Tom Ford, MAC and others. Hudis is responsible for the group's other key brand Clinique as well as other luxury skincare products including La Mer, Darphin, Origins and Aveda. The new duties for Hudis

which represents Ford, Peugeot, Land Rover and BMW as well as other marques across the region. CVS and Sime Darby both transfer from Mindshare. In other assignments, KPMG consolidated global creative

to $37bn on currencies. Ford too had a great quarter, with net earnings up 44% to $1.9bn, and its biggest quarterly profit from automotive operations sicen 2000. A key element in all three companies'

Its Calgary office now operates under the banner of Ford agency Blue Hive. Francophone agency Saint-Jacques Vallee Y&R in Montreal will be the last outpost of the main Y&R brand. MDC Partners has launched

Ford's UK chairman & managing director Mark Ovenden is returning to Russia to head up the Ford Sollers joint venture. Ovenden headed Ford Russia before moving to the UK. he is replaced at Ford of Britain

Ford reported declines on the previous year's dynamic performance. Total volumes slipped back marginally to 6.32m vehicles, and revenues declined 2% to $144bn. Net income more than halved from the previous

In other marketer moves, Ford named Mark LaNeve, a former marketing chief at GM and Allstate, as its new SVP, US sales, marketing & service. LaNeve left GM after its bankruptcy filing in 2009 to join

US giants Ford and Chevrolet maintain their positions at #3 and #4, but Chevrolet suffered a near-5% decline to 4.79m, compared with Ford's 1% climb to 5.81m. Chevrolet's slump, the result of its withdrawal

The company also works for Ford and Kraft, among others. In the news this past week: Agencies Bartle Bogle Hegarty lost its stewardship of Diageo's Johnnie Walker whisky after a 15-year partnership.

as creative director following the departure of Tom Ford and chief executive Domenico de Sole a decade ago, and in fact sales of the Gucci brand soared in the first few years under her command. More recently