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Which looks like a pretty cunning plan. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is planning to hive off its troubled UK newspaper business into a separate company (along with its other papers like the Wall Street Journal), leaving its ‘entertainment’ assets – ...

WPP’s $540m purchase of AKQA seems to have put the (big) cats firmly among the digital pigeons with rumours abounding that Amsterdam-based LBi, slightly bigger than AKQA with $250m revenue and $22m net profit, is also looking for a buyer. ...

Engine Group CFO Peter Harris has been replaced by Ashley Martin, the third big change in recent months at Peter Scott’s marcoms company Engine Group, owner of UK agency WCRS. Harris only took over from predecessor Ian Day two years ...

DDB creative chief Amir Kassaei (left) is not one to pull his punches: he’s already accused other holding companies (for which read WPP, the winner of the most-awarded holding company gong this year and last) of vote rigging and now ...

Dear oh dear, the Cannes International Festival of Creativity’s decision to introduce a ‘Holding Company,’ award, for the agency group winning the most Lions, was always bound to end in tears and now it has. The award was introduced last ...

WPP has unveiled its new agency – called Cavalry – set up specifically to handle new Client Coors. The agency will be based in Chicago and, initially at least, work solely on digital and traditional advertising for $170m Coors and ...

Well he is the boss of a French company and speaks good French, although Havas CEO David Jones (left) was chatting to Campaign in English when he remarked that WPP would collapse on its nose if and when CEO Sir ...

And then there was – nobody of much note (LBi possibly excepted) among digital agencies and Wieden+Kennedy and Mother holding out against the mighty wallets of the big marcoms companies in the creative sector. AKQA, the world’s biggest digital agency, ...

Publicis Groupe’s Maurice Levy is a key player in the French political cum business establishment and he now seems to be intent on doing his bit in the rather more volatile environment of the Middle East. Today the French-owned marcoms ...