In executive moves, Ford marketer Matt VanDyke, currently head of sales & marketing for its prestige Lincoln brand, is transferring to Europe as regional VP, marketing for the Ford business. Robert Parker

its three main agencies dedicated to global client Ford to form a single entity named Global Team Blue, or GTB. This becomes the biggest team agency out of WPP's 48 such dedicated agencies, combining

Ford reported strong results for 2015, with revenues climbing by 4% to $149.6bn. Pretax profits hit a record high of $10.8bn, but a large tax charge and other one-off items resulted in net income of $

the VW Golf overtook Ford's Focus to become the world's second best-selling car for the first time, with sales up almost 9% to a personal best of 1.04m units. It was one of only two models to shift more

well ahead of Ford on 2.6m. Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Honda and Nissan held the next four places, and the rest of the top 15 ranking remained unchanged with one exception: Volkswagen slipped back from 10th

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