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WPP’s outgoing CFO Paul Richardson (below) has been giving delegates at a conference in Barcelona a peek under the bonnet of the stuttering holding company limo. First off he’s confirmed that WPP plans to sell up to 80 per cent ...

Why don’t we ever like Vodafone ads? Over the years a succession of capable marketing execs and top of the range agencies have had a crack at it and the ads are always – well, not on a par with ...

Much kerfuffle about a memo from WPP financial controller David Barker imposing a hiring freeze on the embattled group’s agencies, hardly a surprise as WPP as battling falling sales and revenues. Apparently WPP was planning to hire about 2,000 people ...

More downsizing is afoot at Ogilvy UK with all staff being offered voluntary redundancy. The agency says this is because it wants to be “transparent” about the changes being made under new group CEO Michael Frohlich which have already seen ...

London agency WCRS is having its best year for decades but, it emerges, owner Engine is planning to consign it to history in another one of those mystifying agency shake-ups aimed at persuading clients they’re getting more from less. Engine, ...

WPP is in advanced talks to buy the Financial Times’s London headquarters at One Southwark Bridge for £93m, continuing the trend of giant centralised HQs in adland. It already has similar operations in Amsterdam and Toronto. At the same time ...

Ogilvy UK CSO Kevin Chesters (below) has quit, hard on the heels of agency CEO Charlie Rudd, Jo Coombs head of OgilvyOne who’s teaming up again with new Publicis Groupe UK country manager Annette King, production head Clare Donald and ...

The number of senior departures from Ogilvy UK is scarcely believable and now CCO Mick Mahoney is the latest to leave. Mahoney (below) follows in the footsteps – doubtless still sizzling Road Runner style – of fellow CCO Emma De ...

Ogilvy UK group CCO Ema de la Fosse (below) is the latest in a series of exits from Ogilvy, not just on this side of the Atlantic as it’s been losing people like topsy in the US too. Maybe its ...