By Staff on December 20, 2012
There aren’t too many Western media companies that would fetch $3.7bn at the moment, unlike China’s Focus Media which operates advertising screens in offices and retailers in China and the region. Focus, a listed company, has agreed a bid at that level from a number of US private equity companies including Carlyle, Fountainvest, China Everbright, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged advertising screens, China, focus media, Jason Jiang, offices, private equity bid, retailers
By Paul Simons on December 30, 2011
ITV canvassed a panel of 8000 people to vote for their favourite ads of 2011. I felt it was a very interesting reflection on public opinion versus advertising industry opinion. Let’s not forget Mr. Blobby was number one in the music charts some time in the past – a point I will return to. Firstly, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adam & eve, advertisers, animals, bbh, british airways, consumers, cravendale, itv ad of the year, John Lewis, mr blobby, Paul Simons, production values, programme, retailers, viewers' choice, vw darth vader
By Staff on November 25, 2011
After years of lobbying India is finally going to relax its rules on foreign retailers, allowing overseas supermarket giants like Wal-Mart, Carrefour and Tesco to own up to 51 per cent of operations in India and ‘single-brand’ retailers (supermarkets are known as ‘multi-brand retailers) to own 100 per cent of their Indian outlets. The Indian [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Arun Nanda, carrefour, India, Interpublic, mudra, omnicom, ownership, rediffusion, retail market, retailers, Sir Martin Sorrell, supermarkets, Tesco, walmart, WPP
By Stephen Foster on August 2, 2011
Centrica-owned British Gas is, we learn, planning to ‘ramp up‘ its marketing activity to try to counter the unpopularity it’s incurring for raising its gas prices by 18 per cent and electricity prices by 16 per cent despite making £270m profits in the first half of 2011 from domestic consumers. In total Centrica made £1.26bn [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR | Tagged advertising, big six providers, british gas, centrica, e.on, edf energy, green campaigns, mis-selling, npower, ofgem, PR, price increases, retailers, scottish and southern energy, scottish power, uk energy prices
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