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One of BBH’s historic strengths is building long-term relationships with its clients – When Levi’s departed the agency (admittedly years back) nobody could believe it and Levi’s floundered afterwards. The agency recently retained Barclays in a pitch against London’s finest ...

Richard Ireland is managing director of Gramercy Park Studios, the post production house within WPP-owned production giant Hogarth. Gramercy Park has studios in London and New York. Desert Island Ads Gramercy Park Studios offers high end to end post production ...

Hard on the heels of buying New York and London-based Droga5, Accenture Interactive has snapped up another highly-regarded creative agency Shackleton in Madrid. Shackleton was founded in 2004 and now has 160 staff. Clients include Coty, Campari, Aperol and Sony ...

Fosters is back with its first TV campaign for four years from adam&eveDDB, featuring popular ockers Brad and Dan. Strangely enough, Brad and Dan won the IPA Effectiveness Awards Grand Prix back in 2014, which seems to have prompted owner ...

Spring has sprung in the UK (it’s bucketing down with rain in my corner of the metropolis) and it seems a new recession is on the way as businesses and consumers despair of anything good emerging from the Brexit farrago. ...

The whole car industry is in flux at the moment, with car share schemes taking off, Uber everywhere, and driverless cars just around the corner, but the old-fashioned car rental market has not given up yet, judging by this high ...

More diverting doings in London’s adland: AMV BBDO group chairman Justin Pahl (left) is off to be CEO of WPP’s VMLY&R London (which doesn’t look like the most obvious thing to do) leaving Sarah Douglas in charge as AMV CEO ...

If you think the Accenture/Droga5 tie-up is a big deal, think what may be happening in France. Publicis is considering a $5bn offer for data firm Epsilon, its biggest potential deal so far and one that has spooked shareholders as ...

This year’s gender pay gap figures are now public, and it won’t surprise anyone that progress has been slow. It’s disappointing, especially when there seem to be more high profile women running the industry. Annette King (below) is CEO of ...