30 Apr 2010
| by Staff
LONDON - Sir Martin Sorrell has upped the forecast of WPP from flat to 2% growth for the year...The WPP leader said the group had seen sequential monthly improvements since the start of the year, culminating in "a little bit of growth" of 1% in March. WPP reported revenues of 2.1bn , down 1.82% year ...
" is expected to continue in April, May and June. In the interview, which follows WPP s trading statement ...
24 Aug 2010
| by Arif Durrani
WPP's chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell believes the worst of the financial downturn is over...Speaking to CNBC on the day of WPP s interim results for the first half of 2010 , Sorrell ...
the rest of the year." WPP, home to agencies JWT, Grey and Ogilvy Mather, as well GroupM, Kantar and TNS ...
a downward adjustment to expectations, so I think they are on the cautious side." A WPP statement ...
05 Mar 2010
| by Anne Cassidy
LONDON - WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell used a well-worn football analogy to describe his company...Talking to global business broadcaster CNBC , the just-turned 65-year-old leader said last year had been "a game of two halves" for WPP. Sorrell said: "In the first half of the year I think we were staring into the abyss. In the second half we certainly saw things becoming less worse." Sorrell said ...
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...Speaking at the offices of WPP's new ally Infosys on Monday (23 April) to inaugurate the latter ...
" (Fabric is a WPP company).
Sorrell explained his latest buzzword "horizontality" his label for pulling together all WPP's businesses to work together, "because clients don't hire agencies but people ...
26 Jan 2011
| by Arif Durrani
WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell has called on President Obama's administration in the US to take a lead...Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland today (26 January), WPP s leader pointed to the lack of investment in long-term business commitments in the US as a result of uncertainty surrounding business in the short-term.
Despite WPP achieving "remarkable" growth of 8 ...
28 Oct 2011
| by Arif Durrani
WPP chief executive Martin Sorrell has highlighted "surprising positivity of the UK" despite...Speaking to CNBC today after WPP posted comparable global revenue growth of 4.7%, and reported ...
. That will be running about half the level of the major media owners that we invest with."
WPP's UK revenue had ...
driven. Radio, outdoor sort of stable, not much growth."
Also in the interview, WPP's chief executive ...
25 Feb 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
, when unveiling WPP's first global campaign for the automotive giant Ford yesterday....The campaign consists of a single set of TV and print executions led by WPP's European team, which ...
, which has been WPP's biggest client since 1987, had historically run different creative in the US ...
led WPP to set up, beginning with Team Detroit in 2006 and rolling out globally, including ...
16 Feb 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has claimed it is difficult for agencies and other companies
04 Mar 2011
| by Arif Durrani
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has thrown his weight behind News Corporation's efforts...Sorrell, speaking on the day WPP reported a 28.5% lift in pre-tax profits for 2010, offered unwavering support for News Corporation, despite an anticipated legal challenge from an alliance of media ...
made the comments as WPP celebrated an unexpectedly strong, speedy recovery in global group activities ...
24 Nov 2011
| by Maisie McCabe
), with WPP's media arm GroupM as the exclusive ad partner until March 2012....and BT will advertise through the app.
Tom Wilkinson, head of partnerships at WPP agency Mindshare ...