Tag Archives: Sir Martin Sorrell

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 ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell is to be a father again, at the mature age of 71. Sorrell is married to Cristiana Falcone (below with Sorrell) who is in her 40s. The two married in 2008 after meeting at Davos. ...

Once upon a time breakaways were all the rage: Messrs Bartle Bogle and Hegarty broke away from TBWA (which then looked like an agency that would never happen), Frank Lowe and Geoff Howard-Spink departed the great Collett Dickenson Pearce, which ...

Here’s something to ring alarm bells at Cannes Lions organiser Ascential, WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell telling Ad Age editor Ken Wheaton that WPP may take a pause with its humungously expensive commitment to Cannes. Sorrell, as ever, reminds us ...

It may be some comfort to WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell that he’s been replaced as many people’s business baddie – on account of his £70m pay – by Sir Philip Green, boss of Arcadia and, until a year or ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell faces his shareholders today, some of whom will be more than a little pissed at his 2015 pay cheque of around £70m (his actual salary is £1.2m). The rest comprises bonuses and share awards under ...