Tag Archives: WPP

WPP has responded with its customary energy to Japanese agency ADK’s rebuttal of its arguments against a $1.3bn sale to Bain Capital (we publish these things verbatim because they are quite entertaining – it’s quite rare to see such a ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (below), who’s fighting on a number of fronts at the moment, likes nothing more than a good old-fashioned takeover battle and he’s in another although this time on the receiving end – Bain Capital’s $1.3bn ...

It never rains but it pours at WPP it seems, at least this year. Trading difficulty is one thing (not unique to WPP as all the holding companies are suffering) but, so far this year, it’s been caught in the ...

Should they go further and blacklist controversial clients? A Guardian investigation reveals that various WPP PR and lobbying firms have been trousering fees from America’s National Rifle Association (NRA), a perfectly legal organisation, for years even while WPP agencies including ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell and creative director John O’Keefe are putting the screws on Cannes International Festival of Creativity organiser Ascential, ostensibly to rationalise the festival, and pulling out of Ascential’s Eurobest awards despite lots of WPP people signing ...

A couple of weeks ago we reported that Publicis Media boss Steve King was to be supremo of Publicis Groupe’s UK business. In fact he’s not, it’s to be Annette King (below, no relation) poached from WPP’s Ogilvy Group in ...

Is this is a clue? Speaking during a one-to-one with the New Yorker’s Ken Auletta (who’s writing a book on advertising) at Advertising Week in New York, WPP founder Sir Martin Sorrell, 72, said, apropos of the ad industry in ...

More restructuring at WPP – this is fun for all the family, running into 2018 and maybe beyond – with the news in Campaign that five of its design agencies are to be rolled into one under the leadership of ...

GroupM CEO Nick Theakstone (below) is expected to be named as WPP’s first UK boss, in overall charge of all the 70-odd WPP companies in the UK including its creative agency networks. He will still have oversight of GroupM in ...