31 May 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
RBS Group's head of group comms is leaving to take on a top role at WPP....Andrew Wilson will be leaving the banking and insurance company in the next month to head to the marketing group led by Martin Sorrell, where he will take on a client facing role across a number of WPP s agencies. Wilson will be involved in a wide number of accounts including RBS s account work, currently ...
30 May 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
WPP has criticised a recommendation that shareholders vote against chief executive Sir Martin...including "a low level of transparency in the remuneration report". However, a WPP spokesman criticised ...
in which WPP operates". The other five of the big six advertising groups, including WPP s biggest competitor Omnicom, are listed outside the UK. "WPP, Omnicom and Interpublic all compete for the same ...
29 May 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
WPP-owned database marketing company KBM Group has acquired a majority stake in France...) with gross assets of 3.09m ( 2.47m).
The investment is part of WPP's strategy to strengthen its digital media and data capabilities.
WPP's digital revenues of $4.8bn ( 3.1bn) currently represent more than ...
% to 40% of revenues from digital in the next five years.
WPP is focusing on strengthening its data ...
24 May 2012
| by Sara Kimberley
WPP has appointed Deborah Kerr to oversee Team News, its new agency unit that launched to service..., which brings together resource from the WPP agencies Grey, M/SIX, OgilvyOne and Ogilvy Change.
She will report to WPP's director of strategy and the chief executive of WPP Digtal, Mark Read. Team News will act ...
that, she worked at TBWA\London as its managing partner for 11 years.
The WPP agencies were ...
10 May 2012
| by Anne Cassidy
WPP's Y&R network will make a contribution to war veterans' charities in an attempt to compensate...Sources at WPP also suggested that those responsible face losing their jobs pending the results of an internal investigation.
The news follows the creation of a 90-second film that shows an Argentine Olympian in a "step-up" routine on a British war memorial in the Falklands.
Sir Martin Sorrell told ...
10 May 2012
| by Claire Beale
The one thing that everyone at WPP is agreed on is Sir Martin Sorrell's ability to know what...embarrassing for WPP, for the British government, for the Olympics committee. Consider, too, that Y R's London ...
. And that another WPP agency, JWT London, recently won the account for Army recruitment.
We can only, for the moment, imagine what conversations are taking place between WPP HQ and its Argentine subsidiary. But WPP ...
08 May 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
The Government of Argentina has ignored WPP's request to stop broadcasting a controversial TV ad...soil."
The ad drew protests from the British government and has proved an embarrassment for WPP ...
offices (WPP in New York) to the government."
Mercado said Y R's New York head office was not consulted ...
04 May 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
WPP has won out against BBDO in a global advertising and branding pitch for the Bank of America....
At this stage it is not clear which WPP agencies will be involved in the Team set-up, though the holding company ...
financial services.
"These agencies, led by Team Bank of America at WPP, will help us better communicate ...
WPP's established practice of marshalling multi-disciplinary line-ups to serve key clients.
Grey ...
27 Apr 2012
| by Alec Mattinson
WPP, the world's largest marcoms group, has reported an 8.1% rise in PR revenues over the first...modest 1.9% and accounts for 9.4% of WPP overall revenue. In particular, the group noted that Burson-Marsteller and Cohn Wolfe showed the strongest growth.
Revenues in WPP s UK businesses grew by 5% 2.5% on a ...
27 Apr 2012
| by John Reynolds
WPP has reported a 4% uplift in underlying revenues to £2.4bn in the first quarter, but the UK has...The world's largest marketing service group said its advertising and media investment management unit, home to Ogilvy, JWT, MediaCom, performed strongly and grew 6.2% to 973m in the quarter.
WPP ...
, MediaCom, Maxuis and GroupM, generated new business of 629m in the period.
WPP said 28.5% of WPP ...