Finance

Here’s an arithmetical problem for City analysts. Why don’t marketing services group Havas’s splendid Quarter Three figures actually add up properly? First, a bit of background. Agency holding company performance has continued in strong recovery mode, despite the rest of ...

At the moment it’s a losing bet too: with all the big marcoms companies having now posted their third quarter results WPP is lagging the field with organic growth of just 4.9 per cent, thanks in large measure to a ...

Indian ad agency Rediffusion may trade under the full moniker of Rediffusion-Y&R and be 26.7 per cent owned by WPP (Dentsu has 13.3 per cent) but founder and boss Arun Nanda and WPP Sir Martin Sorrell most definitely do not ...

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has hardly seemed to be on the side of the angels recently, still suffering the fall-out from the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Among other things this cost it the long-desired $12bn deal to ...

Omnicom, arguably the strongest performer among the marcoms giants judging by its recent third quarter numbers, is making a big move in India by increasing its ten per cent stake in the Mudra conglomerate to a majority with an option ...

An open letter to Everything Everywhere CEO Olaf Swantee (pictured): ‘Dear Mr Swantee How do these female Telegraph journalists do it? Trap you into saying things you didn’t really mean to say, that is? Not many months ago, coalition government ...

It’s no surprise that Future Publishing’s corporate mantra under just-resigned boss Steve Spring, a former UK MD of Young & Rubicam, was ‘media with passion.’ It looks a bit short on passion this morning and rather heavier on cold number ...

BDO, a network of accountants scattered across the globe, is the fifth largest after the ‘big four’ – KPMG, PWC, Ernst & Young and Deloitte – which dominate the auditing of big global companies and, consequently, the much more lucrative ...

About 80 per cent of non-aligned or independent shareholders do anyway according to this analysis by the BBC’s Robert Peston of votes cast at last Friday’s AGM of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Nearly as many want elder brother Lachlan to ...