Finance

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 ...

Would it be a bird or a plane – or a smartphone? There was much excitement this week about what new product Facebook would unveil and it was: Graph Search. So is this a game-changer in the search market? Rio ...

Until a couple of days ago, few outside the food retail and logistics business would ever have heard of Silvercrest. Now it has achieved household notoriety as the weak-link in the food chain that has served illegal horse meat up ...

Former Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy execs Helen Calcraft, Danny Brooke-Taylor (creatives) and planner Andy Nairn (left, in the picture) are setting up a new, as yet unnamed agency. MCBD was backed by Canadian outfit Cossette and merged with digital agency ...

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves (pictured) has confirmed that he wants to offload its outdoor business outside the US (including the UK) while it plans to turn itself into a REIT, essentially a property investment company, in its home market. REITs ...

Recession, what recession? The global advertising market saw healthy growth during the third quarter of 2012, according to Nielsen’s quarterly Global AdView Pulse report. Spending was up 4.3 per cent over Q3 2011, to $139 billion. This gain outpaced the ...

With all of the worrying news on the UK retail scene (Comet, Jessops, now HMV) it makes me wonder to what extent management of these companies genuinely listen to what the great unwashed actually think. I fully understand the energy ...

It has been compared to bottoms – and also the most fiendishly complicated sex toy yet devised by Ann Summers. Yes, the new ITV logo, spearheading the TV station’s most ambitious rebrand in 11 years, has turned us into a ...

**Long-suffering music business HMV has finally toppled into administration as suppliers have refused more credit. It’s all about downloads of course, there aren’t enough old farts (like me) hunting around for CDs. The move follows hard on the heels of ...