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Archive for 2002
Creston profit yields low return on buys
Creston, the quoted marketing services group that Don Elgie created by reversing into a former property company, reported a posttax profit of £138,000 for the first full year in its new... Read more
Publicis claims its accounting is without fault in wake of Omnicom controversy
It may seem rather surprising to hear the chief executive of a company say “we apply accounting rules strictly” just after filing figures with the US Securities & Exchange Commission that... Read more
Publicis offers multiple of 115 to acquire underperforming B|com3
In a repeat performance of its pricey Saatchi & Saatchi takeover, French-based Publicis is offering to pay a very high multiple of 115 times historic post-tax profits for B|com3 to secure a place... Read more
Aegis renames its research business
Aegis Group has distanced itself from the research activities it has built up in recent years by rebranding them Synovate instead of Aegis Research. Although the research operations now represent 35%... Read more
Loan note structure aids Omnicom’s profits – but starts credit rating alert
Fast on the heels of the dramatic slump in Omnicom Group’s share price, the world’s largest marketing services group has ben warned that its credit rating may be downgraded by Standard &... Read more
Brunswick PR group shy about figures
Companies owned by various Alan Parker offshore trusts billed other Parker-owned Brunswick group companies over £8 million in the year to 28 February 2001. But the true scale of Parker’s public... Read more
Stripped Naked of its capital
Naked Communications, the media consultancy in which Mother Holdings has a 25% interest through its Daughter Investments subsidiary, included £200,000 of share capital in its balance sheet at 31... Read more
Publicis in urgent fight to make B|com3 deal pay as Dentsu suffers share loss
The sudden closure of the D’Arcy network is the first sign of how urgently Publicis Groupe is addressing the need to create swift and sizeable profits from its expensive $2.3 billion investment in... Read more
Income stabilises but currency moves hurt
WPP Group’s revenue figures for the third quarter of 2002 suggest that the period of decline may be coming towards an end and that a more stable business environment may lie ahead. Revenue was up... Read more
