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Peter Scott’s UK marcoms contender Engine Group has been quiet of late as it struggles to find the right agency acquisition in the US but it’s also setting its eyes on Asia, where marcoms companies are making an increasing amount ...

2011 was the year that Peter Scott’s Engine Group, owner of ad agency WCRS and PR firm MHP, showed signs of running out of gas but Scott says that trading has improved in 2012 and 35 per cent shareholder HIG ...

Engine Group CFO Peter Harris has been replaced by Ashley Martin, the third big change in recent months at Peter Scott’s marcoms company Engine Group, owner of UK agency WCRS. Harris only took over from predecessor Ian Day two years ...

It’s pretty hard to think of any UK company that’s been as deep in the mire as News International, the News Corporation-owned company that published the recently-extinguished phone-hacking News of the World. But News is reviewing its £28m account according ...

College Group, the UK mini marcoms group based on College Hill financial PR has sold just over half the company to US venture capital firm Vitruvian in a deal that values the whole company at £45m, leading to a £20m ...

Clients, marketers, are pretty sensible most of the time but show them a sportsman and their common sense goes through the window as rapidly as Lewis Hamilton drives off the grid (usually into someone else). Santander UK has announced a ...

Interpublic-owned Weber Shandwick, which claims to be the world’s biggest PR company, is entering the content game in London with the creation of what amounts to a 12-strong in-house creative department. The company, led by chairman Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer ...

At first glance Publicis Groupe’s agreed $575m bid for US-based Rosetta Marketing Group looked like the addition of a third leg to the company’s VivaKi digital media group which already includes big buys Digitas and Razorfish. Not so says boss ...

Judging by recent events in the car industry, like Jaguar’s formation of new in-house agency Spark 44 (led by German executives), it could be just about anything. First off are BMW’s US accounts, worth around $300m. National creative advertising is ...