Finance

At the start of February Publicis coughed up £25m or so for the quarter of media agency Blue 449 that it didn’t own. The lucky beneficiary was M&C Saatchi which had sold most of what was Walker Media to Publicis ...

Three former Adelphoi Music execs – Max De Lucia, Greg Moore and Sascha Darroch-Davies – have left to join former FRUKT MD Jeremy Patterson in a new London-based international “sonic branding” agency, DLMDD. DLMDD says it will “bring brands together ...

For the past three years, the media and marketing industry has at last taken some bold and confident steps on the journey towards transparency. The increasingly complex media landscape – particularly the sometimes byzantine digital media trading ecosystem, with multiple ...

TBWA London and its sister shop in New York have won the global launch of Refinitiv, the new fintech company formed by a $20 million deal between Thomson Reuters and private equity fund Blackstone. Refinitiv’s launch campaign centres around the ...

In the end everybody gets something wrong and Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway – the world’s most successful investor – looks as though his nemesis (although the overall business remains healthy) was the merger of Kraft and Heinz, in partnership ...

WPP’s share price recovered this morning – up 7.6 per cent in early trading – as CEO Mark Read revealed its 2018 numbers: not as bad as many feared but still showing a fall in net sales (WPP’s measure of ...

WPP reports its full year 2018 figures tomorrow (March 1) with most analysts expecting a small reverse in growth compared to 2017 although not as bad as its disappointing Q3 2018 figures indicated. Which will leave us with the two ...

A British agency trying to invade New York reminds you of one of those old British wartime films: the general shaking the plucky volunteers by the hand before they’re pushed out of the plane and he returns to the comforts ...

Christophe Guilluy’s recently published English-language version of “Twilight of the Elites” focuses on nascent tensions between France’s metropolitan ruling class and the disenfranchised people who live in the countryside outside of France’s “citadels” of power and economic influence. Originally published ...