Tag Archives: WPP

WPP CEO Mark Read (and, no doubt, his dealmaking COO Andrew Scott) haven’t broken up for the Christmas holidays yet, they’ve just unloaded contentious data acquisition Triad Retail Media to Walmart-owned Sam’s Club. Last month it emerged that WPP, which ...

Eric Salama, long-time CEO of WPP’s Kantar research operation which is now 60 per cent owned by Bain Capital, is stepping down after 17 years. The sale to Bain completed last week. WPP keeps the balance. Salama (below) is staying ...

WPP ends 2019 in rather better shape than it started the year, with the completion of its sale of 60 per cent of research operation Kantar to Bain Capital for about £2.4bn. £1.4bn of this is being retained to reduce ...

“It is ironic that people think our industry is terrible when WPP are in it and a fantastic industry when Accenture are in it” WPP boss Mark Read (below) told a Morgan Stanley conference last month. The quote comes from ...

It goes from bad to worse at Grey London, not so along ago the creative jewel in WPP’s armoury of creative agencies along with its much bigger sibling Grey New York. Now Adrian Rossi (below with London CEO Anna Panczyk), ...

WPP is creating another campus to house its multifarious agencies, this time in Detroit, home to Ford which it still describes as its biggest client despite losing the creative slice of the business to BBDO and Wieden+Kennedy. The new campus ...

Running a big ad holding company must be rather like playing whack-a-mole, except for millions of dollars. Something troublesome keeps popping up just when you think it’s business as usual (if such a state still exists in such companies.) WPP ...

Did he or didn’t he? S4Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell clearly had a vigorous exchange of views with Jim Prior (below), boss of his old company WPP’s Superunion brand consultancy, at the recent Web Summit in Lisbon (Sorrell had promoted Prior ...

WPP’s Wavemaker media agency has scored a big and timely win with most of French insurance giant Axa’s global media account. Publicis has won the media business in Germany, the UK, Italy and Hong Kong. Publicis retains Axa’s creative. So ...