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Working for Wunderman Thompson must be stressful at times (more so its two constituent agencies just before the WPP merger) and so the newly-minted UK agency is introducing 15-minute “wellbeing” breaks. As ever with these things there’s a programme to ...

Former Wunderman execs have landed the plum roles in the two merged WPP agencies in the UK with Pip Hulbert as CEO and Richard Dunn as CSO and chairman. JWT CEO James Whitehead is moving to a “global client role.” ...

WPP’s new agency construct Wunderman Thompson has unveiled its new logo from sister firm Landor – in essence a big plus sign cross plus the names – and some more visual stuff intended to summarise its new dynamic nature. So ...

WPP has hired former Digitas exec Annette Male (left) as its new Wunderman Thompson APAC region boss, thereby placing three women at the top of the newly-minted agency. She joins Global CEO Mel Edwards and global chairman Tamara Ingram. Handily ...

It’s one of those ironies of life that Lester Wunderman, who founded his direct marketing agency Wunderman Ricotta & Kline in 1958, has died aged 98 just when Wunderman (as it now is) is poised to absorb the even more ...

Wunderman UK ECD Abi Ellis (left) has resigned from the agency after a disciplinary investigation. The investigation, first reported by Campaign in December, was triggered after a Wunderman employee made a complaint via WPP’s confidential Right to Speak helpline. As ...

The merging of two entities such as Wunderman and JWT is causing disruption in the industry with, like Brexit, those in support and those who think it is all madness. The long held opinion is the two cultures do not ...

We don’t think anyone expected 2018 to turn out quite like this: JWT disappearing into Wunderman, Y&R into VML (not that many people knew what VML was in January) and Sir Martin Sorrell departing WPP in acrimonious circumstances, to do ...

So what’s next at WPP – Ogilvy Grey or Grey Ogilvy (the former one hopes.) WPP CEO Mark Read (below) has already combined VML and Y&R into VMLY&R and, yesterday, JWT with Wunderman to create Wunderman Thompson. He’s started so ...