Finance

Sorry about al the initials… Once we had agency networks, now, it seems, we have ‘stacks.’ MDC Partners’ KBS Group, now headed by former JWT London and Havas boss Guy Hayward, has bought Canadian CRM agency Kenna to add to ...

Those sleuths at Ad Age (Alexandra Bruell to be precise) have discovered the existence of a strange entity within Havas – HM Alliance based in Spain – which bills media owners a fee based on the amount of business Havas ...

I see that adam&eveDDB has won the account/project to plug Lloyds Bank’s 250th anniversary (so that’ll be more black horses then). Last time adam&eve (then without the DDB) was approached by Lloyds it caused all sorts of grief, then over ...

As usual at WPP’s AGM CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s pay grabbed the headlines (last year it was £43m) with 19.4 per cent per cent of shareholders voting against his humungous pay package, 77.6 per cent evidently thinking it good value ...

I see from Mail Online that WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell attended the recent Fifa Congress that saw the re-election and then resignation of Sepp Blatter (along with the arrest of numerous Blatter acolytes). Sorrell had offered to help Blatter ...

Quoted UK marcoms company Creston has taken a 27 per cent stake in Londov creative agency 18 Feet & Rising, paying £1m of which half is earmarked to invest in the business. Creston, which has latterly concentrated on digital and ...

I’ve jotted down a few thoughts and observations over the past few weeks about the three Ps: poetry, pitches and payment. Copywriters seem to have discovered poetry, or at least a few lines of it. The Independent’s ‘Litany’ TVC (below) ...

Our spies tell us that BBH’s surprising investment in premises in Welwyn Garden City (for non-UK readers, hardly the centre of UK adland – indeed anything) has paid off, with the award of new client Tesco’s massive production business. This ...

I hear that media auditor Ebiquity, helmed by GGT founder Mike Greenlees and former MGM media agency boss Nick Manning, has fallen out big time with WPP. M’learned friends (lawyers) are being consulted, it seems. The row relates, in part, ...