Pay-TV has become an essential in the UK rather than a luxury as more and more of the best content (sport, movies) migrates to the various pay channels. Charles Dunstone’s TalkTalk has been, with a few alarums, a success against ...
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Mergers of equals are rather out of fashion at the moment following the Omnicom/Publicis fiasco but that hasn’t stopped Dixons and Carphone Warehouse tying the knot (as we forecast on Monday). The £3.7bn merger looks a reasonable fit on the ...
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It would be interesting to know how much Dixons’ and Carphone Warehouse’s respective agencies – AMV/BBDO and CHI & Partners – knew about the two companies’ proposed £4bn merger. The two are expected to announce the terms this week which ...
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Vertu mobile phones are a pretty strange idea. Made by Nokia, the British-based company is now privately owned and still with us even though its phones sell for about £3,000 and sharply upwards. But the owners have obviously decided they ...
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Who would have thought just a year ago that Morrisons, under new Canadian boss Dalton Philips, would be planning to dramatically increase its non-food business while long-term market leader Tesco, under new CEO, Phillip Clarke, would be facing a UK ...
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WPP has had its tanks parked on Bartle Bogle Hegarty’s lawn (the one displaying its £47m Vodafone UK client) since JWT lost the business in 2006 and BBH lost its global brief last year. And in May this year WPP-owned ...
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Giant US electrical retailer Best Buy’s foray into the UK has not been an unalloyed success with the company cutting back its planned store expansion to concentrate on online sales. The UK launch is a joint venture with Carphone Warehouse ...
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