11 Jun 2010
| by Claire Beale
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 ...
29 Apr 2005
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 ...
21 Nov 1997
| by JEREMY BULLMORE, a director at WPP
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...
21 Nov 1997
| by JEREMY BULLMORE, a director at WPP
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.
11 Sep 2001
| by Staff,
LONDON - Acquisition-happy WPP has announced it is buying French media-ratings firm JFC...WPP will take a 75% stake in JFC, which provides audience analysis systems for print media ...
and consultancy arm of WPP which also includes Millward Brown.
JFC operates in France and other European ...
week, WPP announced it had acquired leading Puerto Rican market research firm Mediafax.
If you ...
30 Apr 1998
| by RAYMOND SNODDY
Marketing services giant WPP has agreed to pay pounds 23.9m for
international marketing research...Marketing services giant WPP has agreed to pay pounds 23.9m for
international marketing research and consulting business the Goldfarb
Corporation.
...
05 Apr 2001
WPP Group has bought 77% of French branding agency CB Associes and may buy the remaining 23%....LONDON (Brand Republic) - WPP Group has bought 77% of French branding agency CB Associes and may buy the remaining 23%.
With offices in Paris and Stuttgart, CBA specialises in package and retail ...
and WPP’s branding and identity agencies.
...
24 Aug 2001
| by Staff,
LONDON - WPP Group's share price has continued to creep back up this week, as support in the City...WPP was up 2.2% today at 715p, the highest the stock has been for almost three weeks.
There was still no response from Havas Advertising, which has so far failed to respond to WPP's 555p counter ...
above WPP's offer and Havas's original 541p bid.
Just outside of the media triangle, Aegis ...
20 Aug 1998
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
WPP Group has unveiled a 20% rise in pre-tax profits to pounds
93.8m on revenue of pounds 900m...WPP Group has unveiled a 20% rise in pre-tax profits to pounds
93.8m on revenue of pounds 900m for the six months to June 1998.
...
19 Feb 1998
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
WPP Group has announced pre-tax profits up 16% to pounds 177.4m on
turnover of pounds 7.3bn...WPP Group has announced pre-tax profits up 16% to pounds 177.4m on
turnover of pounds 7.3bn for the year ended December 31 1997.
...