Lots of gossip over the weekend that S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been putting the finishing touches to a big deal, his biggest so far since kicking off S4 with the £300m acquisition of MediaMonks. In hindsight MediaMonks looks ...
Read More »Martin Sorrell up for auction – and the second prize is….
Thanks to Adscam’s George Parker for this – would you like your very own Sir Martin Sorrell for an hour? Courtesy of Sothebys. SMS is offering an hour of his time (to help you start a business – at which ...
Read More »Watch out for albatrosses says Sorrell to WPP’s Read
S4Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is 75 on Friday (St Valentine’s Day – happy birthday Martin) but advancing years don’t seem to have mellowed him. In an Ad age podcast he refers to the way all the holding companies, especially his ...
Read More »Sorrell’s way forward for S4Capital is “management with control” – ie him
Not to be outdone by WPP, the company he founded, here’s Sir Martin Sorrell on his new construct S4Capital and its component parts MediaMonks, MediaHive and new “merger” Firewood. As ever with Sorrell there’s a grand tour d’horizon – first-naming ...
Read More »S4’s Sorrell says: watch out ad holding companies
Advertising Week in New York is proving surprisingly interesting – Burger King’s lively CMO on his radical approach to advertising, Arthur Sadoun forced to admit that Publicis’ purchase of data firm Epsilon was “expensive but necessary” – and S4Capital’s Sir ...
Read More »Sir Martin Sorrell: agencies can no longer access consumers
It seems a while since Sir Martin Sorrell did the rounds of the TV studios as in his WPP days but here’s the boss of S4Capital and MediaMonks regaling the viewers of CNBC with his views about the way companies ...
Read More »Shareholder advisors on the war path over pay at Sorrell’s new S4 Capital
We thought Sir Martin Sorrell’s pay was yesterday’s news as he’s now ensconced at “better, faster, cheaper” S4 Capital. At WPP he controversially earned buckets including £72m in 2016. But now two shareholder advisors, Glass Lewis and ISS, are urging ...
Read More »Sorrell’s S4 Capital is growing fast
Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4 has reported revenue up 38 per cent to £40.9m and gross profit up 37 per cent to £32.8m in Q1 2019, a pretty staggering performance since the business only started a year ago following his ...
Read More »Born-again Sorrell on S4’s buy plans, WPP and the importance of investing in agency brands
Prior to performing at Adweek London S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell shared some thoughts with Ian King at Sky, here. It’s an instructive five minutes or so from a seemingly energised SMS. Among other things he says he wants to ...
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