28 May 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell media empire is set to report 2011 post-tax profits of £40.2m...the acquisition of Channel 5 television from RTL in July 2010 for 99.1m has helped transform Northern Shell's fortunes.
The company generated turnover of 688.8m in the year to 31 December 2011, up 31% from 524.8m ...
in the region of 40% working from a different 2010 revenue figure of 492.6m, which does not include joint ...
28 May 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
, white and blue M&Ms pack, ahead of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations this weekend.....), and will run for four weeks in a media plan handled by MediaCom.
It shows the M M yellow and red brand characters in a lounge, with a street party scene behind them.
Yellow M M is trying on a range of outfits ...
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Mars, which owns brands including M Ms, Skittles, Pedigree, Whiskas, Uncle Ben's and Wrigley ...
28 May 2012
| by Nick Batten
Apple has awarded a $56m (£36m) "golden hello" to John Browett, the former Dixons boss who...The payment consists of free Apple shares, currently worth $562 each, which will be distributed over five years.
Browett was paid around 1m last year for running Dixons' retail chains PC World ...
, Apple's chief executive, passed up $75m in dividend payments he was due to receive in the next decade ...
25 May 2012
| by Sara Kimberley
The Co-operative Group is set to appoint Leo Burnett to handle its £50m advertising account.
24 May 2012
| by Hannah Crown
The global agency, which has held the UK brief since it was a start-up venture in 2003, held onto the 1m account after pitching against GolinHarris, Mischief, and 3 Monkeys.
Splendid will now act as the lead PR and social media agency for Smirnoff vodka across Western Europe. In addition, Edelman has been ...
24 May 2012
| by Katherine Levy
Experian, the online credit-checking service that owns the CreditExpert brand, is reviewing its £6 million media planning and buying account.
24 May 2012
| by Sara Kimberley
The Jordans & Ryvita Company has called a review of its £6 million ad business.
24 May 2012
| by Jeremy Lee
Four weeks shy of the fifth anniversary of their resignation from Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, James Murphy, Ben Priest and David Golding this week found themselves celebrating the sale of their agency to Omnicom, after its chief executive, John Wren, provided his seal of approval.
24 May 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
Arcadia, the retail group owned by Sir Philip Green, is reviewing its £4 million media planning and buying account, currently held by Carat.
24 May 2012
| by Anne Cassidy
Zurich, the insurance company, is conducting a global review of its estimated £100 million advertising account.