Finance

David Jones’ self-styled brandtech group seems set on further acquisitions, announcing a further $60m in funding from investment fund Chrysalis, bringing the total of new money raised to $260m since December. The round values the company at $1.36 billion. You ...

London agency VCCP has won a slice of RB (Reckitt-Benckiser as was) business, joining the household goods giant’s new global “brand experience” roster. VCCP will work on hygiene brands Harpic, Vanish and Finish (the last two do other things too ...

L’Oreal has appointed Publicis Groupe to its media business in China after what Publicis claims was the biggest pitch there in 2020. Inevitably Publicis has produced a new agency model for the business, OneL’Oreal (yes really, maybe it plays better ...

Will electric cars reinvent the wheel? VW’s new electric ID.4 SUV will, according to this new film from Johannes Leonardo. Nothing not to like in this. Will VW shoot itself in the foot as it did with diesel? Should have ...

Is Publicis Groupe up for sale? Seems unlikely but Campaign reckons it’s held talks with private equity – believed to be Luxembourg-based CVC Capital Partners. CVC has fingers in lots of pies, it controlled Formula 1 until 2016 when it ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital has expanded its footprint in China with award-winning Shanghai creative agency Tomorrow. Tomorrow was founded in 2015 by Rogier Bikker and clients now include Burberry, Budweiser, Beyond Meat, Coca Cola, Starbucks, Crocs and Red Bull. Tomorrow ...

“Anything can happen at backgammon.” Political diarist Alan Clarke’s shrug to events beyond all of our control is an apt way to describe any articles on ‘future-wanging’ for 2021. There are simply too many variables outside our control for 2021 ...

Trouble Maker, the new London agency that started life with the global Peroni account, has won Sports Direct’s social and paid social media business. Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct is the UK’s biggest sporting goods retailer. The agency’s remit includes social ...

Macmillan Cancer Support is going into battle – sort of – in a new campaign from AMV BBDO, positioning the charity as “compassionate warrior” prepared to do “whatever it takes.” As Britain’s under-resourced and (arguably) over-managed NHS struggles with the ...