It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its ...
Read More »Does Bessie Lee’s promotion to CEO WPP China signal important changes at the marcoms giant?
Bessie Lee sounds like a blues singer but she’s not, she’s head of WPP’s mighty media organisation GroupM in China. And now Lee (pictured), who began her career with WPP 23 years ago in Taiwan, has been promoted – to ...
Read More »GroupM spat with Channel 4 could backfire on WPP as well as hurt publicly-owned broadcaster
WPP’s GroupM, in effect the controller of its various media agencies, is threatening to pull around £200m of ads from UK broadcaster Channel 4 (27 per cent of the total) if the publicly-owned broadcaster won’t agree to revised (lower presumably) ...
Read More »Sorrell joins gloomsters as Europe grinds to a halt
It’s all doom and gloom in dear old Europe and here’s WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell to cheer us up further (not). Martin reckons Eastern Europe looks the best bet, what with shale oil in Poland (aren’t we supposed to have ...
Read More »Sir Martin Sorrell reveals what he’s like – a bit
In an illuminating interview with Matthew Gwyther, editor of Management Today. Sorrell has just been voted their business leader of the year, or something, so he fronts up and reveals some of what bugs him personally – his relationship with ...
Read More »WPP closes in on mystery Chinese company Huawei
Here’s an interesting one: Ad Age reports that WPP has ‘edged out’ Omnicom in what seems to have been a two-horse race for Chinese telecoms giant Huawei (‘Hway-hay’ is what you say apparently). Huawei is a global business-to-business supplier (worth ...
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