Jim Kirk

With Cordiant Communications Group, the world's ninth-largest advertising company, watching clients virtually running away, attention is now turning to who might be a likely suitor, or whether the parent of...

Here's one key difference between Lifetime, the magazine, and Lifetime, the cable network: No mention of the "Golden Girls" in the premiere issue of the newest women's magazine launch. That's...

American Airlines forced out its embattled chief executive Thursday as the world's largest carrier worked frantically to placate flight attendants and avoid bankruptcy. But it remained unclear whether the departure...

From stocks and socks to airplanes and a possible bankruptcy. Former Sears, Roebuck and Co. CEO and native Chicagoan Edward Brennan is in the spotlight once again after being named...

After eight years, Mrs. T's is out of the Chicago Triathlon. Insert Accenture's name instead. Ending what could have been a protracted search for a title sponsor of what is...

McDonald's Corp. will test at least two different advertising approaches in the hopes of finding one that will resonate with consumers and entice them to come back to the beleaguered...

As far as advertising blunders go, Midas' ad last year for its lifetime guarantee, which showed an elderly woman flashing a Midas technician and saying "So what can you do...

For years, a fairly consistent stable of public affairs firms flourished--and became quite comfortable--in Chicago thanks to the cozy relationships built up with key Republican officials in Springfield. But with...

No surprise that one of the smarter beer marketing ploys isn't coming from a brewer that thinks it's poking fun at the way men think by featuring two babes wrestling...

If fans of "American Idol" thought the red Coca-Cola sofa was a little obvious, you have to wonder how viewers of "Protagonistas de Novela 2" are going to take to...