Finance

Oh to be a fly on the wall at the Four Seasons hotel in Miami (below) where about 100 top execs from Omnicom and Publicis Groupe will convene on October 18 to discuss how they’re going to get on together, ...

Havas CEO David Jones has been chatting to the Daily Telegraph in London and, inter alia, has claimed that the impending $35bn Omnicom/Publicis merger means that “Publicis has been sold to the Americans but nobody has worked it out yet.” ...

Mobile advertising is growing rapidly with many new opportunities for marketers. Simon Francis (left), CEO of integrated marketing consultancy Flock Associates, outlines some of the ways clients can organise themselves to make the most of the new mobile phenomenon. Recent ...

Steve Parish (left) and Richard Jameson, former CEO and commercial director respectively of TAG Worldwide which they built up and sold to Williams Lea in 2011, are believed to be planning a new production company rival to the likes of ...

Michael Lee is a former ECD of Euro RSCG New York handling Volvo Worldwide. Born in England, he spent 20 years working on integrated accounts including Intel, JP Morgan, ExxonMobil and Jaguar. In 2012 he set up agency search consultancy ...

  In just seven years Droga (above), 45 and one of his six children raised in Australia, has created an agency that ranks with BBH and Wieden+Kennedy (both 30 years old) as one of the best in the world, one ...

It now appears there is a God of the good guys – up there at 35,000 feet. Having worked on several airline projects over the years I’ve been amazed at the continued upward trajectory of Ryanair year after year. Having ...

Consultancy seems to be a booming trade these days particularly among the ranks of advertisers who seems to need their hand holding more than they used to. One such operation is Brand Learning, headed by Mhairi McEwan, which turned over ...

My previous piece on the famous advertising lunch got me thinking about the ones that were truly about making history. When we went through the process of selling Simons Palmer to Omnicom it became clear the interest was purely for ...