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 »Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital takes more heavy fire
S4Capital’s share price headed sharply downwards this morning following a good kicking in the influential UK Sunday Times yesterday (subscription required.) ‘How chaotic accounting engulfed Sir Masrtin Sorrell’s S4 Capital empire’ was the headline, referring to the essentially book-keeping problems ...
Read More »From the WPP Archive: under fire WPP settles Johnson/Martinez case at JWT
The messy Johnson/Martinez affair at JWT signalled the end for the venerable agency as a separate entity (WPP merged it with Wunderman with Wunderman in the driving seat.) It also pre-dated, just, Sir Martin Sorrell’s ousting at the company he ...
Read More »From the MAA Archive: Sorrell out as he quits WPP ahead of investigation findings
The biggest event in adland over the past few years was undoubtedly the ousting of WPP founder and long-serving CEO Sir Martin Sorrell in 2018. This followed an injudicious trip to Shepherd Market, a lively area of London’s Mayfair, then ...
Read More »If S4 Capital’s Sorrell is planning his biggest move yet now would be a good time
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 ...
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