Tag Archives: WPP

Sir Martin Sorrell may own 1.4 per cent of WPP (the biggest individual shareholder as he reminds us below) but he thinks the marcoms giant is no longer “fit for purpose” and the best way to get his money back ...

WPP has a new CFO in John Rogers from Sainsbury’s Argos where he was CEO. Rogers, a former Sainsbury’s CFO, served under overall J Sainsbury CEO Mike Coupe. At WPP he replaces group finance director Paul Richardson who had previously ...

Accenture is closing rapidly on its rivals in marcoms – the big ad holding companies – reporting $8.76bn in revenue from its Communications, Media and Technology practice in fiscal 2019, out of a total revenue of $43.2bn, 8.5 per cent ...

It hasn’t been the best of weeks for WPP with £400m billing Vodafone media departing to Carat in the UK but it will be pleased to hang on to what may be its longest-serving client, the US Marine Corps. JWT ...

Former Unilever chief marketing and communications officer Keith Weed is joining the board of WPP as a non-executive director. In a long career at Unilever Weed (below) picked up numerous honours including Global Marketer of the Year for 2017 from ...

Leaders of 145 of America’s biggest companies have signed a letter demanding background checks on gun buyers and ‘Extreme Risk’ laws following a spate of summer shootings in the US. Separately Walmart is demanding more checks: about time too as ...

Global snack behemoth Mondelez has concluded a lengthy review by consolidating its global creative account with WPP and Publicis, Adweek tells us. Well it kind of has except Interpublic’s The Martin Agency continues on Oreo globally (a pretty big brand ...

North America continues to bedevil WPP with organic “growth” there of -5.4 per cent in the first half of 2019, a slight improvement on the first quarter’s -6.2 per cent. Elsewhere things weren’t too bad with most other regions performing ...

Everybody seems to want to own data these these days but is this really wise? Facebook has been fined $5bn over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal (although its earnings keep rising – remorselessly), British Airways has been landed with a ...