Finance

Well the good knight didn’t get to where he is today by not reading the small print and he’s evidently waiting to see just how WPP will benefit from coalition chancellor George Osborne’s Budget changes before finally committing the marcoms ...

We’re assuming that Publicis Groupe’s Maurice Levy, who postponed his retirement last year, does indeed want to catch WPP and Omnicom but that seems to be the message from the string of (admittedly small) acquisitions the company has made since ...

Brand Finance’s annual survey of the world’s top 500 brands (company brands in the top ten, which is quite revealing) ranks Google, worth $44.3bn (£27.3bn), as the world’s leading brand, pushing Microsoft into second place. Top UK brand is Vodafone ...

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 ...