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Why Aberdeen Asset Management is the Intel of global financial services
What’s the biggest, most successful, company you’ve never heard of? Impossible to say, of course. But a good candidate would…
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WPP’s Sorrell places his bets on new media – and it’s Google’s YouTube not Facebook or Twitter
The most interesting thing about WPP Group’s first quarter financial results were not the numbers, but its chief executive’s obiter…
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Will new Brit at McCann NY (Chris Macdonald) be more successful than the last one (Nick Brien)?
Having, a while back, complimented Chris Macdonald on the improved quality of his tailoring, it would be churlish not to…
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Why the future looks good for old admen – if you don’t get turned out to grass aged 50
Whoever said advertising was a young person’s business? The conventional wisdom is that at 40, most ad executives would be…
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Out of the COI frying pan into the fire of a fashion launch for brand marketer Chris Wood
For years, you’ve run your own brand consultancy. After successfully selling it, you step into the limelight as chairman of…
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Can former Publicis boss Richard Pinder’s new company be a new model for global advertisers?
After years of being a jet-setting senior suit in someone else’s service, Richard Pinder has decided to go global on…
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Team WPP’s Ford blunder reveals the perils of living in a creative bubble
What could be more timely than demonstrating the little car’s exceptional cargo-carrying capacity than three nubile women, one scantily clad,…
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UK newspapers set to spoil politicians’ Leveson deal
Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! they chortled in their joy! The political class seems intoxicated with having finally, excruciatingly, achieved…
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Top Pepsi Nascar viral isn’t ace driver Jeff Gordon and may not be Pepsi either
There’s a rather thrilling viral doing the rounds that features top NASCAR (US stock car) racer Jeff Gordon giving a…
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