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Diverted Boulton makes safe landing at Nationwide
James Boulton, the ex-HSBC marketing director and brother of Sky TV presenter, Adam, has finally landed at Nationwide after a bizarre mini-Odyssey involving British Airways. In circumstances still not...
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Why HSBC £40m fine over mis-selling scandal gives marketing a bad name
Chris Barraclough is right. While the marketing community obsesses about Marks & Spencer lingerie ads, Size Zero models, Twitter trending and the monetisation of Facebook, it is almost entirely...
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Poor old Diamond Bob – a martyr to Barclays’ brand values
A lot of people are accusing Barclays Bank and its chief executive Bob Diamond of racketeering. Acting like white-collar gangsters, in other words. They say the bank and its principal directors...
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Big is beastly, especially if we’re talking big banks like Barclays
Which brands make us most angry? Yes, you guessed correctly. The big ones that rip us off, starve us of mortgage funds, pilfer our savings and behave with amoral disregard for everyone’s interest but...
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Nick Brien ousted from McCann but what exactly has IPG brought in to replace...
Harris Diamond – who’s he? The new chairman and chief executive of McCann Worldgroup, replacing Nick Brien as of last night – that’s who. Brien’s position has long since looked untenable – to all, that...
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HSBC’s £400m global review that never was
So, what was all that about? HSBC’s group marketing director Chris Clark calls a review of the “£400m” (actually rather less these days) global account late last year. Well, not exactly a review. More...
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