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You really couldn’t make it up. A poultry producer from India called Venky’s has just bought Premier League club Blackburn Rovers for £47m (have they received the money yet?) fired the capable manager Sam Allardyce and announced that they intend ...

Coca-Cola executives in Atlanta were none too amused when England footballer Wayne Rooney, the star of its Coca-Cola Zero advertising in the UK, was revealed enjoying the attention of Manchester hookers when wife Colleen was pregnant. An almighty row ensued ...

Aim-listed Mission Marketing Group has bought the remains of Newcastle agency Robson Brown from receivership. The company, which also owns Big Communications in Leicester, West Country-based Bray Leino and Fuse Digital, beat three former Robson Brown directors to buy the ...

WPP-owned public affairs firm Dewey Square is under investigation from the US Department of Justice over fake letters sent to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission on behalf of a so far unnamed client, believed to ...

Well they could certainly do with it and new Easyjet CEO Carolyn McCall, latterly of the Guardian Media Group, has certainly made her intentions clear by hiring Audi UK marketing director Peter Duffy as her marketing boss. For years the ...

Jeremy Hunt being the coalition culture secretary whose name Today programme presenter James Naughtie and then Andrew Marr got so spectacularly wrong on BBC’s Radio 4 last week. Anyway Hunt has got it into his head that the UK could ...

Campaign has chosen its ten worst celebrity ads of 2010 and it includes some big names – John Cleese, Derek Jacobi and James May for Fuller’s (bit harsh that one). But we Brits tend not to like celebs in ads ...

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 ...