Finance

DDB London has just been taken over (in management terms) by hot London indie Adam & Eve in a £60m deal. It’s to be hoped the new managers manage to hang on to at least some of DDB’s creatives (they ...

Should we feel sad or glad for them? Viewed one way, Adam & Eve has just paid itself an awful lot of money to acquire a decent car account, Volkswagen. Looked at in another, what is arguably the UK’s most ...

John Lewis agency Adam & Eve, bought for £60m by Omnicom yesterday, seems to have executed a reverse takeover of flagging DDB London as the Adam & Eve-ites have emerged firmly on top in the merged agency’s management. The three ...

Kraft shareholders have agreed to buy the name Mondelez for the about-to-be spun off snacks business, incorporating the likes of Cadbury and Oreos among other brands. Here’s the logo (home-produced like the name?), complete with fiddly bits around the edges, ...

It’s all rather depressing really, a new agency comes on the scene, scores highly (in this case with one account) and then sells out at the top of what might be a very short market. But that’s what seems to ...

According to the business press, Wall Street is full of recriminations over the Facebook IPO. Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter, allegedly ignored downward revisions of forecasts from its own analysts during the roadshow pre-IPO. The top securities regulator in Massachusetts ...

We’ve wondered before here whether adland is a white boy’s club and it certainly seems to be in its upper echelons according to Business Insider’s list of the best-paid 33. But, rather surprisingly, it’s the bean counters who are high ...

Yellow Pages owner Yell has just changed its name to hibu, to the corporate fanfare of a £1.4bn annual loss. If you want to draw attention to the fact that you are a loser, this is the way to do ...

I hate to offer a view that is counter to what many people clearly believe but I have been trying (and failing) to understand the metrics behind the Facebook IPO. So I’ll lead with my chin. The IPO offer price ...