By Staff on December 10, 2012
Former Synovate CEO Peter Huijboom (left) is returning to Aegis as its first ‘global director of business integration,’ charged with identifying ‘revenue synergies’ between Aegis and new owner Dentsu, which bought the media buying network for £3.2bn earlier this year. The deal is still awaiting formal approval from Chinese regulators who don’t seem to like [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, dentsu, ipsos, Jerry Buhlmann, Peter Huijboom, synovate
By Stephen Foster on July 12, 2012
Well we didn’t see this one coming. Aegis, the global media planning and buying group, has agreed a $3.16bn sale to Japanese marcoms giant Dentsu, owner of the Mcgarrybowen creative agency. The 240p a share offer is a 48 per cent premium to yesterday’s share price in London which valued the company at £1.9bn. So, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, carat, dentsu, ipsos, Jerry Buhlmann, synovate, takeover, Vincent Bollore, vizeum
By Staff on April 27, 2012
Marcoms giant WPP grew its like-for-like revenue four per cent in the first quarter of 2011, slightly ahead of budget and roughly in line with recent figures from biggest rivals Omnicom and Publicis Groupe. Latin America was the fastest-growing region with the double-dip recession UK doing surprisingly well at three per cent. Pleasingly for boss [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, carat, first quarter results, ipsos, isobar, Jerry Buhlmann, kantar, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns custom, vizeum, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 23, 2012
That annual entertainment ‘the battle of Sir Martin’s money’ is on its way with WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s base pay set to rise from £1m to £1.25m which, in turn, will trigger much larger bonuses as these are based (via a number of obscure formulae) on base pay. WPP is due to report its [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Research | Tagged aegis, bonus, Eric Schmidt, first quarter results, google, Interpublic, ipsos, John Wren, kantar, Larry Page, Mark Read, Michael Roth, omnicom, pay rise, salary, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns sofres, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 1, 2012
WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been running around the broadcast studios this morning like the busy bee he is, trumpeting WPP first £1bn profits and record revenue of £10bn. And jolly impressive they are too; WPP is now (fairly) comfortably ahead of Omnicom in the profit stakes with a billion pounds to a billion dollars [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Research | Tagged 2011 results, aegis, Eric Salama, ipsos, kantar, Martin Lambie-Nairn, nielsen, omnicom, publicis groupe, research, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns sofres, WPP
By Staff on February 22, 2012
High-flying media buyer Aegis, whose Carat network recently won General Motors’ $3bn global media account, is planning to buy indie digital agency Roundarch for $125m. The agency, with revenue of $63m and profits of about $11m will be merged with Isobar, Aegis’s global digital agency, to form RoundarchIsobar. The combined operation will have revenues about [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged $125m deal, aegis, avis, carat, deloitte, digital agencies, general motors media account, Geoff Cubitt, hbo, ipsos, isobar, Jeff Malling, Jerry Buhlmann, motorola, roundarch, roundarchisobar, synovate, us air force, WPP
By Stephen Foster on January 25, 2012
For years now Carat owner Aegis has been seen as a tasty item on the menu for one of the acquisitive marcoms companies, possibly as one to be divided up between them as WPP for example, which owns MediaCom, Mindshare and MEC under its GroupM banner, would be prevented from buying the whole lot. Or [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegism carat, general motors, ipsos, isobar, Jerry Buhlmann, Joel Ewanick, Luis Di Como, Mark Craze, mec, mediacom, mindshare, omd, publicis groupe, Robert Lerwill, starcom, Stuart Smith, synovate, unilever, Vincent Bollore, vizeum
By Stephen Foster on November 18, 2011
WPP will increase its sales by four per cent next year CEO Sir Martin Sorrell says, to just over £10bn. This compares with a sales increase of just over six per cent this year (2011) so hardly joy unconfined but not a disaster either. “A couple of months ago had you said to me what [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Research | Tagged acquisitions, barcelona media conference, gfk, Interpublic, ipsos, kantar, morgan stanley, omnicom, profits, publicis groupe, research, sales, Sir Martin Sorrell, tns, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 14, 2011
WPP media buyer Maxus was originally promoted as a ‘conflict shop’, somewhere for clients to go who couldn’t be fitted in to existing WPP media agencies MediaCom, Mindshare and MEC. But WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell was never going to settle for such a modest objective (he tried it years ago with creative agency network [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, Ann Stewart, carat, comcast, ddb entertainment, Hugo Gomez, initiative, Interpublic, ipsos, los angeles, maxus, mec, mediacom, mexico city, mindshare, omnicom, Pamela Haupert Sullivan, publicis groupe, red cell, sc johnson, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, toronto, universal film, universal mccann, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 7, 2011
US-based Global Market Insite might not be able to spell but that hasn’t stopped WPP’s Kantar research division shelling out somewhere north of $26m to buy the company that operates online panels in North America, Europe and the Far East. WPP says it will be ‘aligned’ with Lightspeed Research which does roughly the same things. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Research | Tagged advertising, aegis, consumer insight, digital, Eric Salama, fortune 500, global market insite, google, ipsos, kantar, lightspeed research, media buying, nielsen, online panels, research, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns, WPP, xaxis
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