for the whole media sector: from the mighty WPP which anticipated heavy client spending down to the UK’s poster contractors and agencies (one of which, Kinetic, is owned by WPP). All those anticipated visitors would surely persuade advertisers to uncork their wallets. They still [...]

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World's biggest poster company JC Decaux gets ready to pounce on rival CBS Outdoor

World’s biggest poster company JC Decaux gets ready to pounce on rival CBS Outdoor

By Staff on March 10, 2011

French-based JC Decaux has recently become the world’s biggest poster media owner and it’s now saying publicly that it fancies buying CBS Outdoor, one of its biggest global rivals but now, apparently, no longer regarded as a ‘core business by CBS CEO Leslie Moonves. Decaux, which more or less invented ‘street furniture’, bus shelters with [...]

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Can Decaux and Primesight buck the curse of Network Rail?

By David O'Reilly on May 19, 2010

Executives at JC Decaux and Primesight will be looking nervously at their corporate bank balances today as they digest the news that they are to share the £260 million Network Rail outdoor advertising contract. Normally, this would be a cause of great rejoicing but the whole outdoor industry knows that overbidding for the Network Rail [...]

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