Tag Archives: Rupert Howell

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

**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 ...

Only as non-exec chairman mind but no doubt Howell’s contacts book and boundless optimism (Howell was a founder of HHCL, marketing boss of ITV and head of McCann in the UK) will prove useful to Billington Cartmell Group’s new owners ...

A couple of days ago we reported on the plan by former adman Rupert Howell and journalist Sue Douglas to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Star Sunday, a move that seemed odd in the extreme as newspapers are hardly booming in ...

Sue Douglas, who used to be a big noise at the Sunday Times and then at Conde Nast, and Rupert Howell (left), one of the H’s in HHCL and then the boss of McCann Europe and the chief salesman at ...

John Lewis agency Adam & Eve, bought for £60m by Omnicom yesterday, seems to have executed a reverse takeover of flagging DDB London as the Adam & Eve-ites have emerged firmly on top in the merged agency’s management. The three ...

This is the second extract adapted from Paul Simons’ book Day 1 to Day 2555 (or 7 years in the life of an advertising agency). Here Paul explains how he went about choosing the right team to start successful London ...