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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 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 Staff on July 12, 2011
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, an American company, could be investigated by Federal authorities if they decide paying Metropolitan Police officers in London counts as illegally trying to secure business under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Germany’s Daimler AG and the UK’s BAE systems have both been prosecuted in the US using this act. At [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bae systems, bskyb, Chase Carey, competition commission, daimler ag, Faser Brown, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, news corporation, News International, news of the world, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Brown, sue Douglas, the sun on sunday, us authorities, us foreign corrupt practices act
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