Theakstone for WPP
06 Sep 2001 | by MediaWeek
Theakstone for WPP
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WPP has asked us to point out and we accept that, although it has had discussions with AKQA...We wish to reiterate that WPP had denied any interest in making a bid as at the date of publication and Campaign is happy to make WPP's position clear and unreservedly apologises for any misunderstanding. ...
In a quarter of a century, WPP has gone from a shopping baskets manufacturer to the world's biggest...WPP's 2010 annual report begins by trying to explain "Why We Exist". For anyone who has ever pondered the issue, WPP's answer (the short version at least) runs thus: "To develop and manage talent ... with profit." Don't imagine that the order of the mantra is arbitrary. The longer version explains that WPP ...
Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP is to marketing services what Tesco is to the high street. Caroline..., WPP's chief executive is the figurehead for more than 84,000 staff, thousands of clients and 13 ... , says. Anyone far-sighted enough to have put £1,000 into WPP in 1985, and ploughed back all ... and Kantar. WPP made a profit before tax of £564 million last year. A strong new-business performance ($6 ...
Every day brings with it another story of millions won and lost on the stock market. Pages are devoted to the lastminute.com share price as if that was the important story. And yet anyone who equates dotcom share prices with the importance of the dotcom revolution fundamentally misunderstands what we...
Twenty years ago this week, the founding partners of Abbott Mead Vickers set out their stall in a double-page ad in Campaign. Watch out Colletts, the headline said above a cheery picture of the founders, we re only pounds 34 million behind you - Collett Dickenson Pearce, for those whose history...
Let me begin, as the company s name does, with Abbott. Twenty years ago, Barry Day edited a book called 100 Great Advertisements.* Ten contributors each chose and commented on ten print advertisements they particularly admired.
WPP buys Forward...Sir Martin: international expansion WPP has announced the acquisition of contract ... Airways and the Halifax, will be placed within the Specialist Communications division of WPP. Forward ... could and should be a powerful means of communicating with a company's target audiences. WPP presents ...
Goodbye WPP, hello Woking!...stake in the takeover by WPP, is said to be leaving for new fields in June. Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP bought Tempus for £434m in November, despite efforts by Sorrell to extricate himself from the deal ...
WPP considering bid options...It looked increasingly likely today that WPP would attempt to pull out of its 555p bid for Tempus ... now been extended to October 15 and WPP is expected to argue with regulators that the effects ... change in the Tempus. Tempus' share price has slumped to below £5. Reports suggested that WPP chief ...