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Kraft may be the second-largest food company in the world but new first quarter numbers show that the business was going precisely nowhere until it acquired UK chocolate maker Cadbury in a hotly-contested and highly controversial $18.9bn takeover in January. ...

You have to hold your hands up, as a football manager might say, the boys done well. Ipsos Mori’s exit poll of over 17,000 voters in the UK general election was right on the money, its prediction of 307 Conservative ...

Telegraph CEO Murdoch MacLennan came from Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, where the so-called managers are treated like servants on speed, lackeys to service the desires of the hacks. But in his new role as CEO of Telegraph ...

A small pub in Pretoria, South Africa, host to next month’s football World Cup, has just been banned from putting up a sign that reads “World Cup 2010”. The pub had fallen foul of the courts, which deemed that it’s ...

Twitter soft-launched a new ad model on April 13 which it has named promoted tweets. The basic premise is that advertisers pay for their ads to end up in search results generated by their 45 million-strong user base. The launch ...

Agencies and clients often talk about their relationship as partnerships although an uneasy truce might be a better way of describing many of them. Recently there’ve been a couple of small explosions from the front, London digital agency i-level going ...

What with all his restaurants, TV shows, books and magazines, you’d think Jamie Oliver has enough on his plate but now he’s moving into the world of events and corporate entertaining. He’s joined up with event catering company Chili Pepper, ...

I guess there has always been a slew of celebrity endorsements come election time but, of course, you forget them as soon as it’s over. Or maybe before. But not content with lining up hordes of captains of industry (and ...

Well if past performance is any guide he’ll go shopping for a few more big media assets. His company News Corporation has just announced that third quarter revenue was up 19 per cent on the previous year to a stonking ...