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Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley has finally trousered a department store chain after years of trying, buying House of Fraser from the administrators for £90m. This includes 59 stores (and all stock) and, potentially, 15,000 or so employees including concessions. Ashley ...

McDonald’s revealed in October that it was shifting from a single global media agency to a small roster of preferred local suppliers. This was never going to be good news for Omnicom’s OMD, which has held the business exclusively for ...

Once it was the future. Now, apparently, crowdsourcing has had its day. Havas has shut down its Colorado-based crowdsourcing agency Victors & Spoils, which it bought in 2012 under the leadership of then-CEO, David Jones. At the time of the ...

Dentsu Inc has reported strong results for 2018 so far, with organic revenue growth of 4.5 per cent across the first half of the year and 4.9 per cent in the second quarter. The Japan-based holding company’s numbers are boosted ...

Mars, which had previously cut and sliced its media across the world, has consolidated everything into WPP’s MediaCom, the biggest win so far for the new regime headed by Mark Read at WPP. Mars is reported to spend $1.8bn (£1.4bn) ...

It might seem like Ikea and its products are everywhere, but until today, India has had to manage without Swedish flatpack furniture. The concept is so new, in fact, that Ikea has hired an in-house team to assemble furniture for ...

Simon Dent is the founder of Dark Horses, the sports marketing agency backed by UK creative agency Lucky Generals. Dark Horses’ clients include Nissan, Wiggle, Just Eat, Peloton and Southampton FC. With the Premiership starting tomorrow (August 10) chief coaching ...

Funny or not? California fast food chain Jack in the Box is plugging its teriyaki bowls with Jack himself inviting female staff to “feel his bowls.” A straight red card in the #MeToo era surely? Things pick up when the ...

AMV BBDO is back with the latest in its series for Tena Men incontinence kit, featuring one Stirling Gravitas, a Trump-like figure in his all-encompassing self knowledge. When this started a few years ago maybe it was trying a bit ...