Since the beginning of the year my partners Tony and Andrew, as well as myself, have been commenting on a busy M&A market. However, more...
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One of the most astonishing things about those two titans of the advertising world, Publicis’ Maurice Levy and WPP founder Sir Martin...
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If I were to ask you for a list of the most dynamic advertising markets in the world, chances are that Mauritius would not be among them....
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This month there has been a deal that piqued my interest - the acquisition by London’s Next 15 Communications of US-based public affairs...
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The past month has been relatively quiet on the deals front – why this is, it’s hard to say - perhaps it has something to do with the...
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Business, they say, is a lot like life – and so it is. In life, particularly at times of crisis or upheaval, it is not the strongest, or...
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When Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer announced a complete ban on working at home last month, she sparked uproar in the media. And, if the...
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The title for our particular section of the Drum is “Mergers & Acquisitions”. Thus far, most of our blog posts have been about...
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We don’t write about direct marketing very often, or its close relative, customer relationship management (or more commonly, CRM).
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Today (Friday 2nd March) sees marketing services giant WPP unveil its latest set of results. These are being considered elsewhere on The...
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A notable trend on the mergers and acquisitions scene over the past year or so has been the acquisition of marketing agencies (or at...
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about "zombie companies", the living dead of developed capitalism. For those not familiar with the term...
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Once again, most of the recent acquisition activity has been out in the margins, rather than the mainstream. That’s partly because there...
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First off this week, I wanted to throw a thought out there, prompted by the sad news last week that HMV, the sole remaining High Street...
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Last week, my colleague Tony Walford talked about how mobile, data and other niche services would be what acquirers would be looking for...
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In this, the first of our blogs for 2013, we’re going to take a look back at the past 12 months to see if we can get a feel for what the...
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To any old-school ad creative, there’s not much to be said for data. It’s really boring, they’ll tell you, especially when you compare a...
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It's a familiar ritual for the less organised among us. We put off our Christmas shopping and leave ourselves open to last-minute panic...
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The first of the deals we’re going to look at this week involved the Norwich-based (what is it about Norwich at the moment? – see...
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In Drum blog posts past, my Green Square colleague Tony Walford has spoken about the appeal of niche marcomms companies – operating in...
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