Finance

Omnicom, owner of BBDO, DDB and TBWA, has confirmed the recovery in advertising industry fortunes with fourth quarter 2010 like for like revenue growth of ten per cent bringing total revenue in 2010 to $12.5bn (up 6.5 per cent) and ...

Domino’s Pizza is predicting sustained growth on the back of excellent figures announced today, but is it possible that chief executive Chris Moore had his “Ratner” moment when he informed us that there was a double-dip jump in demand for ...

Marc Bolland, now helming Mars & Spencer, turned away from online during his spell as CEO of supermarket group Morrisons (he probably noticed that only Tesco out of his rivals made money out of it) but his succesor Dalton Philips ...

Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy says he wants 30 per cent of the company’s earnings to come from emerging markets like China and Brazil in the next few years and, to that end, intends “to make some acquisitions in China.” ...

There’s no holding Canada-based MDC Partners and the ambitious marcoms groups has followed its purchase of a minority stake in LA’s 72andSunny with a deal to buy 60 per cent of controversial integrated agency Anomaly, based in New York and ...

Is the pressure of competitive action and lower consumer spending starting to tell on John Lewis, previously the undisputed star of the UK retailer sector? buying glasses online Just two weeks ago it saw its sales drop for the first ...

One-time market-leading ISP AOL has been trying to reinvent itself as an online content provider since it split from Time Warner in 2009 and now CEO Tim Armstrong has bet the ranch on Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post, the ...

I was with some senior chaps from the ad world the other day and the discussion turned to the topic of management; the good, bad and downright ugly. The collective view was that getting a management role is a bit ...

According to the accepted wisdom British pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB has made its big investments in programme rights (particularly football), technology (HD and 3-D) and marketing (ten million customers) and all that’s left is for it to count the money. Which ...