01 May 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, was paid £12.9m during 2011, an increase of 56% year...Sorrell's pay hike comes despite WPP suffering an investor backlash last June about executive rewards.
According to WPP s annual report and accounts for 2011, Sorrell was paid a basic salary of 1 ...
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In comparison, in 2010 Sorrell was paid a total of 8.3m in 2010 including 1.0m in basic salary, 374 ...
11 Apr 2012
| by Staff
In a step-change from his usual outings as the sage of Soho, WPP's chief executive, Sir Martin...In a heavily-edited video interview conducted on a giant pink tiger print stiletto, Sorrell admits to feeling like "an absolute berk".
In scenes the 65-year-old admits "wouldn't make the Cannes Film Festival", he proceeds to don a pink tie around his neck in 10 seconds, although in perhaps a giveaway sign ...
20 Feb 2012
| by Arif Durrani and John Reynolds
WPP chief executive Martin Sorrell has thrown his considerable support behind Rupert Murdoch...Sorrell s media buying behemoth, GroupM, is responsible for approximately one third of all press ...
s 43-year-old Sun will launch its first Sunday edition , Sorrell said: "I think both readers ...
last full month in June.
Sorrell said: "My media colleagues tell me the market needs more ...
25 Apr 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
WPP's chief Sir Martin Sorrell talks about the logic of partnering with an IT company, his desire...'s new "customer experience centre", Sorrell expanded on the background to the tie-up with Infosys, which ...
" (Fabric is a WPP company).
Sorrell explained his latest buzzword "horizontality" his label ...
technology, Sorrell was measured, responding that "we all" managed to survive the rise of Google ...
24 Apr 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Sir Martin Sorrell has said WPP's launch of a technology platform in partnership with Indian...Not content with an empire that spans advertising, digital, research, PR and media, Sorrell ...
around the world.
Sorrell visited WPP's latest partner's Canary Wharf offices yesterday to cut ...
, claimed Sorrell, has won three out of three pitches including healthcare and consumer giant ...
30 May 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
WPP has criticised a recommendation that shareholders vote against chief executive Sir Martin...recommending they do so, highlighting a "substantial enhancement" of Sorrell s pay package among other factors ...
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Sorrell's base salary, which had stayed at 1m since 2007, was increased to 1.3m in 2011, while ...
04 May 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Sir Martin Sorrell and his Young & Rubicam network have condemned an ad created by Y&R's Buenos...Sorrell today told Campaign he was "appalled" by the ad, while Y R s New York head office has apologised and claimed "the ad s creators behaved in a manner which is unacceptable to our company". The WPP chief executive said: "We will be making a full investigation and will decide on what action ...
28 May 2012
| by Arif Durrani
network DDB "needed some help", according to Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of rival holding group....
When the trio opened the agency they were embroiled in a bitter legal dispute with Sorrell centred ...
rumoured to be in excess of 700,000 and a humbling apology from the trio.
Talking to Campaign, Sorrell ...
major network.
Sorrell said: "It sounds to me the triumph of implementation over strategy. It goes ...
02 Feb 2012
| by Staff
He is proof that it is possible to incur the wrath of Sir Martin Sorrell and live to tell the tale...., Eccleshare says he intends to take up an offer to become BBDO's European chief executive. Sir Martin Sorrell ...
to Sorrell. There's speculation that he might have been offered rather a large sum of money to take the job. ...
25 Apr 2012
| by Arif Durrani
newspaper proprietors, while Sir Martin Sorrell is the wealthiest ad man, according to The Sunday Times Rich...their wealth in the UK.
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell, 67, is identified as Britain's wealthiest advertising mogul with a fortune of 174m, up from 148m last year. Sorrell, who has built WPP into the world ...
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