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 John Reynolds
to more than 100m this year.
According to Daintith, revenues across Associated s consumer division are set to hit 150m by next year.
DMGT's financial figures reveal that in the six months to April 1, revenues at its digital-only consumer businesses grew by 15% to 41m.
The division is expecetd to grow ...
25 May 2012
| by Sara Luker
caught up in a separate case involving TUPE proceedings when the agency won a 1m Boots consumer PR ...
25 May 2012
| by John Reynolds
The broadcaster has been awarded the rights for three seasons after it bid 179.7m, the Premier League said today (25 May).
The highlights package includes the Saturday evening 'Match of the Day' ('MOTD') programme, the Sunday morning repeat and 'MotD2' on Sunday evenings.
It is unclear which ...
25 May 2012
| by John Reynolds
Last week, the NBA became the first major sports league in the world to top 5m Twitter followers ...
260m people follow it on Facebook and Twitter.
However, basketball is still a comparative minnow ...
England, an average of 151,500 people play basketball at least once a week, compared with more than 2.1m ...
25 May 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
s Lucozade Sport; ITV2; H M; Mercedes; EA Games' 'Mass Effect 3', and Morrisons.
Richard Brooke ...
25 May 2012
| by Sara Luker
and consumer sectors. From July to December 2011 UK consumers spent 292.5m on daily deal websites, saving, on average, 56 per cent on their purchases, or 375m. Competition is fierce however, with 70 active daily ...
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 Media Bitch
in spades, if his delivery of the 12m Post Office media account to the WPP agency earlier this year ...