Yet another one-time WPP employee, Steve Simpson, formerly CEO of GroupM’s Business Sciences division and an employee of Mindshare, has fallen foul of the marcoms giant’s insistence that departing employees play things by the book. Not only that but Simpson (pictured) seems to have lost his new job at data-based consultant Marketshare EMEA Partners too. [...]
You don’t, as we’ve observed before, mess with WPP as Spot Runner founders Nick Grouf and David Waxman are finding out, for the second time. WPP invested $10m in US local ads digital company Spot Runner back in 2006 but the company proved much better at losing money than making it and WPP objected to [...]
Forget about advertising, the best account in the business at the moment is acting for WPP against the huge marcoms group’s former employees. Fresh from winning a fight with UK agency marriage counsellor Oystercatchers over its plan to start a new company with employees from Everystone and The Brand Union, WPP is suing Michelle Hutton [...]
They keep doing it don’t they, these people who think they can spirit business out of WPP? But they can’t, of course, because WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell is quick to call in the lawyers when anybody tries to leave with a client in the back pocket. Sorrell has made it his life’s work to [...]
It used to be received wisdom that an ad agency’s assets (or any other agency’s assets) went ‘up and own in the lift’ and that therefore agencies or agency groups were bad investments because the staff and their clients could walk at any time. Every time Martin Sorrell (as he then was) heard this it [...]
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