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Vertu mobile phones are a pretty strange idea. Made by Nokia, the British-based company is now privately owned and still with us even though its phones sell for about £3,000 and sharply upwards. But the owners have obviously decided they ...

It’s all change at Tesco these days and now the supermarket giant has decided to review the ad production deal it struck with Williams Lea-owned TAG less than a year after it appointed the production company to work alongside new ...

For years now it’s seemed like a one way bet: expand in the BRICS (the emerging markets of China, Brazil, India and Russia); go further afield to the likes of Indonesia and Vietnam and even, gulp, invest in the Middle ...

Michael Lee is a former ECD of Euro RSCG New York, handling Volvo worldwide. In 2012 he set up agency search consultancy Madam. Usually around this time of year, I would find myself on the Croisette at the Cannes Lions ...

We thought WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell had been a bit quiet at Cannes but it turns out he did say some quite newsworthy things – to Ad Age in this video. For some reason they decided to sit on it ...

WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell (left) is pushing towards his target of 40 per cent of revenues from digital with two more small-ish acquisitions:New York’s Group SJR will will join the Hill & Knowlton PR network and South Africa’s Native. ...

Leagas Delaney, the British-based advertising network has formed an alliance with Booz & Company, one of the world’s leading strategic management consultancies, to help companies understand and capitalize on the disruptive effects of digital technologies. Leagas Delaney chairman and founder ...

Kellogg’s Special K has been one of those wonderful brands that surf over all the rubbish talked about healthy diets (last year if you drank a glass of wine while pregnant you’d both be dead, this year it’s OK again). ...

We all get accustomed to the power certain brands can have on society, like the queues snaking around Apple stores when a new product is about to go on sale. However I have found a new and unexpected ripple effect ...