If you’re an ad agency trying to earn money by selling brands to the public – old-fashioned, but true – then it’s rather important to brand yourself in a convincing and reasonable way. Sales promotion agency Billington Cartmell, now seemingly ...
Read More »Sue Douglas and Rupert Howell finally take over Trinity Mirror’s Sunday People – sort of
It started out as a quixotic venture to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Star Sunday, then moved to a mooted £10m bid for Trinity Mirror’s Sunday People (one of those newspapers you’d forgotten had existed). Now it appears that Douglas (left), ...
Read More »Rupert Howell set to be CEO of the People if Sue Douglas consortium raises £10m sale price
Rupert Howell (left), a founder of the HHCL agency, boss of McCann in London and former client sales supremo at ITV, is set to be the CEO of the People tabloid newspaper if Journalist Sue Douglas’s consortium succeeds in raising ...
Read More »HMV goes bust, Sue Douglas tries to buy the People, what’s Easyjet playing at?
**Long-suffering music business HMV has finally toppled into administration as suppliers have refused more credit. It’s all about downloads of course, there aren’t enough old farts (like me) hunting around for CDs. The move follows hard on the heels of ...
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