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Well BNET’s Jim Edwards, the man who brought us the gory details of Grey London’s problems with its clients over un-returned discounts, thinks so anyway. Edwards argues that IPG is still hobbled by the debts it owes to its clients ...

WPP has bought lively Canadian creative agency Taxi to add to its Y&R Brands stable which also includes PR firms Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe and what’s left of Enfatico, the agency it set up to handle the Dell account. ...

You can’t beat a conference in Barcelona to attract the top talent at this time of year and the Morgan Stanley TMT talk-fest on at the moment has attracted, inter alia, WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell and News Corporation’s James Murdoch. ...

That’s not quite true, shareholders will be pleased that the price is up nearly 50 per cent year on year and that the company has reported an 11 per cent rise in revenues for the first nine months of 2010 ...

We don’t want to sound too gloomy of course, the irrepressible industry veteran (65) is hardly reaching for his pipe and carpet slippers. But Robin Wight, one of the founders of WCRS back in 1979 and a stalwart of the ...

The Royal Bank of Scotland, the bank brought to the edge of destruction by the infamous Sir Fred Goodwin and now owned by the taxpayer, is searching for a PR company. How To Get Your Ex Back Free A pretty ...

“We’re cheating and stealing from our clients. That is the truth,” is what Steve Blamer, the newly-appointed CEO of Grey London is alleged to have said to managing director Roger Edwards and finance director Roy Wilson when he inspected the ...

Only by a little bit, mind, as the UK’s grocers (who sell a lot more than groceries these days) appear to have fought each other to a standstill in their last quarter’s trading. Sainsbury’s sales increased by 6.1 per cent ...

Others have tried and failed of course, notably the regime of Sir Rick Greenbury which bought a number of flagship stores in Europe and also Ivy League outfitter Brooks Brothers and Kings supermarkets in the US. But Bolland, as part ...