Finance

We all get accustomed to the power certain brands can have on society, like the queues snaking around Apple stores when a new product is about to go on sale. However I have found a new and unexpected ripple effect ...

Original founder Charles Saatchi may be in the doghouse (he’s ‘accepted’ a police caution following a widely-publicised public row with wife Nigella Lawson) but younger brother Maurice, CEO David Kershaw (left), Bill Muirhead and Jeremy Sinclair are all doing very ...

Comings and goings at 83 per cent state-owned UK bank RBS don’t usually engage our attention but UK chancellor George Osborne’s apparent decision to get rid of RBS CEO Stephen Hester (left) should. Because RBS remains a huge bank, despite ...

Sir Martin Sorrell stirred up some controversy in adland recently by suggesting media has become the lead discipline over creativity (and by implication account management). It seems to me a number of arguments on both sides of the debate are ...

P&G and Mondelez are adjusting their payment cycle. And it’s all my fault. From now on if you are a Mondelez agency you will do your work and wait four months to be paid. If you want a laugh, read ...

It looks as though WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) is set to trouser the £17.6m the company decided he was worth last year as shareholders at this year’s AGM (set for Wednesday) will vote fairly narrowly in favour. But ...

Mega-booze company Diageo is reviewing Smirnoff vodka out of JWT after years at the WPP-owned shop, the last thing JWT needs after Mondelez International (the Attila the Hun of the international marketing fraternity) abruptly wrenched Halls cough sweets (and candies, ...

Havas chairman Vincent Bollore is planning to promote elder son Yannick (left) to replace him when he steps down later this year. He has also promoted younger son Cyrille to be his deputy at family-owned Bollore Group, which holds the ...

The issue of client payment terms for agencies rumbles on with some agencies, according to Campaign, demanding that the UK government intervene. We might politely remind these optimistic souls that governments of all hues have been loudly proclaiming their commitment ...