Tag Archives: Eric Salama

Eric Salama, long-time CEO of WPP’s Kantar research operation which is now 60 per cent owned by Bain Capital, is stepping down after 17 years. The sale to Bain completed last week. WPP keeps the balance. Salama (below) is staying ...

Is WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell gradually dismantling Kantar, his big research offering? We only ask because WPP this week announced the second of two deals which see big slugs of Kantar business turned into minority stakes in rival companies. ...

It looks as though WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) is set to trouser the £17.6m the company decided he was worth last year as shareholders at this year’s AGM (set for Wednesday) will vote fairly narrowly in favour. But ...

Bessie Lee sounds like a blues singer but she’s not, she’s head of WPP’s mighty media organisation GroupM in China. And now Lee (pictured), who began her career with WPP 23 years ago in Taiwan, has been promoted – to ...

WPP’s 60 or so top managers – the likes of Bob Jeffrey at JWT, digital boss Mark Read, Kantar supremo Eric Salama – have been summoned to a week-long conference, starting October 1. Somewhere on the west coast of the ...

The world’s biggest marcoms company WPP disappointed analysts with its half-year performance, failing to hit its growth target of four per cent, ending up at 3.6 per cent or ‘thereabouts.’ WPP is the only big marcoms company to own a ...

Indian broadcaster NDTV (New Delhi TV) is suing WPP, claiming that Indian TV ratings system TAM, which is jointly owned by WPP’s Kantar Media and arch-rival Nielsen, is “corrupt,” falsely reducing its programme ratings and therefore its finances. WPP boss ...

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 ...

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 ...