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Millward Brown, WPP-owned Kantar’s global brand research consultancy, has appointed Louise Ainsworth (left) as its new UK CEO. Ainsworth joins from advertising and media data company WARC where she has been CEO since 2012. Prior to WARC Ainsworth was senior ...

Year in, year out WPP tops the list of busy acquirers in the marcoms sector, not necessarily by monetary value but in terms of numbers of deals. 2016 looks like being more of the same and WPP’s Millward Brown, what ...

Internet service company Tencent (left) has become the most valuable Chinese brand for the first time, according to WPP research company Millward Brown’s latest Brandz survey of the country. Newly-listed online retailer Alibaba entering the rankings at No.2. Both brands ...

WPP qualitative research operation Millward Brown has bought Amsterdam’s EffectiveBrands marketing consultancy to combine it with its own consultancy operation Millward Brown Optimor. The unit will now be known as Millward Brown Vermeer, the consultancy with a pearl earring presumably. ...

Trust seems to be a growing issue for brand owners. The latest scandal has been the horsemeat saga in burgers. Tesco (left) acted instantly with full page ads in the national press apologising followed up by a further full page ...

And here’s what the survey from WPP’s research company Millward Brown says: This year’s ranking shows that brands are becoming more important to the Chinese consumer. Despite a challenging economic environment, strong brands outperformed their competitors and the broader stock ...

Yes it does, really. BrandZ is WPP and research company Millward Brown’s annual study of the world’s biggest brands, combining financial info and consumer reports. This year’s study shows that 77 per cent of the top 100 have women in ...

Do you remember the ‘hidden persuaders’ and ‘subliminal advertising’ scares of the 1950s and 1960s? Well obviously you don’t (and neither do I but we’ve all all read about them). But the two behemoths of the research world want to ...

Eric Salama, chairman and CEO of WPP’s giant research business Kantar, is also taking over from Pedro Ros as CEO of TNS, the research company WPP bought for £1.1bn in the summer of 2008. Ros, a TNS lifer, is becoming ...