Tag Archives: Sir Martin Sorrell

By Jane Austin in Cannes Were there any deliberate parallels that were being drawn between Michael Wolff’s description of the ascent of US president Donald Trump and the demise of advertising’s own Sun King Sir Martin Sorrell in the Cannes ...

Here’s rear admiral Mark Read of WPP, in a suitably nautical setting at the Cannes Lions, telling Campaign – what exactly? That WPP doesn’t need to be smaller but needs to be “easier to navigate” and more “client-centric.” Which is, ...

Read (below) is currently joint COO with Andrew Scott in the wake of Sir Martin Sorrell’s departure but he seems to be the front runner, speaking at WPP’s AGM this week and sending out a note to staff saying WPP ...

It’s not unusual for someone to go for a quick one after work, which is what two WPP employees were doing last year when they say they espied (according to the FT) Sir Martin Sorrell entering what we might call ...

It’s WPP’s AGM on Wednesday and it’s threatening to be even messier than most people thought. Shareholders will criticise chairman Roberto Quarta for his handling of former CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s departure; specifically his highly generous leaving arrangements (with no ...

Sir Martin Sorrell has five years to build his new “more agile” marcoms group – majoring on data, content and technology. Now who does that remind you of? It’s a pretty long list. Sorrell’s S4 Capital has £51m in equity ...

Sir Martin Sorrell is said to putting £40m of his own money into his new acquisition vehicle S4 Capital, which roughly equates to the £14m he earned from WPP last year and the £19m he might still earn from his ...

Maurice Levy may be well into his eighth decade but the former Publicis Groupe boss (still chairman of its supervisory board) is moving and shaking, most recently at France’s Viva Tech event, its answer to CES. French premier Emmanuel Macron ...

We’ve managed to avoid last week’s the Royal Wedding so far (the weather turned out nice) but here’s a diverting pic from Campaign of some of the guests you might recognise. Now who have we got? There’s David and Victoria ...