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 ...