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 ...
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 ...
17 May 2001
LONDON - WPP Group shares have partially recovered from their dramatic fall yesterday, following a...WPP shares. A third of their holdings could have been sold in the last year, but the expiry date for the remaining two thirds came a few days ago. A spokesman for WPP said the shares were only a small proportion ...
18 Jan 2001
Enterprise IG, the WPP Group-owned brand and identity consultancy unit, has bought a 55% stake...LONDON (Brand Republic) - Enterprise IG, the WPP Group-owned brand and identity consultancy unit, has bought a 55% stake in Amsterdam-based identity and interactive agency Visser Bay Anders Toscani ...
and is in negotiations to sell the remaining 45% to WPP.
VBAT clients include Libertel and Smiths Food Group. It has ...
21 Sep 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - Tempus has recommended WPP Group's 555p-a-share bid, following Havas Advertising...The WPP bid is worth 555p a share and values Tempus at 437m.
The question now is whether WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell will brave the markets and push ahead with the deal.
WPP already ...
this week for 555p a share.
If WPP goes ahead with the bid, it plans to merge its The Media Edge ...
23 Aug 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - WPP Group has received yet another downgrade in the wake of its 17% decline in profits...The credit agency Moody's has switched WPP's debt rating from stable to negative owing ...
for the advertising giant.
Moody's specifically mentioned WPP's performance in North America, where it recorded a 6.3% slump in revenues for the first half of 2002, and WPP's share buy-back programme as reasons for the move ...
20 Aug 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - As WPP Group this morning launched its 555p-a-share counter-bid for Tempus, Havas...The WPP offer represents a premium of 14p on the Havas offer of 541p a Tempus share and 54 ...
.
As widely predicted, WPP proposes to merge CIA, Tempus's media-planning and buying business, with The Media ...
in terms of media buying, it might have to bid or miss its chance.
WPP says it has identified ...
16 Aug 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - Tempus Group has confirmed that it has been in discussions with WPP Group about a possible...The news could mean that an all-cash bid for Tempus may be imminent. Speculation is WPP will launch a bid in the region of 450m. This would see WPP pay between 550 and 555p per share ...
now risen more than 60% since Havas made its July 19 bid of 425m.
WPP would find itself ...
07 Nov 2000
| by Louise Banbury
Talks between UK financial PR company Finsbury and the advertising holding group WPP Group have...LONDON (Brand Republic) - Talks between UK financial PR company Finsbury and the advertising holding group WPP Group have failed, according to reports.
WPP, which owns the Ogilvy 15m to 20m for Finsbury with an earn-out deal valuing the company at 50m. However, this price was later deemed “ludicrous ...