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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By Stephen Foster on February 27, 2012
On the face of it, yes, if WPP delivers £1.4bn profits (as expected) when it announces its 2011 results on Thursday. In 2010 WPP made £851m so the pocket tycoon must have been doing something right. Sir Martin Sorrell’s basic pay is expected to rise from £1m (where it has languished for a decade) to [...]
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