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Bain Capital seals ADK victory
Bain Capital has won its bid for Japan’s third largest agency ADK, which it was always going to do once…
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Ford is the question WPP needs to answer to justify Sorrell’s ‘horizontality’ strategy
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell touched on his biggest current problem – the group’s relationship with Ford – at a…
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Ford says no deal with WPP inked yet
Bits and pieces are emerging about what seems to be a somewhat fraught relationship between Ford and WPP following WPP’s…
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Ford jitters strike WPP
A clear sign of the jitters bedevilling WPP is this statement it issued yesterday – which briefly moved the share…
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Norman’s retirement is another sign of the coming sea change at WPP’s GroupM
There’s been much talk recently of the increasing pace of management change in media agencies – a number of high…
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WPP retreats in battle with Bain for ADK
WPP appears to have folded in the poker game for Japanese agency ADK according to a Reuters report from Tokyo.…
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WPP slows some payments in crucial fourth quarter
A report in UK newspaper City AM claims that WPP, where growth has dried up this year, is deliberately delaying…
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What’s behind WPP’s offer to raise its ADK stake?
It’s not so often that you see WPP proffer an olive branch. Is its offer to raise its stake in…
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ADK/WPP battle shows why private equity is circling quoted agencies
Bain Capital Private Equity has extended its $1.3bn tender offer for Japanese agency ADK with ADK shareholder WPP, which has…
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