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Danny Rogers
Dec 06, 2013

Client pressure is putting independent spirit at stake

GSK’s demand for pitching agencies to state a percentage ‘rebate’ and sign-on ‘bonus’ is just the latest in a raft of requests in 2013 from clients, says the author.

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