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Which it has done in some style, escorting North American president Mark Modesto, CFO Bob Mallers and chief of staff Bill McCarthy out of the Chicago agency building on Wednesday evening. Whoever comprised IPG’s hit team was probably trying to ...

It’s interesting to see the apparent diversion in views about online between between the UK’s two mighty newspaper groups. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has hitched its fortunes to paywalls on The Times and the Sunday Times even though, so far, ...

Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy seems to have decided that Brazil is where the action is and he’s expected to snap up another agency there, Talent, for around $200m and add it to his recent acquisition of digital agency AG2. ...

“Bring me lucky generals,” said Napoleon. One wonders quite what l’empereur would have made of the !8th century equivalent of Richard Desmond (they’d probably have got on famously) but Dessie, who recently paid £103m for UK terrestrial broadcaster Five, seems ...

Whether it will work or not is another question of course but Levi’s decision to launch a new brand called Denizen in Asia looks like a rational way to approach shed loads of consumers who are immune to the appeal ...

Further good news for Apple. The iPad looks set to rival the Blackberry as the must-have corporate gizmo, judging by the latest research from Forresters, which found that as well as the expected consumer excitement over the device, companies are ...

UK adland seems awash with money at the moment with Chime Communications, the advertising to PR empire ruled by Mrs Thatcher’s favourite adman Lord Bell, turning in half year profits of £12.3m up from £8.9m (itself a good performance in ...

Or that’s what Dan Shute, author of the AdLand Suit blog seems to want anyway. And Dan has a point, Richmond sausages from Ireland’s Kerry Foods are surely one of the nastiest products ever made. Claiming to be an ancient ...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs said a while ago that the company had lots of goodies in the pipeline and it’s a sure bet that one of these will makes its appearance for the Christmas buying season. Latest rumours from Taiwan ...