Tag Archives: WPP

More tidying up at Mark Read’s WPP, Possible UK and Mirum UK are being merged into Mirum UK, headed by former Possible group CEO and Wunderman MD Chris Daplyn. Mirum UK MD Antti Lauronen is leaving. Mirum UK will be ...

Another day, another big media review at WPP it seems. Vodafone is reported to be reviewing its global media planning and buying, worth somewhere between £400-600m, at WPP media agency Wavemaker (formerly MEC.) Earlier this week it emerged that Wavemaker, ...

L’Oreal is reckoned to be the UK’s fifth-biggest advertiser and now it’s reported to have cut the shortlist for its £106m media account down to just two – WPP, which handled the business through Maxus, now merged with MEC as ...

Marketing group Williams Lea Tag (WLT), now owned by Advent International, is splitting itself in two: former printer Williams Lea which handles outsourced business processes for big companies under its new CEO Clare Hart and Tag which is an ad ...

It’s always good to talk down your prospects in the City because, if nothing goes too pear-shaped, investors will think you’re doing well. New WPP CEO Mark Read has been resolutely downbeat in his considered way and it seems to ...

Troubled retailer Marks & Spencer (most of them are pretty troubled these days as online shopping lays waste the UK high street) has sprung a surprise by appointing specialist agency ODD to handle its clothing and home account. The business ...

WPP’s auction of some or all of research arm Kantar kicks off in April with Goldman Sachs in the auctioneer’s chair, according to Reuters. Bankers are lining up to to £2.5bn of debt finance for some lucky buyer. Kantar has ...

The British Arrows Awards, formerly the British Television Advertising Awards until it all got more complicated, has finished its deliberations and, to no-one’s great surprise Wieden+Kennedy’s ‘Nothing beats a Londoner’ for Nike is its ad of the year. Nike is ...

Sky News reports that WPP is cooling on the notion of forming a joint venture with a Chinese investor in that country. The idea was floated when Mark Read (below) took over from Sir Martin Sorrell as CEO. At the ...