Finance

Debenhams has departed JWT after eight years and shortlisted Karmarama, Mcgarrybowen, Mother and Mary Portas’ retail specialist Portas. Eight years isn’t a bad run at such a retailer; Debenhams always seems in danger of joining other high street casualties but ...

It’s usually worth noting the latest to emerge from Paris agency Buzzman (typically it’s bonkers) and here’s another for Burger King, launching a promotion that lets you buy a Burger King burger for two euros – only you don’t know ...

Gruppo Campari has appointed a team from WPP agencies – ‘Team Campari’ – to work on its portfolio of over 50 brands including Aperol, Appleton Estate, Campari, SKYY, Wild Turkey and Grand Marnier. The agreement means that Gruppo Campari has ...

There’s plenty to worry about with Donald Trump in the White House. Foreign affairs aside, we keep hearing that the bosses of the big holding companies are in a state of anguish about the failure of the Trump administration to ...

Wieden+Kennedy Portland MD Tom Blessington (MD is still the boss at W+K) is leaving the agency to become a senior marketer at YouTube. He’s being replaced by Karrelle Dixon, latterly in charge of W+K Delhi, Shanghai and Tokyo working out ...

Havas is stuck in the doldrums, along with most of its holding company peers, reporting negative growth in the first half of 2017 of 0.4 per cent. Group revenue was €1,108bn for the first half, an increase of just 1.9 ...

Publicis Groupe has won another significant slice of business from McDonald’s following the appointment of Leo Burnett London to handle its FIFA World Cup sponsorship and new McDelivery service globally. Consultancy Publicis.Sapient has teamed with French-based giant Capgemini to form ...

Will the woes of the big agency holding companies – most spectacularly WPP – open the door to big accounts for their smaller, independent or quasi-independent rivals? Miami-based Carnival Cruises is believed to have appointed Anomaly to handle its $25m ...

Life’s never dull at Crispin Porter+Bogusky, or, indeed, its owner MDC Partners and now the agency, once the highest profile creative shop in the US, is setting out on a new adventure: appointing Forsman & Bodenfors’ long-serving CEO Erik Sollenberg ...