Finance

We know you some of you like a bit of Sir Martin Sorrell – well here’s a lot. Here he is talking about WPP’s strategy (again, but it’s quite interesting) at an IAA Leadership Forum held in London in June. ...

ASOS CEO and co-founder Nick Robertson is stepping down following a torrid time for the once high-flying affordable fashion website, hit by increasing competition online and a warehouse fire last year. These things happens in retail (on and off-line) these ...

Boutique corporate advisory firm Ciesco has produced its summary of the big four holding companies’ first half 2015 results and the outlook for the rest of the year and beyond. While all of them grew in the first half of ...

The mooted return of Rebekah Brooks to head Rupert Murdoch’s British print empire – which now includes The Times, the Sunday Times, the Sun, various book publishing interests and the Sun on Sunday (successor to Brooks’ former fiefdom the News ...

Publicis Groupe’s Starcom, which many commentators thought was destined to be the big loser in the current $20bn+ round of media reviews (including, um, us) has come out fighting, adding the $600m or so merged Kraft Heinz North American account ...

Who says there are no second acts? With the news last week that Rebekah “Medusa Hair” Brooks (left) is returning to the “Wizened of Oz’s” evil empire in a super, super senior position, it just goes to prove that it ...

WPP’s GroupM media company has struck a deal with digital news outfit BuzzFeed to enlist Buzz’s services in creating branded content for clients, in return for an advertising investment of ‘less than $100m.’ By comparison WPP spends about $100m on ...

WPP is continuing its policy of making smaller acquisitions – getting on for 30 or so this year – by buying a majority stake in Australian digital agency Webling Interactive. The stake has been bought on behalf of JWT. Sydney-based ...

WPP’s first half results are pretty much as we forecast yesterday – no crystal ball, alas, just the usual corporate leakage – with billings up five per cent to £23bn, like-for-like revenue up 4.9 per cent (organic growth by another ...