30 Nov 2010
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has indicated his group is experiencing stronger growth than...strength across the board," and added WPP had grown 4.5% from the start of 2010 to the end of October.
WPP owns advertising agency networks Y R, JWT and Ogilvy Mather, as well as media agencies MediaCom, Mindshare, MEC and Maxus.
Sorrell's comments come a week after GroupM, WPP's pooled media buying ...
28 Apr 2011
| by Katherine Levy
WPP, owner of GroupM, JWT and Ogilvy, has reported a strong start to 2011 with organic growth of 6....2% for the first quarter of 2011.
WPP revenues climbed 7% to 2.2bn. The group said it was seeing a continued ...
.2bn in the first quarter was due to strong cash flow.
WPP, in a statement, said: "Our budgets ...
years.
In the US, where WPP was "surprised at the speed of the recovery in 2010," revenue in constant ...
24 Aug 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
WPP has unveiled a 37% year-on-year increase in first-half pre-tax profits to £334.3m, after a...sector within WPP as well as the biggest, notching up 10.4% growth to 1.93bn. Consumer insight grew ...
30 Jun 2010
| by Mark Banham
Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP Group has recorded a revenue rise of 1.8% in the first five months...worldwide showed a growth of well over 5%, according to the group. WPP said that the United States had ...
. In the Asia Pacific region, Australia and New Zealand were still the most affected, but WPP said Japan ...
%. Philip Lader, chairman of WPP, said: "There has been a marked recovery in our advertising and media ...
23 Apr 2010
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - Leaders from WPP Group, parent to Grey, Ogilvy & Mather and MediaCom, explained to City...WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell and strategy director Mark Read revealed that more than 40 WPP clients, including global powerhouses Ford and Dell, have licensed 'live dashboards' from ...
and what clients should be looking for." He added that WPP was working on a technology partnership ...
24 Aug 2010
| by Arif Durrani
WPP plc, Sir Martin Sorrell's media, research and advertising group, has posted a 36% lift in pre...WPP s interim results for the six months to 30 June show profit before tax of 243.9m and billings ...
and contrasts with a drop of 11% this time last year.
WPP said in a statement: "The results reflect ...
universal, with WPP s operations in so-called Western Continental Europe, including France, Germany, Italy ...
04 Mar 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
WPP has raised its target for new media revenues after making a strong recovery from...at the end of 2009 to 1.9bn at the end of 2010.
There was 13% growth over the year for WPP's powerhouse ...
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 ...
09 Mar 2011
| by Ed Owen
WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell has increased his stake in the company, gaining the rights...), in which senior WPP executives are invited to participate.
Executives pledge a number of shares and ...
.
Chief executive of WPP digital, Mark Read, received 63,536 shares, worth 518,771, and sold 139 ...
793,033.
Earlier this month, WPP revealed annual pre-tax profits had soared by 29% to 851.3m ...
25 Aug 2011
| by Matt Williams
Wunderman UK is merging its existing data management resources with its sister WPP agency KBM Group...The move also aligns Wunderman with WPP-sister shops, pure play digital agency Blast Radius and the web and analytics company ZAAZ, to formally strengthen the overall Wunderman network offering in the UK market. The four companies will now work more closely together to provide clients with stronger ...