Tag Archives: PR

The dog that hasn’t barked yet as the marcoms world inches back to post-pandemic normality is M&A, the big deals that everyone expects but which haven’t, so far, happened. WPP, once the busiest acquirer, has pulled in its horns during ...

Sir Martin Sorrell (below) seems to have made a new brigade of enemies by branding PR as, inter alia, defined by “press releases,” (fair enough), “gin-soaked lunches” (didn’t have too many of those pre-lockdown) and “analogue” (has this man no ...

Irish PR company Drury Porter Novelli paid owner Omnicom a handsome dividend of €1.5m last year, even though umbrella company Drury Communications posted a €1.1m loss – due to €1.5m in ‘exceptional items’ – according to a report in the ...

Mark Regev, the spokesman the Israel government wheels out when things get really hot, has been on the airwaves recently as various bodies, including the United Nations, despair of Israel’s ruthless assault on the Palestinians in Gaza. Here he is ...

There’s a new kid on the block in the global marcoms stakes and it’s China’s BlueFocus, capitalised in China at $3.7bn. Now the PR and digital company has bought a majority stake (82.8 per cent) in the UK’s We Are ...

With the Ed Miliband/Daily Mail saga running in to its third week it poses a very interesting question about being careful what you wish for. The delicate balance between the interests of politicians and the media has become a road ...

What’s the biggest, most successful, company you’ve never heard of? Impossible to say, of course. But a good candidate would be Aberdeen Asset Management. It’s in the FTSE100; it’s genuinely global. And it’s very profitable indeed, judging from its latest ...

He’s a veritable babbling (or burbling) brook that Martin Sorrell. This morning he was on the airwaves again; promoting (or defending) WPP’s first quarter results and referring inter-alia to a world economy with a ‘corrugated’ bottom, bumps here and there ...

First up Huntsworth boss Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer as was) says he wanted to buy leading Chinese PR firm Blue Focus. But now BF, led by Oscar Zhao (left), has, in effect, turned the tables by buying 19.8 per cent ...