S4 Capital, owner of Media.Monks among many others, and its india-rubber boss Sir Martin Sorrell may be down but they’re certainly not out. Sorrell says third quarter like-for-like gross profit (not actual profit) rose 29% to nearly £250m although real ...
Read More »Falling share valuations could lead to takeover challenges for the ad holding companies
Martin Sorrell has done pretty well out of the City, London’s financial centre, persuading investors to back his S4 Capital venture when he was rudely defenestrated from his creation WPP. Faith in Sorrell helped S4 rise to a dizzy valuation ...
Read More »Rising costs hammer former WPP boss Sorrell’s S4 Capital
The share price isn’t the only measure of a company’s health – M&C Saatchi suitor Next15’s have tanked this year, without any obvious evidence of trouble at mill – but it matters a lot to Sir Martin Sorrell’s invention S4 ...
Read More »M&C Saatchi fends off first Murria bid – might an old acquaintance ride to its rescue?
In agency land these days it’s now how good you are but what you are. M&C Saatchi, currently under siege from deputy chairman Vin Murria and her acquisition vehicle AdvancedAdvT (between them they control 22 per cent) is valued at ...
Read More »Zemoga deal catapults S4 Capital into tech services
Another week another “merger” for Sir Martin Sorrell’s go-go S4 Capital and its main brand Media.Monks. This time it’s the tech company he promised when he announced S4’s half-year results on Monday. The mergee (do they exist? You get the ...
Read More »Sorrell’s S4 Capital doubles – but growth now will be harder
Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital – owner of Media.Monks, Mighty Hive and Firewood Marketing among a rapidly expanding list – is still growing rapidly with like-for-like gross profit (net revenue) up 49% so far in 2021 (66% in the second ...
Read More »S4 Capital’s Media.Monks bags San Francisco’s Cashmere
Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has bagged another one (“merged with” as it prefers) in Cashmere which is joining its content arm under Media.Monks. Cashmere was founded in Los Angeles in 2003, by Ted Chung and Seung Chung and now ...
Read More »S4 Capital’s MediaMonks becomes all-powerful..Media.Monks
Wot’s in a dot? Quite a lot according to S4 Capital which has unveiled its “unitary brand” for its operations (above), that is, MediaMonks (it’s big production business) with a..dot in the middle. This signifies, If I’m reading it right, ...
Read More »S4 Capital expands in Asia Pacific with Salesforce specialist
If you want to deal with one of the giants of the tech world you might have to put some money Sir Martin Sorrell’s way as his S4 Capital hoovers up some of the multitude of firms that service the ...
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