Finance

We often muse in these pages about quite what sort of company WPP is and, more pertinently perhaps, what sort of company it intends to be. For years the assumption was that founder and CEO Sir Martin Sorrell just wanted ...

Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, is in Davos along with lots of other movers and shakers (he likes the place, he met the current Lady Sorrell there) and, he, like lots of other UK business leaders is aghast at ...

More signs have emerged about the erosion of Campaign, once the UK’s all-conquering advertising magazine. The title, launched in an elegant A3-ish format back in 1968 (297mm x 210mm sticks in my mind for some reason) is now to go ...

Rupert Howell (left), a founder of the HHCL agency, boss of McCann in London and former client sales supremo at ITV, is set to be the CEO of the People tabloid newspaper if Journalist Sue Douglas’s consortium succeeds in raising ...

As we suspected the airtime row between GroupM, which handles big negotiations for WPP’s media agencies including MediaCom, Mindshare and MEC, and publicly-backed UK broadcaster Channel 4 did escalate to involve the higher ranks of WPP. Which means CEO Sir ...

Blimey, ‘independent directors’ standing up to Rupert Murdoch. These bods (not the same ones presumably) were first appointed in 1981 when Margaret Thatcher allowed owner of the Sun Rupert Murdoch to buy The Times and the Sunday Times. When, shortly ...

Honda seems to be in a bit of a mess at the moment; laying off 800 workers at its UK plant while upscale rival Jaguar Land Rover is adding them. And the company is reviewing its creative agency in the ...

And here’s what the survey from WPP’s research company Millward Brown says: This year’s ranking shows that brands are becoming more important to the Chinese consumer. Despite a challenging economic environment, strong brands outperformed their competitors and the broader stock ...

Well here’s a turn-up; Gillette has dropped agency-of-the-moment Wieden+Kennedy from the shortlist for its $300m account, leaving Grey and Saatchi & Saatchi to compete against incumbent BBDO (Publicis has also been dumped). Gillette is owned by Procter & Gamble and ...