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It isn’t quite all doom and gloom on the British high street – although most of it is – and US-owned TK Maxx is a rare bright spot, posting a 6.4 per cent sales rise to £3bn and profits up ...

Is Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4Capital setting the pace in advertising, barely a year after he set it up following his defenestration from WPP? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say, and now Fimalac, a holding company owned ...

Adam&eveDDB is evidently enjoying client PlayStation and here’s another zesty number for the Sony brand, welcoming gamers themselves into the games. Not the most radical notion perhaps but rare (if not unknown) in this category where agencies often seem to ...

By Colin Wheeler So for England it wasn’t to be. Congratulations South Africa, and this will mean so much more than just winning a World Cup for the Rainbow nation as it continues to unite its diversity. But what a ...

For all the nostalgia, no one working in advertising today really wants to return to the Mad Men days. It’s always tempting to take a rose-tinted view of the past: after all, it’s the only real comparison we have to ...

You do wonder if the management of big companies ever communicate with each other. Asda launched its glittery new Christmas ad from AMV BBDO on Saturday, at exactly the time thousands of workers faced the chop if they didn’t sign ...

Just when you thought everything in the garden was rosy – McDonald’s has fired its British-born CEO Steve Easterbrook, who’s overseen a doubling in its share price since taking the top job in 2015, over a “consensual relationship” with an ...

Sir Martin Sorrell says his S4Capital has morphed into a pumpkin from a peanut (maybe biology’s not his thing) as it reports organic growth of over 40 per cent this year in a third quarter trading update. He says: “Our ...

Here’s a supremely joyful Christmas ad. Mother’s pan-European spot for online clothing retailer Zalando features a young man taking his grandmother to a big Christmas community ball, where everyone is welcome. The parade of styles, ages, and ethnicities feels entirely ...