top US marketer Vinay Shahani to global arch-rival Toyota. Shahani becomes VP, integrated marketing operations at the Japanese giant, reporting to VP, marketing Ed Laukes. Shahani's fulltime successor

to 2.52m cars, while Toyota regained the lead with almost 5% uplift to 2.59m. Close behind both groups, though, was Renault-Nissan, which reported a spectacular 11.5% rise in registrations to 2.3m units.

Toyota, Volkswagen, McDonald's, the UK Government, the BBC, Marks & Spencer and L'Oreal had suspended their advertising. So too did the UK media buying division of Havas on behalf of all its local clients.

Toyota "Reflections" by The & Partnership Campari "Killer In Red" by Paolo Sorrentino & JWT Italia What a week for great ads! This first is already our pick of the year to-date. No media personality

and a promise from Toyota to boost US investment by as much as $10bn, other carmakers have scrambled to follow suit. This week, GM announced an additional investment of $1bn in the US, including the transfer

putting its slightly ahead of Toyota, flat at 9.95m. Combined sales of 8.51m vehicles put Renault-Nissan in 3rd place, with Hyundai-Kia 4th at 8.18m. US groups GM and Ford came 5th and 6th respectively,

at 2.24m, and despite a strong final month Toyota too was down 2% over the year as a whole to 2.45m. The single biggest decline was suffered by BMW, down by just under 10%, compared to a fall of just

Customers include Toyota, Volkswagen Group, Fiat Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Harman will continue to operate as a separate unit under the Samsung umbrella. Samsung Electronics' chief strategy officer

Saatchi and parent Publicis Groupe, Toyota has transferred its entire European integrated business into WPP-aligned CHI & Partners. Saatchi and CHI have been fierce rivals for the Toyota account for much

Link and that Toyota - Dentsu's most important global client - was among the accounts affected. A subsequent statement from Dentsu admitted the error, which it said included over-billing on bought media,