Finance

OK, let’s take it from the top: Facebook’s IPO was a fiasco as there was clearly information available about the company’s struggle to reach ad revenue targets that were made available to some investors (the big boys) and not the ...

Here’s a very nice ad for Getty Images from Brazil’s AlmapBBDO. I usually steer clear of Getty Images because if you use so much as one of their pictures in an internal email you get a polite young person on ...

It looks like embattled Facebook has pulled a PR rabbit out of the hat in double quick time – ‘with a little help from my friends’ as the Beatles sang. In a previous opinion piece on the Facebook IPO saga ...

DDB London has just been taken over (in management terms) by hot London indie Adam & Eve in a £60m deal. It’s to be hoped the new managers manage to hang on to at least some of DDB’s creatives (they ...

Should we feel sad or glad for them? Viewed one way, Adam & Eve has just paid itself an awful lot of money to acquire a decent car account, Volkswagen. Looked at in another, what is arguably the UK’s most ...

John Lewis agency Adam & Eve, bought for £60m by Omnicom yesterday, seems to have executed a reverse takeover of flagging DDB London as the Adam & Eve-ites have emerged firmly on top in the merged agency’s management. The three ...

Kraft shareholders have agreed to buy the name Mondelez for the about-to-be spun off snacks business, incorporating the likes of Cadbury and Oreos among other brands. Here’s the logo (home-produced like the name?), complete with fiddly bits around the edges, ...

It’s all rather depressing really, a new agency comes on the scene, scores highly (in this case with one account) and then sells out at the top of what might be a very short market. But that’s what seems to ...

According to the business press, Wall Street is full of recriminations over the Facebook IPO. Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter, allegedly ignored downward revisions of forecasts from its own analysts during the roadshow pre-IPO. The top securities regulator in Massachusetts ...