Finance

Inflation in the UK has soared to 9%, with 10% forecast, resulting in a 40-year high primarily due to escalating costs of energy, food, transport, and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. As business costs go up, most companies will need ...

We don’t hear so much about Chinese companies taking over the marcoms world these days but We Are Social, owned by China’s BlueFocus International, continues to expand, this time buying Singapore-based influencer agency Kobe. Kobe’s line-up includes celebrities, Instagrammers, bloggers ...

HSBC, the bank described as “too big to jail” over money-laundering allegations in Mexico, doesn’t avoid potential controversy in its marketing either and it’s back with a cracker from David Buenos Aires. ‘Dear customer’ is about the perils of identity ...

The M&C Saatchi share price isn’t helping the M&C board and preferred suitor Next15, sinking below 200p which makes rival Vin Murria’s bid, exceeded comfortably by Next15’s £310m a couple of weeks ago, more attractive. Next15’s share price isn’t helping ...

A couple of years ago Walgreens Boots’ deal with WPP was hailed as “revolutionary” by all and sundry, encompassing those terribly modern things data, diversity and in-housing. And outcome-based fees, which probably lay at the heart of it. Since then ...

Burger King has been one of the most noteworthy advertisers of recent years, a series of campaigns by David Miami and its offshoots relentlessly winding up McDonald’s (although McD seems to sail serenely on, the odd errant CEO notwithstanding.) David ...

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has come and gone – with surprisingly few mishaps, even the weather was (relatively) kind – but this McDonald’s poster from Leo Burnett is worth a belated mention. Spotted by Ad Contrarian Bob Hoffman, among others. ...

BBH looks like an agency on the way back – it never went away of course, still one of the UK’s biggest, now in the Publicis empire – but it once stood for different: zagging while the others zigged. After ...

Generations pass, alas, and John Evans, a co-founder of media independent AMS (formerly All Media Services) has died at 75. AMS, and Evans of course, was one of the great survivors, continuing to this day in robust form when many ...