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  • Advertising giant WPP suffers like-for-like sales decline after ‘significant’ client losses

    April 26, 2019

    WPP sales slipped in the first three months of the year as the advertising giant told investors it is closer to selling market research division Kantar. Read more: WPP boss outlines overhaul of corporate culture Revenue rose almost one per cent year on year to £3.59bn in the first quarter of 2019 but like-for-like revenue [...]

  • Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital hits back at reports of Holland legal battle

    April 23, 2019

    Sir Martin Sorrell’s advertising firm S4 Capital has denied reports it is facing legal action in Holland over its takeover of creative agency Media Monks. Read more: S4 Capital revenues soar as it bags top clients A report in the Sunday Times stated a former Media Monks investor, Rogier Schalken, was taking the Dutch firm [...]

  • WPP hunts for replacement as last Chinese board member steps down

    March 25, 2019

    WPP is on the hunt for a new Chinese board member after it emerged a long-serving director from the country will step down, Sky News reported. Ruigang Li, who founded venture capital giant China Media Capital (CMC) and has served on the WPP board since 2010, has reportedly told colleagues he will not stand for [...]

  • WPP board ‘finally came to their senses’ over £2m bonus, says Sir Martin Sorrell

    March 19, 2019

    Advertising veteran Sir Martin Sorrell has said the board of WPP “finally came to their senses” over his £2m bonus, which it has paid out almost a year after his abrupt exit. Speaking at Advertising Week Europe this evening Sorrell, who left the ad group amid allegations of misconduct, denied any wrongdoing as he took [...]

  • Sorrell’s S4 Capital posts revenue rise as mergers help to reel in new clients

    March 18, 2019

    Sir Martin Sorrell’s new advertising venture S4 Capital has posted a large rise in revenue for the year after a string of acquisitions helped it land big-name clients. Read more: S4 Capital ready to compete 'at the highest levels' after Mightyhive merger The figures Revenue jumped 58 per cent year-on-year to £54.8m. Billings hit £59.1m. [...]

  • WPP appoints Microsoft chief executive Cindy Rose to the board

    March 12, 2019

    Advertising group WPP has appointed Microsoft UK chief executive Cindy Rose to its board as a non-executive director, the company said today. Rose, who has held a string of high-profile jobs in the media and technology sectors, will join the firm from the beginning of April and will serve as a member of the audit [...]

  • WPP needs to revamp culture to attract the best people, says boss

    March 5, 2019

    WPP must create a more open culture if it is to attract the best people in the industry, chief executive Mark Read said today. “WPP is really just about people at the end of the day,” he said at the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) conference this morning. Read more: Brands have ‘Netflix envy’, [...]

  • Still feeling entitled? Britain is facing a crisis of intergenerational inequality

    February 15, 2019

    This week, I was audacious enough to suggest that free TV licences for pensioners should not be a public spending priority. The backlash was fierce. “I have paid taxes all my life,” came the outraged cries on social media. This is mostly true, as long as you take “all my life” to mean “until I [...]

  • WPP sells stake in ‘Davos in the Desert’ consulting firm Richard Attias & Associates

    January 31, 2019

    WPP today said it is selling its stake in Richard Attias & Associates (RAA), the consulting firm behind the so-called Davos in the Desert conference in Saudi Arabia last year. The advertising group said it will sell its minority stake in RAA back to existing shareholders as part of an ongoing plan to simplify its [...]

  • WPP mergers fall amid restructuring plan despite increase in deals across sector

    January 16, 2019

    Advertising giant WPP saw its M&A activity halve last year, despite a rise in the total number of deals among marketing communication firms. WPP completed 15 deals in 2018, down from 30 the year before, according to research by Results International. Read more: Brexit, ad fraud and #MeToo – what does the future year hold for [...]

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