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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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...