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Omnicom-owned agencies OMD UK, Manning Gottlieb OMD and PHD Group are bringing together their media negotiating operations to form the UK’s largest single buying point. The consolidated buying giant will be called OPera and will have more than £1 billion worth of media billings under its control. It will be run as a joint venture… Continue reading Omnicom Pools Resources To Form UK Buying Point

United Business Media (UBM) is performing ahead of last year and is expected to achieve 15% margin target in 2004. At the company’s Annual General Meeting, chairman, Geoff Unwin said: “2004 has started well. All of our businesses are performing ahead of last year, consistent with the positive trends of the second half of 2003.… Continue reading United Business Media In Line With Target Says Chairman

Trinity Mirror advertising revenues are up by nearly 5% for the first four months of 2004, showing an improving trend in advertising conditions. In a statement issued ahead of today’s Annual General Meeting, chairman, Sir Victor Blank said: “Group advertising revenue for the first four months, on a like for like basis excluding the regional… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Ad Revenues Up 5% As Conditions Improve

Publicis Groupe revenues for quarter one rose by 4.4% to â‚Ź866 million but are still down 4.3% on the same period last year, despite a number of countries demonstrating a solid advertising recovery, says Levy. Latin America experienced the highest organic growth of any individual region with 21%, beaten only by the region ‘rest of… Continue reading Publicis Revenues Fall Despite Solid Ad Recovery

Emap Communications today announced the acquisition of ABI Building Data (ABI) from ICW Publications for £14 million. ABI, who was part of the Springer Science and Business Media group, generated £5 million revenue and £1 million profit in 2003 and is a leading provider of construction sales and marketing information services in the UK. This… Continue reading Emap Builds Business With New Acquisition

Times Newspapers have revealed that losses are expected to reach in excess of £28.6 million this year, up from £16.3 million last year. The group, which publishes The Times and The Sunday Times, revealed the loss when the newspapers’ operating division filed accounts that show, despite a small rise in turnover to £378 million from… Continue reading Tabloid Pushes Times Losses To £28m

Worldwide market research firm, Harris Interactive, has announced that sales booking have reached a record high for quarter three and revenues have increased by 10% to $35.4 million. Worldwide sales bookings accelerated at the end of the quarter to set a record high above $40 million. Robert Knapp, CEO said: “Sales momentum has continued into… Continue reading Record Quarter For Harris Interactive

US based international media group, Pearson, announced ahead of the Annual General Meeting today, that it is currently on target to hit full-year profit forecasts as advertising revenues for flagship newspaper, The Financial Times, recover. Advertising revenues for the newspaper are now level, after being down 4% at the start of March 2004 says Pearson,… Continue reading Recovery For Financial Times Advertising Revenue

UK advertising giant, WPP, today announced that revenues for quarter one 2004 have increased by nearly 6% to £960 million, citing the third consecutive quarter increase for the Group, which includes a 12% rise to UK revenue. The trading update shows that all regions had double-digit revenue growth except for Continental Europe. Asia-Pacific, Latin America,… Continue reading WPP Revenue Up By 6%

Havas today announced that revenue for Q1 2004 has increased by 0.7% to reach â‚Ź357 million, reversing the trend from Q4 2003, when it fell by 3.8%. Most regions with Havas operations experienced organic growth for the quarter, except for North America and the UK, which fell by 3.4% and 4.6% respectively. Although revenue’s declined,… Continue reading Havas Revenues Go Positive But UK And US Still Negative