Tag Archives: Sir Martin Sorrell

WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell (below) will receive about £50m this year from the marcoms giant, down from £70m last year. This is because the controversial Leap bonus scheme has fewer shares in it (this is its last year) so ...

Who’d be WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell? No sooner has he declared 2016 a record year for WPP with revenues of £14.39bn and operating profit over £2bn for the first time (£2.06bn with post-tax profit of £1.5bn) than the shares tumble ...

Messaging service Snapchat, limbering up for an IPO this year that could value it at $25bn, is a potential rival to Facebook according to WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell. Speaking at Davos Sorrell said that WPP clients spent $90m with ...

We haven’t heard from WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell for a while – well everybody deserves a break and it looks as though SMS went somewhere sunny (and had the eye op too). But he’s back on the road again, at ...

Business Insider has published its annual list of the top earners in advertising and, strange but true, hardly any (maybe none) are actually involved in advertising at all. Now they’re all from quoted companies admittedly so you’d expect the top ...

Martin Sorrell (as he then was) built WPP into a £22bn advertising behemoth by buying big agency brands (JWT then Ogilvy then Y&R then Grey) in the days when they planned and bought media as well. Now they don’t the ...

Addressing the nation on the wireless this morning (he doesn’t really require an interviewer) WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell (below) had to try to sound downbeat about the UK’s Brexit vote even as the fall in the value of the ...

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been strangely quiet recently – by his own voluble standards anyway – but he’s been regaling delegates at the Festival of Marketing in London as only he can. Other speakers at the event include Monica ...

WPP marches on where others, sometimes, fear to tread. Every now and then you feel its executives might be issued with tin hats. Now its J. Walter Thompson has bought a majority stake in WANDA Digital which is described as ...