Finance

‘Flash mob’ UK protest group UK Uncut has already mounted a series of protests against companies it sees as avoiding (as opposed to evading, which is illegal) UK tax. So far Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Group has been targeted, with ...

Newcastle agency Robson Brown went bust recently but, strangely enough, it never seems to have been more popular. We seem to have Mission Marketing Group buying some of it and former directors buying the rest. All very confusing but at ...

It doesn’t look as though the corporate lawyers will be getting home for Christmas this year, bids and deals are beginning to flow in the ad industry at last. Toronto-based MDC Partners, owner of Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Kirschenbaum ...

Boston-based Communispace is hardly a household name but, according to my old chum Stuart Smith, it’s about to receive a $100m bid from Omnicom which is reported to have recently raised $1bn for such acquisitions. Communispace, founded by Harvard MBA ...

But what’s it got to do with them? Well UK supermarket group William Morrison was one of the sponsors of the unsuccessful England 2018 World Cup bid, investing £1m in a process costing £18m that gained just two votes out ...

Martin Puris, formerly of Ammirati & Puris, is the CEO of UK-based Engine Group in the US, trying to replicate the ‘everything under one roof’ philosophy of the group’s ambitious boss Peter Scott. Here he tells Ad Age how he’s ...

And if they do will that bring this year’s advertising and media recovery to a juddering halt? There’s no doubt that the looming increase in UK VAT to 20 per cent will boost sales this Christmas, which are already looking ...

Yes it’s hardly a household name but Wimm-Bill-Dann controls 30 per cent of the Russian fruit juice and dairy products market, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and operates in ten countries. And PepsiCo has decided to shell ...

Japanese agency Denstu is the most valuable agency brand in the world at $1.3bn according to consultancy Brand Finance, ahead of McCann Erickson Worldwide on $793m, Ogilvy & Mather on $645m and TBWA on $560m. But it is only the ...