We often hear about the absence of a marketing voice at the top tables of big companies these days but that can’t be said of Adam Crozier, tipped to be the next chairman of the UK’s BT, a massive business ...
Read More »Adam Crozier departure is seven year hitch for ITV
ITV CEO Adam Crozier is leaving the company, rather sooner than expected, which leaves the UK’s two biggest ad-funded commercial broadcasters with vacancies at the top. Channel 4’s David Abraham announced in March that he was standing down. Both enjoyed ...
Read More »What’s next for Adam Crozier and ITV?
ITV CEO Adam Crozier is joining Costa and Premier Inn owner Whitbread as a non-exec, suggesting that his exit from ITV might be more imminent than expected. New ITV chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette has hired headhunters Spencer Stuart to canvas ...
Read More »ITV’s Crozier strikes a cautious note as production-led company rides out first Brexit shock wave
ITV continues to bring in the money – first half revenues up 11 per cent, profits by nine per cent – despite Brexit fears. CEO Adam Crozier (below) says he’s planning to cut costs by £25m to prepare for the ...
Read More »ITV’s production performance steers value to £10bn
ITV’s pre-tax profits rose to £641m in 2015 – £843m on an ‘adjusted’ basis, which is a hell of an adjustment – with total revenue up 14 per cent to £3.38bn. Ad revenue rose six per cent to £1.72bn with ...
Read More »ITV profits: never mind the ratings – feel the money
How can you increase revenue and profits (by around eight per cent and 30 per cent respectively while your market share is falling? Run the UK’s biggest commercial terrestrial broadcaster of course. In other words, be ITV. ITV’s ad revenue, ...
Read More »Does Adam Crozier deserve his £8.4m ITV pay?
Well it’s not bad for someone who started life as an ad rep on the Daily Telegraph and then found himself in the hot seat at Saatchi & Saatchi as Charles, Maurice and others departed for M&C Saatchi with, among ...
Read More »Profits soar at Adam Crozier’s ITV – but that may make the cash-rich UK broadcaster a takeover target
Thee late Lord Thomson, who lost a packet when he owned The Times and Sunday Times in the UK, also owned Scottish Television, part of ITV. And he famously described commercial television in the UK as “a licence to print ...
Read More »ITV CEO Adam Crozier hands out the cash although advertising revenues are flat
ITV CEO Adam Crozier (left) played an unseasonal Santa Claus this morning with a £246m giveaway to shareholders from the £800m or so cash the company has accumulated over the past few years. This is a considerable achievement but it ...
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