S4 Capital tiptoes into data analysis with Brightblue

WPP announced its half year 2020 results this morning (teacher’s A-level grade B+) so pinging into the inbox is an announcement from S4 Capital, now home to WPP founder Sir Martin Sorrell. Sorrell’s S4 – which now styles itself a “tech-led, new age, new era digital advertising and marketing services …

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Sage chairman to retire next year

Sir Donald Brydon is to step down as chairman of Sage Group in September 2021.  His retirement is in line with the UK Corporate Governance Code requirement for a chair to step down after nine years on the board. Brydon became chairman in 2012, the same year he joined the …

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The Monocle Minute

But new data from the UK's Royal Mail suggests that consumers are wising up: although online purchases have soared since the beginning of the … Source link

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70 jobs lost as pandemic kills events business

The show won’t go on for event production business MCLCreate after it was forced to close with the loss of 71 jobs. The £10m-turnover company collapsed into administration as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. MCLCreate was based in Birmingham and had depots in Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow. It had …

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Letters of Russian duchess who escaped 1918 execution for sale

Letters from a surviving member of the Russian royal family expressing her ‘hatred’ of the British for not protecting her murdered relatives have emerged for sale for £70,000. The correspondence took place between Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and her sister the Grand Duchess Xenia between 1916 and 1920. Olga’s older …

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