WPP recently made a brief announcement about the merging of two of their ‘production’ businesses, Hogarth and Deliver. It’s not clear from WPP’s website yet if this will become one brand under the Deliver name , but it is early ...
Read More »WPP in 2012 – solid but not spectacular
WPP more or less matched rivals Publicis Groupe and Havas, beat Interpublic but lagged Omnicom with growth of 2.9 per cent in 2012, according to its full year accounts released today. Billings fell slightly to around £44bn (blamed on the ...
Read More »Five key questions investors should ask WPP
WPP announces its 2012 results on Friday and the odds are that they’re going to be good – if the recent hike in its share price is anything to go by. WPP, because of its scale and the number of ...
Read More »WPP sets up giant production specialist Deliver
Thought WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) had been uncharacteristically quiet recently (by his standards, these things are relative) but it appears that SMS has been busy reorganising his empire – and trying to take over even more of the ...
Read More »Omnicom’s OMG revealed as backer of new Eric Newnham out of home contender Talon
Which will put the cat among the pigeons in all sorts of places, not least Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP which used to employ Eric Newnham (left), boss of new out of home contender Talon, as CEO of Kinetic. Talon, which ...
Read More »Leading UK media shop the7stars set to join exodus to new outdoor contender Talon
Former Kinetic worldwide boss Eric Newnham (left) is shaking up the UK out of home buying industry in a way it hasn’t seen for years: now leading UK media independent the7stars is set to join the rush to Newnham’s new ...
Read More »WPP goes fishing to land digital agency Salmon
We often muse in these pages about quite what sort of company WPP is and, more pertinently perhaps, what sort of company it intends to be. For years the assumption was that founder and CEO Sir Martin Sorrell just wanted ...
Read More »WPP’s Sorrell says to David Cameron: you’re barmy to promise a UK referendum on the EU by 2017
Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, is in Davos along with lots of other movers and shakers (he likes the place, he met the current Lady Sorrell there) and, he, like lots of other UK business leaders is aghast at ...
Read More »WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell did intervene to sort out GroupM/Channel 4 airtime row
As we suspected the airtime row between GroupM, which handles big negotiations for WPP’s media agencies including MediaCom, Mindshare and MEC, and publicly-backed UK broadcaster Channel 4 did escalate to involve the higher ranks of WPP. Which means CEO Sir ...
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