not least newer entrants Amazon and Google. Revenues for the year to May 2019 hit a new high of $39.5bn but have risen by less than 3% in six years. Tax cuts allowed net income to top $10bn for the first

Or maybe it's time for Amazon to jump back into the sector with a big buyout. Adbrands Daily Update 24th Jan 2019: UPS moved the bulk of its global creative account back to The Martin Agency after almost

HBC of Canada and even Amazon have cropped up as possible suitors though no deal has materialised. In the mean time, the group announced plans to shutter around 125 of its less productive stores, mainly

as well as the new threat from Amazon's Whole Foods. The heritage business in the Netherlands and Belgium would no doubt be spun off. Kroger and Ahold responded to media inquiries with a no comment rather

it forged a partnership in 2019 with Amazon to allow the latter's customers to return unwanted orders for free via their local Kohl's store. Kohl's reported revenues of just under $20.0bn in 2019 with

Adbrands Daily Update 11th Jun 2019: Amazon was named King of the Castle for the first time in the latest annual Brandz ranking of the World's Most Valuable Brands from WPP's Kantar. A 52% increase lifted

after Initiative retained Amazon's $1bn global media account following review. Yet that also appears to have resulted in yet another blow for struggling MEC, which appears to have lost its share of the

generation of technology services providers led by Amazon and Google. IBM has compensated by pushing into new areas, not least cloud computing, artifical intelligence, data security, blockchain and digital

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and even increasingly from Amazon. Google has attempted to broaden its reach by moving into hardware - primarily mobile handsets and Chromebook PCs - but results have been patchy. In 2011, it took steps