Finance

It doesn’t seem that long ago that new business pitches were prepared the night before, often by dragging a reluctant creative team out of the pub. There would, of course, be a big research document but the hope (and often ...

Last year WPP set up Tenth Avenue, a new outdoor holding company. This all seemed a bit unnecessary as WPP already had out of home giant Kinetic but Sir Martin Sorrell’s marcoms company has revealed more of its schemes with ...

Thomas Cook, the venerable UK travel agent (now majority-owned by a German outfit) has been a veritable disaster zone recently, losing nearly £400m last year and sacking long-serving CEP Manny Fontenia-Novoa. It’s now kept afloat by its bank lenders and ...

A News International spokesman tells us Sun editor Dominic Mohan is “not resigning” in the wake of five more high-profile arrests of his senior colleagues. Well, thank goodness for that. Someone has to be there to switch off the lights, ...

Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy says digital revenues will account for more than half the group’s US income this year (up from 46.4 per cent in 2011). In the world as a whole digital accounted for 30.6 of PG’s revenues ...

As one of many changes under new CEO Rakesh Kapoor (pictured) who’s also shifting control of the more mature European and North American businesses to a new HQ in Amsterdam, cutting back on traditional advertising in favour of digital and ...

Let’s try to look at this logically. Football is a big business in the UK (BSkyB’s humungous profits depend on it, almost entirely). We have a very expensive Premier League of high-performing clubs, some of whose players are English. The ...

Well the bloke hasn’t had much to cheer him up recently, having lost a million quid bonus and been vilified by politicians of all hues, mostly for their own hypocritical purposes. Why hypocritical? Labour fuelled the City’s bonus culture and ...

They’re not the only reason of course but, as a new survey points out that it’s even grimmer on the British High Street up north, it’s interesting to note that the latest three chains to collapse and leave more empty ...