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Stevie Spring, who was ousted as CEO of Future Publishing last October, is joining ambitious UK marcoms contender Engine Group as a non-executive director. Also joining in the same role is John Bernbach, president of Engine’s US holding company (and ...

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell shows no sign of losing his appetite for digital acquisitions even after shelling out $540m for digital giant AKQA. The company has just completed a deal to buy a majority stake in the UK digital agency ...

Word reaches me that Aegis’ Carat has just lost one of France’s biggest media accounts to WPP’s Mindshare. SFR, the mobile phone carrier owned by Vivendi, has a media budget of about €150m (£120m). Overall, it is one of France’s ...

The new model Tesco has chosen for its £110m advertising account has provoked a great deal of interest; not least due to it being made public which really is new news. The combo of Wieden & Kennedy and TagWorldwide makes ...

It may have escaped the attention of General Motors executives (whose ranks now don’t include former CMO Joel Ewanick) but Manchester United and Liverpool are the two deadliest rivals in English football. Yet the company is proposing to sponsor both ...

The departure of Joel Ewanick as CMO of General Motors (pictured) is a sudden and unexpected move not helped by the comment from GM: “.. he failed to meet the expectations that a company has of an employee.” Hmmm, not ...

Moving an ad account these days is quite a performance, chiefly because you have the procurement department in there (often running the pitch when their job is to save money) and agency matchmakers, one of whose roles in life is ...

“He failed to meet the expectations that the company has for its employees,” said General Motors spokesman Greg Martin cryptically. That looks like being GM global marketing supremo Joel Ewanick’s epitaph. The marketing whirligig quit abruptly this weekend, after two ...

Well, well, the world’s most famous marketer, General Motors global CMO Joel Ewanick (left), instigator of the Commonwealth agency for Chevrolet and the decision to award all the company’s $3bn global media budget to Carat, has ‘resigned.’ Not that he ...