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By Staff on September 3, 2012
One WPP investment that looks to be paying off is Peter Mandelson’s Global Counsel LLP, a limited partnership that aims to help companies expand in new markets. WPP took a minority stake in the business formed by the former business secretary in the Labour government in 2010. The first accounts to surface for Global Counsel [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged global counsel llp, Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 8, 2012
Well the bloke hasn’t had much to cheer him up recently, having lost a million quid bonus and been vilified by politicians of all hues, mostly for their own hypocritical purposes. Why hypocritical? Labour fuelled the City’s bonus culture and the more than rash expansion of the financial sector that made the consequences of the [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged banker bonuses, coalition government, credit crunch, financial sector, Labour, Peter Mandelson, RBS, Stephen Hester, today programme, £38bn lost
By Stephen Foster on November 7, 2011
And Philip Gould (latterly Lord Gould) wasn’t even a particularly famous adman before he was chosen by New Labour presiding genius Peter Mandelson (later Lord…etc, etc) to be the about-to-be-revived party’s opinion pollster (usually focus groups) and sage. Gould died today at 61 of throat cancer and the tributes have been justifiably fulsome. He helped [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR, Research | Tagged boase massimi pollitt, brignull le bas, Caroline Le Bas, Charles Powell, Chris Powell, Colin Goodson, collett dickenson pearce, David Cameron, Gail Rebuck, google, Jack Tinker, John Gilbert, Jonathan Powell, Lord Gould, Margaret Thatcher, Maurice Saatchi, Michael Foot, Neil Godfrey, Peter Mandelson, Philip Gould, philip gould associates, planner, pollster, Rachel Whetstone, random house, saatchi & saatchi, Steve Hilton, Tim Bell, tinker & partners, Tony Blair, Tony Brignull, Tory Party, Trevor Beattie, wasey campbell-ewald
By Stephen Foster on October 19, 2011
The scene was Brighton, England and embattled UK prime minister Gordon Brown had just tried (and mostly failed) to rally his battered troops. Leading Labour politicos at the party conference were no doubt looking forward to a few sustaining snifters at the News International party, News International being the News Corporation-owned company that published the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged blue smoke, bskyb, Charlie Brooks, Clive Goodman, David Cameron, Glenn Mulcaire, Gordon Brown, Gordon Taylor, hubris, James Murdoch, Kelvin MacKenzie, labour party conference, Lachlan Murdoch, Max Clifford, New York Times, news corporation, News International, news of the world, Peter Mandelson, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Brown, september 29 2009, shareholders meeting, Sun, Sunday Times, the times, Tom Watson, Wendi Deng
By Stephen Foster on August 29, 2011
Hunting Lord Mandelson (former Labour minister Peter Mandelson as was) is a traditional British media sport and his Lordship has enlivened the summer silly season once more by making an offer for an £8m house in London, which nobody apart from his bank and, presumably, himself thinks he can afford. Mandelson, of course, has done [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Benjy Wegg-Prosser, chime communications, clenmow hornby inge, downing street, hedge funds, JWT, knightsbridge green, labour minister, Lord Bell, Lord Mandelson, mafair, mail on sunday, oligarchs, Peter Mandelson, Sir Martin Sorrell, world class advisory business, WPP, £8m london house
By Stephen Foster on March 6, 2011
The world (or at least the British part of it) seems to have woken up to the fact that Libya dictator Colonel Gaddafi remains a nasty piece of work despite its strenuous efforts to pretend he wasn’t following his generous decision to renounce ‘weapons of mass destruction’ a few years ago and become mates with [...]
Posted in News, Politics, PR | Tagged BP, brown lloyd james, Colonel Gaddafi, Howell James, london school of economics, Nick Lloyd, Peter Brown, Peter Mandelson, Saif Gaddafi, Sir Howard Davies, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on January 11, 2011
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell isn’t one to fall asleep over the holiday period and, hard on the heels of ditching Doug Checkeris as US CEO of Mediacom after losing the GSK account to PHD, Paul Taaffe, global CEO of WPP-owned PR giant Hill & Knowlton is on his bike. WPP merged Hill & Knowlton [...]
Posted in Agencies, News, Politics, PR | Tagged dewey square, Doug Checkeris, global counsel llp, gsk, Hill & Knowlton, Jack Martin, mediacom, Paul Taaffe, Peter Mandelson, politics to business, public strategies, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 24, 2010
Former FT editor Andrew Gowers must be thinking of packing in this PR lark (it seems to be be giving up on him unfortunately). Gowers joined BP a year as head of media just in time to preside over the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster which also led to the departure of BP CEO Tony Hayward. [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andrew Gowers, Anji Hunter, Bob Dudely, BP, deepwater horizon, Lord Browne, Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair, Tony Hayward
By Stephen Foster on October 22, 2010
1/ The 1990s was the decade that the tide turned for ad agencies and the business is still trying to recover from the reverses it suffered. Advertising, or paid-for promotion as we might call it, is actually booming; the biggest companies in the world including Apple, Microsoft and Google all place advertising at the centre [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, Politics | Tagged apple, five things you didn't know about advertising agencies: 1990s (1), papa and nicole, Peter Mandelson, Philip Gould, Renault, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on October 7, 2010
PR has proved to be something of a vale of tears for former Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers. First he joined Lehman Brothers shortly before the US investment bank imploded in 2008 and then he took up the reins as head of media at BP on the eve of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster [...]
Posted in News, PR | Tagged Andrew Gowers, Anji Hunter, Bob Dudley, BP, David Bickerton, Peter Mandelson, PR Week
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