‘It’s a feeding frenzy’: US consultancy scoops up dozens of senior Global Counsel staff Business A little-known American advisory firm is poised to hire up to a quarter of Global Counsel’s senior leadership team, amid a “feeding frenzy” that has broken out for top staff left jobless by the ignominious collapse of the Peter Mandelson-founded lobbying group. Washington-headquartered Capstone expects to confirm as many as 20 senior hires in the [...]
WPP sells majority stake in FGS Global to KKR as group growth flounders Media WPP also reported its interim results in a separate announcement. Despite flat revenue at £7.2bn, there was a 2.6 per cent drop on a like-for-like basis.
Alastair Campbell’s PR agency holds back bonuses after Qatar’s late payment Public relations A top London PR agency that counts Alastair Campbell as a senior consultant was forced to delay its staff bonuses after the Qatari government was late paying millions of pounds of fees.