Finance

The Daily Telegraph group made £58.9m profit in 2010, 11 per cent up on 2009, nearly 50 per cent if you strip out one-off sales in 2009 of £13m. The surprisingly buoyant figure seems to testify more to cost-cutting than ...

The tidal wave of optimism from media buying and market research group Aegis continues with confident noises about the company’s own growth prospects and, from biggest network Carat, an upward revision in its forecast for global ad growth. And it ...

The business newswires are awash this morning with confident noises from media buying and research group Aegis (which owns Carat, Vizeum and researcher Synovate) after its 2010 revenue rose from £1.35bn to £1.46bn. This led to an underlying profit of ...

Those clients, they become stranger by the day. Campaign reports that giant Canadian brewer Molson Coors is reviewing its flagship Carling account (worth £7m) at UK agency Beattie McGuinness Bungay whilst at the same time awarding the agency Corona Extra ...

Further evidence that the UK economy appeared to going down the tubes apeared to emerge last week as WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell (or his scriptwriter) frightened the horses by saying that the world according to WPP was dividing into ...

David Thomson is the boss of the family-owned Thomson Corporation that owns financial information firm Thomson Reuters and Canada’s Globe and Mail national newspaper. Like his father and grandfather he likes to keep a low profile, but hasn’t he done ...

A senior account man was on the way to an important new business pitch when his car gave up the ghost and stopped. He called the client to be told if he didn’t make the appointed time his agency would ...

UK department store group John Lewis, the big success on the UK high street in recent years, is planning its first major foray abroad by launching its website in 12 European countries in June and 25 others around the world, ...

Euro RSCG boss David Jones has moved even further up the Havas ladder, to the top actually by replacing Fernando Rodes Vila as CEO of the sixth-biggest marcoms company (after Dentsu). Jones’ promotion is well-deserved (under him Euro has thrived ...