Finance

UK computer games retailer Game Group (which also operates the Gamestation brand) is in trouble, set to lose £18m this year and trying to sell its 600 UK stores in a last-minute bid to rescue the business. Which means more ...

Which isn’t very reassuring for chancellor George Osborne and UK taxpayers who are still hoping to recover the near £60bn spent on bailing out RBS and Lloyds Banking Group at the height of the credit crunch in 2009. That’s the ...

Publicis Groupe and France Telecom’s Orange have advanced their plans to set up a big new tech and new media venture capital fund by teaming up with Iris Capital Management in a deal with sees PG and FT taking a ...

It all seems a long time ago now but, pre-dating the phone hacking scandal’s full glory, the big media story in the UK was News Corporation’s bid to buy the 61 per cent of UK pay-TV operator BSkyB it didn’t ...

Summing up a satisfactory set of annual results, which had seen Chime pre-tax-profits climb 16 per cent, chairman Lord Bell (pictured) concluded: “The group is well positioned for the future with a very positive year ahead for sports marketing in ...

Publicis Groupe COO and China boss Jean-Yves Naouri (pictured) has been uncorking his cheque book again, this time buying two ‘experiential’ marketing agencies King Harvests and Luminous. King Harvest operates in a number of mainland China locations and its 100 ...

Sir Martin Sorrell (pictured), whose WPP marcoms group owns 18 per cent of old colleague Lord Bell’s Chime Communications, says he opposes the plan by Lord Bell and other senior managers including Piers Pottinger, to buy out parts of the ...

Interpublic has bought London-based FRUKT Communications to work alongside its sports and entertainment company Octagon. FRUKT was founded in 2001 and has worked for Coca-Cola, Southern Comfort, Diesel, Nokia and Starwood Hotels among others. It specialises in creating entertainment ideas ...

That’s $321m in cash, in case you were wondering. Amobee is a specialist mobile marketing agency in Redwood California which claims (as do others) to have the best proprietary systems to exploit the forthcoming mobile advertising Gold Rush. Some forecasts ...