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...GroupM is one of the world’s largest media buying and planning agencies, with 42,000 employees and $60bn of global media billings — the amount charged to clients — last year....
...But the performances are great, particularly from Zachary Hart as the funny, dopey Billing and Jessica Brown Findlay as the long-suffering Katharina. And Smith is terrific....
...Billings from clients were down 7 per cent at £450.3mn....
...Revenues at the advertising agency were almost a fifth lower year on year at £245.9mn, while billings from clients were down 7 per cent at £450.3mn....
...The FTC alleges that its “pay-to-play” adverts force sellers to spend more for top billing....
...helen.thomas@ft.com...
...The deal values the business, which generates more than $1bn in client billings, at eight times more than its last fundraising four years ago....
...helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...
...Vivendi has invested more than €4bn in building its stake in TIM since 2015, billing it initially as a strategy to create a media champion in southern Europe....
...Now the company has to live up to its billing....
...“But in Warwick Square, it was triple hung on quite a narrow wall, not singled out with a light shining on it,” notes Robinson of Kime’s propensity to give expensive pieces equal billing with less valuable...
...It has been adept at picking winners, developing close relationships with groups like Thoma Bravo and Vista before they became the giants with over $100bn in assets under management that they are today....
...While its famous parties and “man burn” were respectively cancelled and delayed, Burning Man did live up to its billing....
...“Omnichannel” remains the favourite retail buzzword but it will become ever-harder to live up to the billing. helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...
...“Their billings will increase very substantially especially in the first year as law firms learn the ropes.”...
...Victoria Billings, director of marketing at the boiler manufacturer Worcester Bosch, on Tuesday welcomed the government consultation, which runs until March 21....
...Also generating excitement is a soon-to-launch butter from British chef Thomas Straker, whose butter-related content on TikTok turned him into a star....
...There’s also the temptation of what Williams describes as the “biggest drug of all” — the spotlight — as stardom and equal billing fight it out....
...But Wilson may have to yield top billing in his own biography because the third name is that of Sir Keir Starmer who endorses “Harold Wilson in his rightful place”....
...In late 2022, Germany’s domestic intelligence chief, Thomas Haldenwang, put it well: “Russia is the storm,” he told German parliamentarians. “China is climate change.”...
...Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, called it “a major test of our disposable, knock-it-down and rebuild attitude, [with] potentially far-reaching consequences for construction and development...
...Ecotricity founder Dale Vince said the group had experienced difficulties with a new billing system but that an upgrade would be rolled out in six weeks....
...Gross billings for action figures rose almost 50 per cent before currency effects, driven by the Jurassic World and Lightyear films, but sales of its American Girl dolls fell 19 per cent....
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