Finance

David Thomson is the boss of the family-owned Thomson Corporation that owns financial information firm Thomson Reuters and Canada’s Globe and Mail national newspaper. Like his father and grandfather he likes to keep a low profile, but hasn’t he done ...

A senior account man was on the way to an important new business pitch when his car gave up the ghost and stopped. He called the client to be told if he didn’t make the appointed time his agency would ...

UK department store group John Lewis, the big success on the UK high street in recent years, is planning its first major foray abroad by launching its website in 12 European countries in June and 25 others around the world, ...

Euro RSCG boss David Jones has moved even further up the Havas ladder, to the top actually by replacing Fernando Rodes Vila as CEO of the sixth-biggest marcoms company (after Dentsu). Jones’ promotion is well-deserved (under him Euro has thrived ...

Now the chief marketing officers of the big banks don’t earn the kind of money that Barclays, for example, dispenses among its top managers and performers. Which, with share sales granted under incentive schemes, means that Barclays CEO Bob Diamond ...

Doesn’t the guy sleep? Well clearly not. He found time at 2am New York time to talk to CNBC Europe’s Squark Box financial news show about WPP’s revenue and profits (understandable), why he’s going to pay shareholders an increased dividend ...

Some say it can (The BBC’s Robert Peston who points out that the putative deal with BSkyB is likely to mean a 14-year news provider’s licence in practice), others, like former Sky News boss Andrew Neil, speaking on the BBC, ...

All the biggies – WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and Interpublic – have now reported their 2010 revenue and profits and it’s pretty much the same message: a big bounceback for traditional advertising (as against all this new-fangled digital stuff), especially ...

And a pretty good job he makes of it although it’s still hard to see why he didn’t just kick the controversial deal by which Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation wants to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it doesn’t ...