Finance

All of a sudden running a big supermarket company isn’t as easy as it used to be. Before the financial crisis in the UK (and no doubt elsewhere) all you had to do was build more and bigger stores, screw ...

It started out as a quixotic venture to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Star Sunday, then moved to a mooted £10m bid for Trinity Mirror’s Sunday People (one of those newspapers you’d forgotten had existed). Now it appears that Douglas (left), ...

On the face of it, advertisers can do what they like over payment terms for agencies and other suppliers – work with us on our terms or don’t is the usual (unspoken) message. Which is presumably why Mondelez International thinks ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell ‘gives good conference’ (as they don’t say very often) and he was at it again last week, providing an intriguing soundbite for a talk-fest ‘Beyond Advertising’ at his giant media agency MediaCom. This is what ...

Never did like the look of Mondelez, the new version of the old Kraft snacks business. First it welched on its promises about keeping Cadbury based in the UK when it bought the business for £12bn and now, after a ...

What will Nick Brien do next has been a live topic since he quit as McCann boss last year (or was quitted by IPG CEO Michael Roth) and now old Nick has re-emerged – as a director of and investor ...

One of UK medialand’s best-known execs Nigel Sharrocks is stepping down following the completion of the £3.2bn sale of Aegis Media to Japan’s Dentsu. Sharrocks (left), 56, was CEO of Aegis Media global brands, one of those rather mystifying titles ...

You can gauge the ebullience of equity markets these days from the number of obscure digital media companies with dodgy profit and loss accounts that are confidently seeking an IPO (or listing on the stock exchange as it is more ...

Omnicom-owned TBWW is launching an new outpost of its Being Worldwide network in Shanghai. Being boss Nicholas Bordas (left) says: “Je suis convaincu que sous la direction de Shel, Being Shanghai aura un grand succès auprès des de clients à ...