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It was pretty clear last June that David Jones’s time as CEO of Havas was up, when majority shareholder Vincent Bollore promoted son Yannick to chairman of the business and other son Cyrille to be his number two at family-owned ...

Well, well, the world’s most famous marketer, General Motors global CMO Joel Ewanick (left), instigator of the Commonwealth agency for Chevrolet and the decision to award all the company’s $3bn global media budget to Carat, has ‘resigned.’ Not that he ...

It’s no great surprise that James Murdoch has chosen to resign as chairman of British pay-TV company BSkyB in the wake of the phone-hacking and other scandals at his dad’s News Corporation (39 per cent owner of BSkyB). James has ...

Steve Bond, COO of Aegis-owned out of home agency Posterscope, resigned in a rush today. Bond (pictured), who’s been at Posterscope for 19 years, was one of the most powerful people in the UK out of home sector and, via ...

Omnicom-owned TBWA Worldwide has won GlaxoSmithKline’s $100m Aquafresh toothpaste creative account from WPP’s Grey and is set to manage the account from London. GSK is one of Grey’s biggest global accounts. GSK hired Omnicom media shop PHD to handle its ...

A few eyebrows shot into the stratosphere when Rupert Murdoch biographer and Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff took the editorial helm at Adweek a year ago and now Mike is on his way after a turbulent year. First he shifted ...

Steve Jobs’ decision to step down as CEO of Apple aged 56 is hardly a surprise but it’s still a shock. Jobs, who founded the company before being kicked out and coming back to rescue it with the launch if ...

News International CEO Rebekah Brooks resigned today, as we forecast she would have to do weeks ago. The unfortunate Mrs Brooks, one of PM David Cameron’s closest chums, now faces a formidable monstering by serried politicians (next Tuesday, for starters), ...