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This article deals with the success of London, England Mayor Ken Livingstone's efforts to revive the city. Livingstone, realizing the city needed to be actively marketed as a world-class destination, Livingstone re-established London's then-anemic tourism authority, Visit London, by hiring 75 people and giving it a proper £10 million budget. In addition, he nabbed the Olympic Games for London in 2012.

Reports on the opening of a swimming pool at McCann-Erickson's Northern British office in Prestbury to help its advertising executives relax and improve their creativity. Work done by the agency with organizational psychology professor Cary Cooper on the solution; Benefits of the pool for the agency.

The article discusses New York state judge, Ira Gammerman, who is holding documents that allegedly support allegations of corruption in Grey Global Group's London offices. The documents allege that the printing company Wace was given "discounts" and "rebates" on printing contracts from the London offices.

The article reports on the decision of Mitch Mosallem, the former chief print buyer at Grey Global Group who was convicted of taking kickbacks to assign the printing contracts of the agency, has sued his former employer. According to the lawsuit, Mosallem claims that the agency wrongly framed him for the scandal, and alleging further wrongdoing in the office of Grey Global in London, England. The lawyers of the company have filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.