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By Stephen Foster on April 26, 2013
He’s a veritable babbling (or burbling) brook that Martin Sorrell. This morning he was on the airwaves again; promoting (or defending) WPP’s first quarter results and referring inter-alia to a world economy with a ‘corrugated’ bottom, bumps here and there presumably. But at least he didn’t replicated last year’s howler when he said that paying [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Creative, Finance, Media, News, PR, Research | Tagged advertising, akqa, digital, Hill & Knowlton, market research, PR, publicis groupe, Q1 2013 results, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 1, 2012
Lord Bell (Tim Bell as was) and Piers Pottinger are reported to be organising a management buy-out of Bell Pottinger, the PR company they founded in 1989 when Bell left ad agency Lowe Howard-Spink (& Bell). Bell Pottinger, currently owned by Chime Communications, the marcoms company Bell heads, is one of the UK’s biggest PR [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, PR | Tagged Bell Pottinger, Burson-Marsteller, chime, fast track vccp, Hill & Knowlton, Lord Bell, lowe howard-spink & bell, management buyout, Piers Pottinger, PR, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on December 2, 2011
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell seems to have decided it’s not good enough to be ‘just’ a PR firm these days, even if the PR firm in question is one of the world’s biggest and most famous. So WPP’s Hill & Knowlton is rebranding as Hill & Knowlton Strategies, reflecting its merger with lobbying outfit [...]
Posted in Agencies, News, Politics, PR | Tagged boston consulting group, glover park lobbying firm, Hill & Knowlton, hill & knowlton strategies, Jack Martin, Maurice Levy, mckinsey, Paul Taaffe, public strategies, rosetta marketing group, Sir Martin Sorrell, strategic consultancy
By Stephen Foster on December 1, 2011
Teddy Roosevelt coined the phrase ‘bully pulpit’ although he didn’t mean bully in its modern sense, bully meant something good for the extrovert US president and big game hunter. But Teddy realised that the status of president gave you the licence to hector one and all and, sometimes, change things (not something many of his [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged bully pulpit, David Cameron, dewey square, eurozone problems, George Osborne, glover park, Hill & Knowlton, public strategies, reuters conference, Sir Martin Sorrell, Teddy Roosevelt, us budget deficit, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 30, 2011
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell has been telling us for ages now how much next year’s US presidential election will impact on marketing spending and he’s put some of the company’s money where his mouth is by buying Washington lobbying firm Glover Park for an undisclosed sum. Glover Parks turns over about about $60m, a [...]
Posted in Clients, News, PR | Tagged 2012 us presidential elections, blue state digital, Carter Eskew, dewey square, forged letters, glover park lobbying firm, Hill & Knowlton, Joe Lockhart, news corporation, Paul Taaffe, phone hacking scandal, public strategies, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 4, 2011
WPP may own 26.7 per cent of Arun Nanda’s agency Rediffusion-Y&R but the veteran Indian adman is having a high old time tweaking the tail of the world’s biggest marcoms company – and its equally combative boss Sir Martin Sorrell. Earlier this week it announced that it was partnering with indie PR giant Edelman to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged airtel, Ajit Balakrishnan, Arun Nanda, colgate-palmolive, edelman, everest brand solutions, havas, Hill & Knowlton, India, mec, media services, mediacom, mindshare, mpg, pr giant, rediffusion-y&r, tata, tme, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 29, 2011
JWT in London has had more bosses than you can shake a stick at in recent years and now the latest, Guy Hayward, who joined from 180 Amsterdam which he co-founded in 1998, is leaving after just two years to join ambitious Havas network BETC. Hayward’s departure is a particularly grievous blow as JWT London [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged 180 amsterdam, arnold worldwide, bbh, betc, david jones, ero rscg, ford, gsk, Guy Hayward, Hamish McLennan, havas, Hill & Knowlton, JWT, jwt london, Lee Doyle, mec, ogilvy & mather, omnicom, Paul Taaffe, public strategies, publicis groupe, saatchi & saatchi, Sir Martin Sorrell, Toby Hoare, unilever, WPP, y&r
By Stephen Foster on April 27, 2011
You wouldn’t think Manchester United would be much of a challenge, heading for a record 19th UK Premiership title and more than half-way to this year’s Champion’s League final at Wembley but it undoubtedly is. The reason, of course, is the phenomenal unpopularity of owners the Florida-based Glazer family and the huge amounts of debt [...]
Posted in Clients, News, PR | Tagged barcelona, Bell Pottinger, Champions League, Cristiano Ronaldo, Glazer family, Hill & Knowlton, Jim O'Neill, Jon Tibbs, jon tibbs associates, Jose Mourinho, manchester united, Phil Townsend, qatar holdings, real madrid, red knights, schalke, Sir Alex Ferguson
By Angie Dean on April 15, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Clients, News, PR | Tagged Ann MacIntosh, edelman, Everystone, Hill & Knowlton, Marcus Warner, Michelle Hutton, norton rose, oystercatchers, Richard Edelman, Sir Martin Sorrell, the brand union, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 16, 2011
Omnicom, owner of BBDO, DDB and TBWA, has confirmed the recovery in advertising industry fortunes with fourth quarter 2010 like for like revenue growth of ten per cent bringing total revenue in 2010 to $12.5bn (up 6.5 per cent) and profit to $819m (up 4.4 per cent). As well as benefiting the marcoms company’s big [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged bbdo, communispace, ddb, Hill & Knowlton, John Wren, Maurice Levy, Paul Taaffe, possible worldwide, Sir Martin Sorrell, tbwa, tenth avenue
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