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Archive for 2008
Naked deal riddle:Aussies imply price multiple was below 7
Photon Group, the acquisitive publicly listed Australian marketing services business, is being coy about the multiple of historic profit before interest and tax (“EBIT”) it has paid as the... Read more
Loewy surprises with massive loss of £15 million in 2007
Loewy Group lost a massive £14.8 million in the year 2007, according to its accounts. Much of the loss arose from the accounting treatment of the group's ambitious acquisition programme and a... Read more
Creston share slide blamed on “market nervousness”
Shares in Creston slumped to 76.25p this month from a peak of 202.5p a year ago and are now below the 88.5p price at which they were traded when Don Elgie arrived to transform the former property... Read more
Engine passes on cost of Fuel
The £17.3 million purchase price paid by The Engine Group for direct marketing agency Partners Andrews Aldridge (“PAA”) and its associated company Fuel Data Strategies will be augmented by any... Read more
Charlie Hoult surrenders Loewy CEO role
Charlie Hoult's surrender of the chief executive's chair at Loewy Group on realisation that it is not his natural role in a 400-employee business leaves open the question of whether the decision was... Read more
Media Square debt steady despite loss
Media Square, the AIM listed marketing services group that has been reorganised by incoming executive chairman Roger Parry, incurred a loss of £25.6 million last year after incurring exceptional... Read more
GfK shareholders expect WPP to kill its TNS merger plan
The announcement on 3 June of terms for the planned merger between German research group GfK and the UK’s Taylor Nelson Sofres failed to ignite even a flicker of enthusiasm among GfK... Read more
GfK acquires a minnow while pining for TNS
While grappling with the master plan to merge with Taylor Nelson Sofres, German research group GfK has spent a more modest sum acquiring control of the UKbased specialist researcher Chart-Track.... Read more
