By Staff on April 19, 2013
Here at MAA we value independent agencies like London’s newest newbie Hello People and the likes of Wieden+Kennedy and Droga5. But, in an advertising world dominated by the big marcoms companies and, increasingly private equity investors, selling out is always an option. Over the past 20 years or so Results International has handled the sale [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged agency culture, agency sales, Keith Hunt, marcoms companies, private equity, profits, results international, selling your business, social media
By Stephen Foster on November 18, 2011
WPP will increase its sales by four per cent next year CEO Sir Martin Sorrell says, to just over £10bn. This compares with a sales increase of just over six per cent this year (2011) so hardly joy unconfined but not a disaster either. “A couple of months ago had you said to me what [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Research | Tagged acquisitions, barcelona media conference, gfk, Interpublic, ipsos, kantar, morgan stanley, omnicom, profits, publicis groupe, research, sales, Sir Martin Sorrell, tns, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 14, 2011
First the good news: ITV is slightly ahead of last year’s (good numbers) thanks to ads in programmes like X Factor and Downton Abbey and the strong autumn performance of the Rugby World Cup (which only happens every four years of course). And the UK’s biggest free-to-air broadcaster is being run like a proper company [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, digital sales, downton abbey, facebook, friends reunited, Fru Hazlitt, google, itv, itv.com, myspace, profits, rugby world cup, Simon Daglish, X-Factor, yahoo
By Stephen Foster on October 7, 2011
Life looked a bit grim for Haymarket, publisher of Campaign, Management Today, Brand Republic and What Car? among many others, last year after a pre-tax loss in 2009 of £3.7m. This was only the half of it as the company, now wholly-owned by the Heseltine family, was forced to mortgage its collection of properties around [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged brand republic, campaign, hammersmith hq, haymarket, losses, management today, media week, Michael Heseltine, paywall, profits, Rupert Heseltine, what car
By Stephen Foster on August 12, 2011
Rupert Murdoch isn’t a very happy bunny at the moment although he can console himself with the thought that things could be much worse (they still might be). But what the News Corporation boss probably hates the most is that his decision to close the News of the World in the wake of the phone [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, ipc, mail on sunday, news corporation, news of the world, people, phone hacking scandal, profits, richard desmond, Robert Maxwell, Rupert Murdoch, sales, Sly Bailey, star on sunday, Sun, sunday express, sunday mirror, Sunday Times, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on August 11, 2011
The true cost is the 50 per cent uplift a successful deal to buy all of British pay-TV BSkyB would have contributed to News Corporation’s just-announced annual profits of $2.89bn. BSkyB made £1bn or $1.6bn profit in its last financial year, making the $12bn or so News Corp was prepared to pay for the 61 [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged 20th century fox, avatar, bskyb, Chase Carey, David Cameron, James Murdoch, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, profits, Rupert Murdoch, Sun, the sunday times, the times
By Stephen Foster on June 13, 2011
Not so long ago Richard Desmond, owner of Express Newspapers, OK magazine, numerous digital porn channels and, recently, Channel 5 was boasting that he had so much money that he wanted to buy the Sun from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation for £1bn. Now, it transpires, Desmond’s Northern and Shell empire has tripled its profits – [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged channel 5, Dan Sabbagh, express newspapers, guardian media, news corporation, northern & shell, ok magazine, porn channels, profits, richard desmond, Rupert Murdoch, the sun, the times
By Angie Dean on May 25, 2011
He must be a brave man, new Marks & Spencer CEO Marc Bolland as he hinted that the company may make a further foray into the United States when announcing M&S profits of £780m yesterday. Bolland, formerly CEO of UK supermarket chain Morrisons and before that a top marketer at Heineken, has already committed the [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged brooks brothers, heineken, kings supermarkets, Laura Wade-Gery, m&S, Marc Bolland, marks & spencer, Morrisons, online, profits, united states expansion
By Stephen Foster on February 27, 2011
To put this into context, ITV’s anticipated pre-tax profits of £300m (due to be announced Wednesday) on a revenue of about £2bn nearly all come from the sale of TV spots (up 16 per cent over the course of the year and still booming away) and programme sales from ITV Studios. Digital revenues are expected [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged ad revenue, Adam Crozier, Archie Norman, digital, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, itv, itv studios, profits
By Stephen Foster on August 25, 2010
UK adland seems awash with money at the moment with Chime Communications, the advertising to PR empire ruled by Mrs Thatcher’s favourite adman Lord Bell, turning in half year profits of £12.3m up from £8.9m (itself a good performance in cash-strapped 2009). Chime owns ad agency VCCP of Meerkats fame and PR outfit Bell Pottinger [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Bell Pottinger, chime communications, Lord Bell, profits, vccp, WPP
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