Finance

Sly Bailey, Sylvia as was, has quit her job as CEO of Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People plus a collection of local papers in an argument with shareholders over her £1.7m pay package. Bailey, ...

Handily, just weeks before an IPO tipped to give Facebook a value twice that of Ford, some research has come to light underwriting investors’ colossal projection of faith. Here, to give the flavour, is Mediapost’s take on it: Social media ...

Lord Bell’s Chime Comunications marcoms company has endured a torrid few months with various shareholders, including 20 per cent holder WPP, opposing his lordship’s plan to buy out the Bell Pottinger PR business and rumblings of discontent over the company’s ...

The latest news that Miller Coors has consolidated its $200m business in to ‘Team WPP’ throws up a number of questions that are likely to be talked about in the HQs of the global networks. The key one I would ...

On LinkedIn there is a group for Chief Marketing Officers which I have joined to see what people talk about these days. Most of it is about all things digital for obvious reasons. One topic as a discussion was ‘what ...

The big marcoms groups have been defying gravity recently with their financial results, all of them growing way ahead of growth rates in Western economies where most of their business is still based. So the various big bosses have been ...

WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s base pay last rose from £1,m to £1.3m (relatively modest by current CEO standards, as he says) but his pay and benefits package rose from £4.23m to £6.77m including a payment from WPP’s short term ...

And pretty gruesome ‘Live for Now,’ sounds, focussing on ‘pop culture,’ as opposed to what’s in the can. According to Pepsi US marketing boss Simon Lowden:”When we look at what Pepsi really stands for, we’ve been an entertainment platform for ...

Here something to chill the hears and wallets of agency folk everywhere (actually they might be one and the same). The ad business’s favourite ‘frenemy’ Google is rolling out its Adwords for Video offer with TrueView video ads aimed at ...