Marketing Services Financial Intelligence

Final report from "Marketing Services Financial Intelligence" as it closes after 18 years

Two marketing agencies repeat previous top rankings for financial stewardship

Sir Martin Sorrell and his fellow investors who set up his new marketing venture S4 Capital in May this year have made a paper gain of almost £38 million before any material period of trading has taken place.

Mystery continues to surround payments of £12.5 million and £24.2 million made by the US data analysis and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to a related UK company controlled by Alexander Nix, despite enquiries directed to the administrators.

Tops table of publicly listed marketing company share price movements

Three privately-owned UK marketing agencies have won the full complement of eight "plums" for their financial credentials in this year's Private Plums awards, but there was a slight decline in the average number of plums awarded to a company.

New survey of balance sheet vulnerability comments on "Brexit cloud" and economic uncertainty: Companies need a strong and secure foundation of shareholders' funds to weather whatever storms may lie ahead.

But restrictions on scale of awards should avoid dampening entrepreneurial spirit

The UK based global marketing group WPP has decided not to review the value of its 19.5% shareholding in controversial US audience measurement company comScore for the time being, despite a $106m shortfall between its current market value and the value...

The value of WPP's 19.5% shareholding in US audience measurement company comScore fell further today when the Nasdaq stock market suspended trading in comScore shares.