Finance

RKCR/Y&R is proving a useful grounding for breakaways and now Joint, the agency formed by former Y&R directors Damon Collins and Richard Exon, has landed its first piece of business – Verde, the name for the 600 or so bank ...

Havas boss David Jones is sticking to his policy of shopping in the bargain basement of marcoms land, with Don Elgie’s Creston mini-marcoms outfit revealing that the French-owned firm has bought six per cent of its shares. News emerged of ...

We might be flogging a dead horse here but it’s interesting that WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has endorsed our view that Publicis Groupe’s much-reported ‘denial’ of a bid for Interpublic isn’t quite as denying as it seems. Essentially PG has ...

Everybody else in marcoms land may be opening their wallets (or taking a look and then putting it back in their pockets in the case of Publicis Groupe with Interpublic) but Havas boss David Jones has decided that hiring rather ...

It’s as well to read to small print in these things. On Sunday Pubicis Groupe released the following (rather lumpy) statement concerning rumours of an imminent deal to buy US giant Interpublic.: “Following the speculations published by FT.com Alphaville and ...

The market, as I said last week, is awash with rumours that Publicis Groupe is about to pounce on poor old Interpublic Group. No, really – seriously awash. So much so that IPG stock had jumped more than ten per ...

The news about Tesco’s appointment of production company TagWorldwide alongside agency Wieden+Kennedy seems to have opened a window on a quiet revolution taking place behind the scenes in adland. The buzz phrase is ‘de-coupling’, which sounds a bit suspect, depending ...

Andrew Gimson in the London Evening Standard has written a piece I’ve been mulling over but not quite had the confidence to write about; he has suggested Boris Johnson is limbering up to become the future leader of the UK. ...

My friend George Parker thinks McCann Worldgroup boss Nick Brien is angling for a job at Facebook. If he is he’s better get a move on and forget all that gardening leave nonsense because post-IPO Facebook really is beginning to ...