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Ofcom moves into line of fire

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Secretly, Ofcom may be rather relieved that the Barclay brothers have (apparently) done a pre-emptive deal with Conrad Black to buy the Telegraph. After all, the other two front-runners for the prize – DMGT, which owns the Mail and Mail on Sunday, and Richard Desmond’s Express Newspapers – would have set the fledgling uber-regulator a […]

MediaCom on track for £64m global Wella brief

Marketing Week

MediaCom is poised to win the £64m global Wella media account after the haircare company shifted its European business to the agency, from Omnicom-owned BBDO. The UK business is held by PHD. A spokeswoman for Germany-based Wella confirms that MediaCom has been handed the company’s retail business in Europe. She refuses to comment on the […]

It’s not a lads’ mag

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“It’s not a lads’ mag; it’s a men’s mag.” So said IPC Ignite! managing director Tim Brooks in this magazine last week. Perhaps he’s right, but either way it appears to be staffed by overgrown children. To celebrate a round of promotions at IPC Ignite (no, you can’t have that preposterous exclamation mark twice in […]