Finance
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Aegis powers Dentsu to record global growth
Media buyer Aegis (which owns Carat and Vizeum) continues to bring home the bacon for Japanese marcoms giant Dentsu, playing…
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Will WPP’s new Xaxis Politics swing the US presidency?
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell likes years with big events – he reckons, correctly no doubt, that advertisers flood in…
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Xaxis moves to centre stage at WPP’s Group M as Lesser takes top North America role
We wondered if Kelly Clark’s departure as CEO of WPP’s GroupM in North America might signal closer ties between WPP’s…
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George Parker – live! – on Big Dumb Holding Companies
Some years ago my friend George Parker of Adscam fame spoke at the US 4A’s conference in San Fancisco on,…
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Ubisoft kicks back at Bolloré with media switch to WPP
Vincent Bolloré’s machinations usually conclude with the Bolloré coffers even more full than before but the French magnate (below), owner…
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WPP buys stake in $700m digital media player Essence
As widely flagged, WPP is buying a majority stake in Essence Digital, described as a leading global digital agency and…
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Staff pay the price as holding companies retrench – but that’s hardly a recipe for long-term growth
What happens to the staff when there’s no growth among the agency-based holding companies? There is some growth, of course,…
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CEO Clark steps down at $100bn media giant GroupM
Who wants to be CEO of the world’s biggest media buying Company? Kelly Clark (left), CEO of WPP’s GroupM which…
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WPP’s Landor buys majority stake in screen-based design studio ManvsMachine
Sometimes it’s easier to say what WPP doesn’t do rather than list all the things it does – don’t think…
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