07 Jul 2006
Havas' chairman, Vincent Bollore, and WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell have been careful to compliment each...Bollore, in his recent profile with Campaign, noted how much he would
like to do business with Sorrell, and last week, as Sorrell announced
the WPP half-yearly figures, he took pains to comment that he ...
,
in part, a careless side-effect of all the love and attention Sorrell
has been lavishing on the network ...
02 Jul 2010
| by Mark Banham
Sir Martin Sorrell has stated that clients in Western Europe are "focused on cost containment...that would see a further 600,000 jobs lost in the public sector, Sorrell said the UK would have to face ...
, and what they are doing is the unpleasant stuff early on." Sorrell called for a "coherent strategic plan ...
taken under prime minister Mrs Thatcher, Sorrell said: "All the things that were done by Mrs Thatcher ...
01 Oct 2003
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - Sir Martin Sorrell, the WPP Group chief executive, has said that the one...Sir Martin, who as chief executive of WPP has, as much as anyone else, led the global marketing ...
: One size doesn't fit all," Sir Martin told the paper.
As well as not taking the one-size-fits-all mantra too far, Sir Martin said that companies should be marketing specific messages to consumer groups ...
20 Nov 1997
| by MIKE HEWITT
Martin Sorrell s WPP Group is launching a new advertising agency
dedicated to helping clients...Martin Sorrell s WPP Group is launching a new advertising agency
dedicated to helping clients address the complicated and ever changing
roles of women in the 21st century.
The Intuition Group is based in New York, but will offer its services to
companies across the globe.
It is headed ...
09 Jul 1999
| by ALASDAIR REID
Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of WPP, has no doubts about the
significance of Procter...Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of WPP, has no doubts about the
significance of Procter s decision earlier this year to relax
its policy on client conflict. It will, he believes, trigger a fresh
wave of consolidation among ad agencies. The big holding companies -
which include WPP, Interpublic ...
01 Sep 2000
It s tough at the top, and the intensity can make you a tad
irritable.
Ask Sir Martin Sorrell, top-dog at WPP.
The pressure had obviously been mounting prior to his announcement ...
of the cappuccino, several newspapers reported Sorrell
as figuratively expounding at the press gathering ...
18 Sep 1997
| by PATRICK BARRETT
Chris Ingram, chairman of the CIA Group, has confirmed he is
holding talks this week with Martin...Chris Ingram, chairman of the CIA Group, has confirmed he is
holding talks this week with Martin Sorrell, chief executive of
advertising group WPP, to explore the possibility of an alliance.
Sources have indicated a deal could include a shareholding agreement.
Ingram said a key part of CIA ...
24 Jun 2005
Martin Hummel, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO's client services director of 14 years, has joined McCann..., and was appointed as the board account director with responsibility for client services.
Whyte said: "Martin ...
02 Jul 1998
| by LISA CAMPBELL
Media planning has come of age. Moves by Procter s Niall Fitzgerald and WPP s Martin Sorrell
have been spelling out this logic, in Fitzgerald s case warning
advertising agencies to expect a smaller slice of budgets as media
fragments.
And P s
exploration of the specialist press (see ...
18 Feb 1999
and Martin
Sorrell s WPP emerge as front runners to take over the Ogilvy
advertising and marketing ...