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‘The Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Night-Time’ is a highly successful novel and a play by Mark Haddon, dealing, among other things, with Asperger’s Syndrome and autism. But the expression comes from a Sherlock Holmes story, ‘Silver Blaze,’ ...

It’s been, in his own words, an “annus horribilis” for Maurice Levy and Publicis Groupe in 2014 – the collapse of the merger with Omnicom, poor trading and a sceptical market reaction to his latest wheeze, paying $3.7bn for digital ...

Today’s consumer is more switched on than ever – both savvy in terms of products and pricing and also quite literally connected throughout the shopping experience to a wealth of digital information readily available via their smartphone. During a recession ...

By Gordon Montgomery And so the Five Kingdoms of the advertising world continue their battle for supremacy. Still showing little sign of desiring to give up power, the ageing kings, Martin Sorrell of House WPP, John Wren of House Omnicom, ...

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has a new boss – private equity magnate Roberto Quarta, who’s also chairman of medical technology company Smith & Nephew and engineer IMI. Quarta (below), an Italian-American and a partner in private equity firm Clayton Dubilier ...

It’s been a turbulent few years for Canadian marcoms company Cossette’s UK businesses ever since the disastrous merger of digital agency Dare and well-regarded creative agency MCBD in 2010. MCBD was absorbed into Dare – a classic case of two ...

It looks like 2015 is going to be another eventful and disruptive year. But then, perhaps we should be used to that by now. After all, the marcoms sector has already seen a plethora of new technologies, strategies and approaches ...

It’s difficult to overestimate the impact the revelations about Tesco’s ‘profits’ – or lack of them – are having on wider business in the UK. The grocer’s past booking of vast profits – if its current profit warning is any ...

Money continues to cascade out of Tesco, which has just announced that this year’s trading profit will be £1bn less (that’s one billion) than it and analysts thought. They were expecting £2.4bn. We say ‘cascade’ because the word makes an ...