By Stephen Foster on May 1, 2012
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s base pay last rose from £1,m to £1.3m (relatively modest by current CEO standards, as he says) but his pay and benefits package rose from £4.23m to £6.77m including a payment from WPP’s short term bonus scheme. On top of this he received nearly £5.6m of shares under the company’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged bonuses, brandedge, digital, infosys, John Wren, kantar, Maurice Levy, research, Sir Martin Sorrell, succession planning, tns, WPP, £1.3m base pay, £13m package
By Stephen Foster on January 18, 2012
Publicis Groupe has added yet another digital company to its vast array of same, France’s Mediagong agency which employs about 50 people and will work with Leo Burnett. Mediagong’s clients include Accor hotels, Bel, Crédit Agricole, Danone, Dessange International and Lindt. At the same time (well, yesterday) WPP has bought yet another Chinese company, social [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegismipsos, big fuel, China, cic, Dell, france, general motors, kantar, leo burnett, Maurice Levy, mediagong, Nestle, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, tns, WPP
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 Staff on November 10, 2011
Businesses are wasting time and money trying to reach people online without realising many resent big brands invading their social networks according to findings from a global study launched today by WPP-owned research company TNS. The findings come from TNS’s Digital Life study into how 72,000 consumers in 60 countries behave online and why they [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged developed markets, digital life, facebook, research, social media, tns, WPP, Youtube
By Staff on October 12, 2011
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell recently doubled his 2011 acquisition budget to £400m and he’s been busy spending some of it recently, including today’s purchase by WPP agency JWT of A4A, a digital agency founded in 2003 and based in Beijing. The agency employs 80 people and clients include Audi, Lenovo, Mamibuy and Nokia. A4A’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged a4a, acquisition, arcay pr, bates 141 rebrand, beijing, cannes grand prix, China, digital agency, JWT, lanka marketing research bureau, salary increase, samsonite, Sir Martin Sorrell, spikes, tns, WPP, wunderman philippines
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
By Stephen Foster on July 11, 2011
It was bound to happen and it’s all rather reminiscent of WPP rowing into the (ultimately) abortive GfK deal to merge with TNS back in 2008. French researcher Ipsos is in ‘exclusive’ talks with media buyer Aegis to buy its Synovate research business for around £500m. But private equity firms Doughty Hanson (which owns UK [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, doughty hanson, gfk, havas, ipsos, synovate, tns, Vincent Bollore, vue entertainment, WPP, wyvern partners, £600m
By Angie Dean on July 5, 2011
WPP-owned research giant TNS has turned to veteran designer Martin Lambie-Nairn to put some sparkle into the company, which WPP bought for £1.1bn in 2008. Lambie-Nairn, best known for his Channel 4, BBC and O2 design work, sold his company to WPP in 1999. In effect he will become creative director of TNS, revamping its [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, BBC, Channel 4, creative director, Eric Salama, ipsos, kantar, Martin Lambie-Nairn, mori, tns, WPP
By Stephen Foster on June 24, 2011
Which will prompt a Gallic chuckle or two from Havas chairman Vincent Bollore and his cronies. What is perfidious Albionite Sir Martin up to now, they’ll think. Trying to discover our intentions? Winding up Maurice Levy at Publicis Groupe? Aegis, the world’s biggest independent media buyer, is in talks to sell its market research arm [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, guardian, havas, ipsos, Jerry Buhlmann, Maurice Levy, mediacom, mindshare, omnicom, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns, Vicent Bollore, WPP
By Stephen Foster on June 8, 2011
Most commentators see French tycoon Vincent Bollore, chairman of Havas and the biggest individual shareholder in both Havas (33 per cent) and Aegis (26.5 per cent) as the key player in the unfolding drama of media buyer Aegis, which is discussing the sale of its Synovate market research firm to French research giant Ipsos for [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged advertising, aegis, arnold worldwide, carat, dentsu, digitas, Euro RSCG, france, gfk, havas, Interpublic, ipsos, Jean-Yves Naouri, Maurice Levy, Media, media planning group, mpg, omnicom, publicis groupe, publicis worldwide, razorfish, Sir Martin Sorrell, synovate, tns, Vincent Bollore, vivaki, vizeum, WPP
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