Sears Holdings Corp. posted a third-quarter net loss of $421 million, the company reported Nov. 17. Sears brand domestic comparable store sales declined 0.7% and subsidiary Kmart's comparable store sales declined 0.9%.
LinkedIn's marketing products generated $40.1 million in revenue for the third quarter, a 113% increase compared with the prior year, the company said Nov. 3. The segment delivered 29% of LinkedIn's total revenue for the quarter, which rose 126% to $139.5 million.
The Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) reported revenue of $1.73 billion for the third quarter of 2011, an 8.7% growth increase compared with Q3 2010.
Office Depot's sales for the third quarter of 2011 decreased 2% to $2.8 billion compared with the third quarter of 2010, the company reported on Oct. 25.
Agency holding company Publicis Groupe reported $1.9 billion in revenue in the third quarter, a 6.4% increase compared with the previous year. Its North American business, which accounted for 49% of Publicis' overall revenue, generated $947 million, up 5.5% year-over-year, according to an earnings report released Oct. 20.
Omnicom Group's third-quarter net income increased 16.7% to $203.7 million compared with the third quarter of 2010, the company said Oct. 18. The holding company's worldwide revenue increased 12.9% to $3.4 billion compared with the same quarter last year.
The Interpublic Group of Companies' second-quarter revenue increased 4.7% organically, compared with the prior year, to $1.74 billion. The holding company's Integrated Agency Network segment, which includes agencies McCann Worldgroup, Draftfcb, Lowe & Partners and Mediabrands, saw second-quarter revenue growth of 3.9% to $1.47 billion.
July 27, 2011
Marketing services company Acxiom Corp. named Scott Howe CEO and president on July 27, prior to its fiscal first quarter 2012 earnings call. The Little Rock, Ark.-based company reported a 6.9% year-over-year revenue increase to $288.9 million in the period.
Amazon.com reported a net sales increase of 51% in the second quarter to $9.9 billion, compared with the second quarter of 2010. Marketing expenses increased 61.6% to $341 million in Q2 for the Seattle-based e-commerce company.
Salesforce.com reported $504.3 million in revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2012, a 34% year-over-year increase. The company saw $254 million in sales and marketing expenses in the period, a 46% increase compared with fiscal Q1 2011.
Experian said May 18 that full-year fiscal 2011 revenue for its marketing services business increased 14% to $791 million, compared with fiscal 2010. US marketing services revenue grew 11% year-over-year to $367 million. Overall Experian fiscal 2011 revenue increased 8% organically to $4.2 billion, compared with fiscal 2010.
JCPenney Co. reported May 16 that its Internet sales increased 6.6% to $376 million in the first quarter of 2011, compared with Q1 2010. The Plano, Texas-based company's first quarter net sales increased 0.4% year-over-year to $3.94 billion, and net income increased 6.7% to $64 million in the quarter.
Marketing services provider Acxiom reported 3.6% growth in revenue to $298.8 million in its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter, which ended March 31. However, the Little Rock, Ark.-based company also saw a loss from operations of $53 million in the quarter.
MDC Partners' first-quarter revenue increased 60% to $217.5 million, compared with Q1 2010, the agency said April 28. Strategic marketing services revenue decreased 0.2% to $91.3 million year-over-year, while performance marketing services revenue increased 70.2% to $76.0 million in the quarter.
Law firm Izard Nobel filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Acxiom Corp. common stock holders this week, claiming Acxiom officers and directors violated federal securities laws by failing to disclose facts about the company's struggling financial performance.
Revenue in WPP Group's branding and identity, healthcare and specialist communications group, which includes its direct and interactive agencies, grew 9.5% in the first quarter to $903.6 million, compared with Q1 2010. Dublin, Ireland-based WPP also said in its first-quarter earnings report that its "direct and interactive networks of Wunderman and OgilvyOne, together with specialist digital agencies VML and JWT Inside, showed strong growth."
Harte-Hanks' first-quarter direct marketing revenue increased 4.9% to $141.1 million, compared with Q1 2010, while direct marketing operating income declined 5.2% year-over-year to $16 million. The San Antonio, Texas-based company reported flat overall revenue in the quarter, growing 0.1% to $200.3 million compared with Q1 2010, on April 28.
Havas' first-quarter 2011 revenue increased 9.7% to $530 million, compared with the previous year, the company said April 27 in an earnings statement. The holding company, which owns and operates Euro RSCG and Arnold Worldwide, among other agencies, saw $563 million in net new business in Q1, a drop of 33% compared with the first quarter of 2010.
Publicis Groupe's first quarter revenue increased 10.7% to $1.9 billion, compared with the same period last year. The company's revenue grew 6.5% organically in the first quarter compared with 2010. Digital accounted for 28.2%, or $535 million, of Publicis' first quarter revenue.
WPP Group's branding and identity, healthcare and specialist communications division reported full-year 2010 like-for-like revenue growth of 4.5%, the holding company said March 4. The unit, which includes direct, digital and interactive marketing agencies, also reported total revenue growth of 7.3% in the year's fourth quarter.
Staples said March 2 that sales increased 1% year-over-year to $24.5 billion in fiscal year 2010, while net income grew 19% to $882 million. However, bad weather and weak e-commerce orders hurt the company. Total company sales in fiscal Q4 2010, which ended January 29, increased slightly to $6.4 billion, a 0.14% increase compared with the fiscal fourth quarter of 2009. Net income in the quarter increased 17% year-over-year to $275 million.
Fourth quarter 2010 net sales in RR Donnelley's US print and related services division grew by 5.3% year-over-year to $2 billion. The Chicago-based company's US printing business saw net sales increase 1.3% for the full year to $7.5 billion.
Office Depot will increase its marketing to reverse its fourth-quarter and full-year 2010 results, said Neil Austrian, interim chairman and CEO, on a February 22 earnings call. Office Depot's full-year 2010 sales dropped 4% to $11.6 billion, compared with the 2009 fiscal year. Its net earnings were $30 million for full-year 2010, which ended January 30, compared with a loss of $71 million in its previous full fiscal year.
Netflix said January 26 that it spent 10% less on marketing in the fourth quarter of 2010 compared with the same period of the prior year. However, it saw $596 million in Q4 revenue, a year-over-year increase of 34%, as well as net income of $47 million, up 52% compared with Q4 2009.
Omnicom Group reported a 5.4% year-over-year increase in net income to $174.6 million in the third quarter of 2010. The holding company's revenue from CRM increased 7.3% year-over-year in the quarter.
Google reported a 23% year-over-year increase in revenue to $7.3 billion in the third quarter.
Total adjusted revenue at Cabela's, a multichannel retailer of outdoor products, increased 5.1% year-over-year for the first quarter of 2010 to $559.6 million. Adjusted revenue from direct increased 2.1% to $222.7 million. Net income in the first quarter increased 59% to $8.1 million compared with the same period in 2009.
April 19, 2010
First quarter earnings for the majority of advertising holding companies showed significant gains over last year's numbers, a clear sign that the advertising market has stabilized after the recent recession.
HP disclosed fiscal fourth-quarter net revenues of $6.5 billion for its Imaging and Printing Group, a 14% increase from the $5.7 billion recorded during the company's fiscal third quarter but a 14.8% decrease year over year from the $7.6 billion of last year's Q4. For FY 2009, HP reported net revenues of $24 billion for imaging and printing, a decrease of nearly 19% from the $29.6 billion reported last fiscal year.
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