How the world's top ad agencies aligned to fix prices in IndiaTop ad agency executives in India, including from WPP, Omnicom, and Dentsu, secretly coordinated pricing via WhatsApp and meetings, forming...
19 Jun, 2025, 10.25 AM IST
Rise of small brands in India: Just downtrading or something more?In India's FMCG market, small and regional brands are growing faster than large companies due to downtrading and consumers' willingness to ...
26 Mar, 2025, 12.53 PM IST
TCS retains top position as India's most valuable brand: StudyTata Consultancy Services (TCS) has retained its top position as India's most valuable brand for the second year in a row, with a brand val...
29 Sep, 2023, 12.30 AM IST
Microsoft, Google beat quarterly revenue estimates; fake social media influencers put companies in a spotTech titans Google-parent Alphabet and Microsoft announced better-than-expected earnings on Tuesday, propelled by a cloud- and AI-backed wa...
26 Jul, 2023, 08.29 PM IST
WPP India arm paid $1 million bribe to bag, keep government business: US SECWPP, the world's largest advertising group, has agreed to pay $19.2 million in penalties and disgorgement to US Securities & Exchange Commi...
25 Sep, 2021, 06.40 AM IST
WPP’s Indian subsidiary bribed officials to retain business: US SECWPP implemented an aggressive acquisition strategy to grow its business. As part of its acquisition strategy, WPP acquired a controlling in...
24 Sep, 2021, 10.48 PM IST
Google parent Alphabet reaches record quarterly revenue, profit in ad boomShares of Alphabet, the world's largest provider of search and video ads, rose 3.3% in extended trading after the results, which handily be...
28 Jul, 2021, 09.44 AM IST
Wellness day-offs: India Inc is making sure its employees get a break from non-stop workConcerned that working without timeoffs is taking a toll on its workforce amid the Covid-19 pandemic, some of the biggest companies in the ...
12 Sep, 2020, 10.37 AM IST
Indians consumed less groceries but shelled out moreThe average basket size in the year ended September 2018 was 222 kg while it dropped 3% to 217 kg in 2019.
27 Dec, 2019, 08.34 AM IST
Mark Read Emerges as Front-Runner for WPP’s Top PostWPP is likely to make an announcement about Sorrell’s permanent replacement in September.
20 Aug, 2018, 11.49 PM IST
ET GBS 2018: Brands have been under investing in the last two decades, says Irwin Gotlieb, GroupMAs a result of this under investments, millennials and centennials today don't have the same kind of love for brands.
24 Feb, 2018, 09.13 PM IST
need2know: 10 macro triggers that should matter for market todayUnion housing minister Hardeep Puri on Tuesday said property transactions would be linked to Aadhaar soon.
22 Nov, 2017, 07.51 AM IST
The 25 best-performing CEOs in the worldThe Harvard Business Review has released its list of the 100 best-performing CEOs on the planet.
13 Oct, 2015, 05.13 PM IST
Piyush is not Dead Yet. Neither am I, says WPP chief Sir Martin SorrellOn being questioned about the succession plan for both Pandey and him (since he’s 70 himself), Sorrell says, “We have succession plans acro...
30 Jun, 2015, 05.30 AM IST
- Infosys' growth pangs: Founders need to let go of their continuing influence?
The desire to maintain higher profit margins is built into the Infosys DNA and the founders are prepared to defend that stoically.
15 May, 2012, 11.22 AM IST
Niira Radia's PR exit: Business that's attracting plenty of foreign capital but needs smart ideasRadia exited PR biz this week. But the biz hasn't exited Radiagate. ET on Sunday takes a look at a biz that's attracting foreign capital bu...
06 Nov, 2011, 12.37 PM IST
- Corporate raiders and their arc
LN Mittal’s five-month-long war of nerves to acquire Arcelor and eventual success have aroused interest in other corporate raiders who’ve p...
27 Jun, 2006, 02.02 AM IST