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By Stephen Foster on January 23, 2013
Rupert Howell (left), a founder of the HHCL agency, boss of McCann in London and former client sales supremo at ITV, is set to be the CEO of the People tabloid newspaper if Journalist Sue Douglas’s consortium succeeds in raising the £10m required to buy it from Trinity Mirror. Howell has been winding down his [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged buyout deal, hhcl, itv, mccann, Rupert Howell, sue Douglas, the news of the world, the people, the sun, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on January 14, 2013
**Long-suffering music business HMV has finally toppled into administration as suppliers have refused more credit. It’s all about downloads of course, there aren’t enough old farts (like me) hunting around for CDs. The move follows hard on the heels of the Virgin music business in France going down the tubes (Sir Richard got out years [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Carolyn McCall, downloads, easyJet, hmv, margate, Rupert Howell, Simon Fox, sue Douglas, the ambrette, the people, vccp
By Stephen Foster on October 17, 2012
Only as non-exec chairman mind but no doubt Howell’s contacts book and boundless optimism (Howell was a founder of HHCL, marketing boss of ITV and head of McCann in the UK) will prove useful to Billington Cartmell Group’s new owners Hutton Collins Partners. Matthew Hooper who founded and sold Interfocus to Omnicom, also joins as [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged billington cartmell group, hutton collins, Ian Billington, John Gellett, Matthew Hooper, Paul Cartmell, Rupert Howell
By Stephen Foster on August 17, 2012
A couple of days ago we reported on the plan by former adman Rupert Howell and journalist Sue Douglas to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Star Sunday, a move that seemed odd in the extreme as newspapers are hardly booming in the UK (or likely to). But, under Desmond’s ruthless cost management, the DSS does actually [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged channel 5, credit suisse, daily star sunday, derivatives investment, richard desmond, Rupert Howell, sue Douglas
By Stephen Foster on August 15, 2012
Sue Douglas, who used to be a big noise at the Sunday Times and then at Conde Nast, and Rupert Howell (left), one of the H’s in HHCL and then the boss of McCann Europe and the chief salesman at ITV, are supposed to be talking to Northern & Shell owner Richard Desmond about buying [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged channel 5, daily star sunday, richard desmond, Rupert Howell, Rupert Murdoch, sue Douglas
By Stephen Foster on May 24, 2012
John Lewis agency Adam & Eve, bought for £60m by Omnicom yesterday, seems to have executed a reverse takeover of flagging DDB London as the Adam & Eve-ites have emerged firmly on top in the merged agency’s management. The three A&E founders James Murphy (pictured), David Golding and Ben Priest becomes CEO, CSO and executive [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged adam & eve, Ben Priest, David Golding, ddb london, integrated agency, john Banks, John Wren, merger, omincom, rainey Kelly, reverse takeover, rkcr/y&r, Rupert Howell, Stephen Woodford, Tom Roberts, virgin media, WPP, y&r, £60m
By Staff on April 16, 2012
This is the second extract adapted from Paul Simons’ book Day 1 to Day 2555 (or 7 years in the life of an advertising agency). Here Paul explains how he went about choosing the right team to start successful London agency Simons Palmer Denton Clenmow and Johnson which merged with TBWA seven years later. I’ve [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged anomaly, Carl Johnson, Chris Palmer, day one to day 2555 (7 years in the life of an advertising agency), ggt, hhcl, Mark Denton, money, new business, Paul Simons, profile, Rupert Howell, Simon Clenmow, simons palmer denton clenmow and johnson, Sir John Hegarty, tbwa, team, two suits
By Stephen Foster on July 7, 2011
Taiwan-based mobile handset giant HTC is reported by Campaign to be holding a pitch for the launch of another new phone despite only appointing McCann London to handle its £35m account in February this year. The company is currently running a campaign by Amp London, a relative minnow compared to the likes of McCann. The [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged amp london, everything everywhere, hhcl, htc, Interpublic, launch pitch, Linus Karlsson, mad men, madison avenue, mccan london, mccann, Nick Brien, Phil Roberson, Rupert Howell
By Stephen Foster on June 22, 2011
Fru Hazlitt and Simon Daglish have completed their revamp of UK terrestrial broadcaster ITV’s sales, losing a few people and gaining some. In so doing it seems to have concocted a dish of verbal linguine, a dish it’s easy to spill down your front if taken with meat sauce. Top promotion in the final (latest?) [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, boss strategic engagement director, deputy strategic engagement director, director of multiplatforms and partnerships itv, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, itv, itv sales revamp, job descriptions, managing director of commercial and online, new apps, Ross Faulkner, Rupert Howell, Simon Daglish, verbal linguine
By Stephen Foster on April 6, 2011
Although he claims he’s an old fart and nobody’s interested in him any more, Lord Bell (Tim Bell as was in his Saatchi days) isn’t and people are. Now in his 70th year and recovering from a recent heart bypass his Lordship recently entered the public lists to complain about criticism he received over his [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics, PR | Tagged bahrain, Bell Pottinger, chime, Danny Rogers, easyJet, hhcl, icon, Lord Bell, Margaret Thatcher, Mark smith, meerkats campaign, morethanfreeman, PR Week, Rupert Howell, saatchi & saatchi, sfw, sports marketing, Tim Bell, vccp, WPP
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