Finance

There’s something relentless about VCCP and it’s just snaffled yet another account: Pret A Manger’s global “omnichannel” business. Omnichannel meaning the coffee/sandwich shop’s move into areas like takeaways and a new coffee app, global meaning nascent businesses in France and ...

Dentsu, the world’s fifth biggest ad holding company after WPP, Omnicom, Publicis and Interpublic, has sold its iconic tear-shaped HQ building in Tokyo for an estimated $3bn. The deal is expected to add $800m to Dentsu’s profits but analysts and ...

Is it any better to discriminate against “straight white men” than people of other genders and ethnicities? Positive discrimination may be one way of levelling a playing field but not, surely, when it means people losing their jobs. But that’s ...

I see that Dentsu International, currently being reorganised and simplified (we’re told) by new boss Wendy Clark has appointed a global chief product officer of media, one Doug Ray (below, who started as an ad agency planner.) Doug is responsible ...

As readers in the UK try to locate their post-match befuddled brains, and those in Denmark rue a dodgy penalty, here’s something to exercise the grey matter. Publicis Media’s Starcom has launched the industry’s first “media booking bot” – Abacus. ...

Looks like back to the office is going to be back to a battleground, at least as far as many women in the ad business and their bosses/alleged persecutors are concerned. Zoe Scaman (above) of strategy business Bodacious (bold and ...

London agency BMB has won Fullgreen, one of the new, seemingly endless wave of alternative food companies – this plant-based contender specialising in cauliflower rice. Fullgreen was founded by Gem Misa and husband Jamie Harris, who were looking for easy ...

In the pandemic (Boris is about to tell us it’s back to normal – let’s hope he’s right) McDonald’s UK stuck to gritty, would-be realistic stories about the small things in life. To some effect, Burger King wins the global ...

Healthcare used to be one of those things that agencies did – but no-one wanted to talk about it much (although the money was reportedly good) or work on it. But, as the world tiptoes out of the pandemic, healthcare ...