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It’s always dangerous (indeed almost unheard of) to write off the mighty Tesco, the UK’s biggest retailer, but in the UK anyway the company does not seem to be able to pull the marketing levers with the same precision it ...

Hardly had AIM-listed Media Square gone into administration than it re-emerged phoenix-like as MSQ Partners, consisting largely of the same people and companies but with less debt. It looks as though Lloyds Bank (41 per cent owned by you and ...

Embattled mini-marcoms group Media Square, which owns Dave Trott’s agency csttg, has asked for its shares on London’s AIM stock market to be suspended after its (so far unnamed) bank declined to offer the additional funding it needs. “The company’s ...

As if Havas CEO David Jones wasn’t busy enough he’s found time to write a new book, Who Cares Wins: Why Good Business is Better Business. Here he explains why he wrote it. Six years ago, I was asked to ...

Chris Barraclough, writing in Marketing magazine, is right. While the marketing community obsesses about Marks & Spencer lingerie ads, Size Zero models, Twitter trending and the monetisation of Facebook, it is almost entirely oblivious to some criminality of Dickensian proportions ...

Back in November US ratings agency Standard & Poor’s sent a note to online subscribers saying it planned to lower the credit rating of France from its much-prized AAA – only it didn’t. A not very chastened S&P described it ...

Well this should be fun: Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld has decided to hitch her star to the new Cadbury-based snacks business when Kraft Foods splits into two companies next year. North American V-P Tony Vernon will boss the boring old ...

Which shouldn’t surprise anyone really – let’s just hope Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy bear the ad industry in mind when they meet for the umpteenth time today to try to sort out a eurozone fix. Publicis Groupe-owned ZenithOptimedia produces ...

Jeremy Ellis, marketing director of TUI Travel (pictured), must be feeling pretty pleased with himself. Not only has he emerged, after 20 years in the wings, as the new brand-meister of Thomson Holidays and First Choice. He has also managed ...