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Omnicom is upping the ante in the production wars by bringing its in-house production units into a new operation eg+ worldwide. Eg+ was formed by the merger of New York’s E-Graphics and Hub Plus last year. Omnicom cals the new ...

Boutique corporate advisory firm Ciesco has produced its summary of the big four holding companies’ first half 2015 results and the outlook for the rest of the year and beyond. While all of them grew in the first half of ...

*Leo Burnett in the States has lost Special K in the US to JWT, which will please people at WPP Towers in London’s Mayfair, already gung-ho following a triumphant WPP performance at Cannes. Kellogg’s’ Special K is one of those ...

Omnicom had a pretty good year in 2014, escaping from the mooted $35bn merger with Publciis Groupe in rather better order than Publicis did and growing revenue by 5.7 per cent and net income by 11 per cent. The shares ...

WPP, the world’s biggest advertising group headed by Sir Martin Sorrell (left), has reported a mixed bag for 2014 in its annual results. Profit exceeded £1.5bn for the first time (£1.51bn, up 3.7 per cent) but like-for-like sales growth (organic ...

There still seems to be no sign of a resolution of the airtime dispute between Omnicom media buying company Opera and Channel 5. Which is odd because when WPP’s GroupM fell out with Channel 4 a couple of years ago ...

‘The Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Night-Time’ is a highly successful novel and a play by Mark Haddon, dealing, among other things, with Asperger’s Syndrome and autism. But the expression comes from a Sherlock Holmes story, ‘Silver Blaze,’ ...

By Gordon Montgomery And so the Five Kingdoms of the advertising world continue their battle for supremacy. Still showing little sign of desiring to give up power, the ageing kings, Martin Sorrell of House WPP, John Wren of House Omnicom, ...

Agency AMV/BBDO is taking us on a trip down a murky alley in Southwark for some entertainment courtesy of Pepsi Max (the location may be an in-joke as AMV is to take up in residence in the same area of ...