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In many ways, the business year starts in September. CEOs come back from their holidays with batteries recharged and new worlds to conquer. Or just the desire to hang on to their job. So who, in the world of advertising, ...

One of the tihings UK adland is looking forward to this year is BBH’s debut campaign for Tesco (the business moved there from Wieden+Kennedy without a pitch in January). We’re also still waiting to see who wins Tesco’s media account, ...

New Tesco boss Dave ‘Drastic’ Lewis (left) has called a pitch for Tesco’s whopper media account, variously estimated in the UK at between £100m and £140m. As such it’s one of the biggest although Tesco has, historically, been keen to ...

We all thought a review of the Tesco account was on the cards when Dave Lewis took over as CEO from Phil Clarke but action man Lewis has dispensed with such fripperies and moved the £140m account straight to BBH ...

So far so good for new Tesco CEO Dave Lewis. ‘Drastic Dave’ was true to form today, announcing the closure of Tesco’s cramped and scruffy Cheshunt HQ in favour of the sunlit uplands of Welwyn Garden City and 43 non-performing ...

It’s difficult to overestimate the impact the revelations about Tesco’s ‘profits’ – or lack of them – are having on wider business in the UK. The grocer’s past booking of vast profits – if its current profit warning is any ...

Money continues to cascade out of Tesco, which has just announced that this year’s trading profit will be £1bn less (that’s one billion) than it and analysts thought. They were expecting £2.4bn. We say ‘cascade’ because the word makes an ...

Social media agency Jam, is one of the stars of Peter Scott’s Engine Group (actually now Lake Capital’s) and it tackles client Tesco Mobile with a certain vigour. Tesco Mobile seems to be one of the more attractive bits of ...

Tesco, it has emerged, has been cooking the books for years. Today outgoing chairman (as of today) Sir Richard Broadbent announced that the overstatement of its profits amounts to £263m (as opposed to the earlier estimate of £250m) and goes ...