Tag Archives: Creston

Mid-sized UK marcoms group Creston PLC – which recently rebranded as Creston Unlimited at the operating level after its biggest agency TMW Unlimited – is being bought by investment firm DBAY Advisers. DBAY, a mysterious outfit domiciled in the Isle ...

Quoted UK marcoms company Creston has taken a 27 per cent stake in Londov creative agency 18 Feet & Rising, paying £1m of which half is earmarked to invest in the business. Creston, which has latterly concentrated on digital and ...

Have the world’s advertisers decided they know everything? Or are the likes of Google providing them with so much data that they don’t need other research companies any more? We’ve remarked before on the way research -or ‘insight’ as it ...

Havas boss David Jones is sticking to his policy of shopping in the bargain basement of marcoms land, with Don Elgie’s Creston mini-marcoms outfit revealing that the French-owned firm has bought six per cent of its shares. News emerged of ...

The market, as I said last week, is awash with rumours that Publicis Groupe is about to pounce on poor old Interpublic Group. No, really – seriously awash. So much so that IPG stock had jumped more than ten per ...

New London agency Now calls itself an “agency for the accelerated world” but in its early days the agency seemed to go into rapid reverse. The agency was formed by former COI boss Mark Lund last year, seemingly with the ...

Lynx’s online campaign featuring glamour model Lucy Pinder was one of the own goals of the year, being (belatedly) banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority. So now Lucy is appearing in a new film saying ‘sorry’ as she ruefully ...

We wrote earlier that DDB London wasn’t the happiest place at the moment with redundancies expected and it’s been hit by another body blow with the departure of four top creatives – Dave Henderson, Richard Denney, Christian Sewell and Andy ...

Former agency boss Steve Blamer is setting himself up as an agency search consultant, without whom no big agency review seems complete these days, and has told Ad Age that the business is rife with double dipping, search consultants taking ...