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• Media Square's new boss takes drastic action.

  - 2007-11-20

  Media Square's new chairman is aiming to turn the company around Nigel Bolitho One day Media Square will be a case study for aspiring MBAs on how not to expand a business. It joined Aim as a shell in 2000 and, within five years,...

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• Media Square warns on profits.(Financial report)

  - 2007-09-05

  Media Square has warned on profits, but this time the problems are not of management's own making Shunil Roy-Chaudhuri Media Square says that full-year earnings look set to be below expectations. This is largely due to lower spending from a German client...

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• All change at Media Square.

  - 2007-07-04

  Media Square continues to suffer from growing pains, and there have been some big changes at the top. Shunil Roy-Chaudhuri The game of musical chairs continues at Media Square. Kelvin MacKenzie stepped down as non-executive chairman shortly after the year-end and, now, Jeremy Middleton...

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• Media Square rejects [pound]45m offer

  - 2006-10-18

  Sir Peter Burt, the chairman of ITV who fought off a private equity bid for the broadcaster earlier this year, has seen his bid for the marketing services group Media Square rejected as an attempt by private equity to buy the business on the cheap. Sir Peter's...

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• MEDIA SQUARE (MSQ).

  - 2006-07-28

  Although still far from being the finished article, Media Square is getting there. It has been transformed by its GBP63m acquisition of Marketing Services Group MSG, and some considerable reorganisation. For example, 80 per cent of the group's UK marketing communications division is now made...

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• The Investment Column: Marketing company Media Square looks set for

  - 2005-06-24

  Media Square is a smallish but ambitious company in the marketing field. It has grown rapidly through acquisition, pulling off 12 deals in the past two years. It has two divisions: marketing communications, which provides PR and services on the creative side of 'below the line' advertising...

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• Media Square moots AI for Arnold rebrand

  - 2004-10-07

  Marketing communications group Media Square plans to rebrand Arnold Interactive as AI, following its 600,000 [pounds sterling] acquisition of the agency last week. The firm isn't allowed to keep the Arnold name, which is owned by the Havas Group, as it has only acquired the Arnold Interactive London...

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• Media Square buys Coutts Holdings

  - 2004-09-11

  THE FAST-GROWING marketing and communications group Media Square, which is listed on the AIM market, yesterday identified itself as the buyer of Coutts Holdings, the promotions to packaging group that announced it had received a bid approach this week. Media Square's bid values Coutts at nearly pounds 22m. Derbyshire-based Media...

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• Media Square plans pounds 10.6m spree

  - 2004-06-09

  MEDIA SQUARE, the marketing services company, said it planned to spend its entire pounds 10.6m cash pile by the end of this year. The company reported a near-doubling of operating profits to pounds 434,951 for the six months to 30 April. Jeremy Middleton, the chief executive, said that as the...

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• Media Square brings in 10 investors for acquisitions

  - 2003-09-18

  Media Square, the AIM-listed marketing firm, has brought in 10 new institutional investors as it prepares for a period of acquisitions and growth. The company, which develops both on and offline marketing campaigns, has raised 3m [pounds sterling] from City institutions and others. It's hoping the funds will...

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