04 Aug 2011
It seems that WPP, the reigning Holding Company of the Year at Cannes, has developed a new weapon
21 Aug 1997
| by RAYMOND SNODDY, Financial Times media c
WPP, the advertising giant which owns agencies including J Walter
Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather...WPP, the advertising giant which owns agencies including J Walter
Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather, has reported a 15% increase in first-half
pre-tax profits to pounds 78.3m. Overall sales rose by almost a fifth to
pounds 830.6m, boosted by new business from Ford and Kellogg.
...
20 Apr 2005
Mark Linaugh has been made chief talent officer at WPP after two years in a similar post at Ogilvy
07 Jun 2005
| by MediaWeek
WPP’s MediaCom and Maxus
agencies have been selected to
run the consolidated global
media account...The handling of the account, which covers all of Shell's media planning and buying, will be led by MediaCom's London office. It
will be first time the two agencies have worked together since the WPP ...
's Jiffy Lube brand. WPP's
pitch, which was run under the banner of Team Media for Shell, was
praised ...
01 May 2003
WPP saw revenues for its PR interests – which include Finsbury, Ogilvy PR Worldwide, Buchanan
26 Jun 2001
| by MediaWeek
WPP has bucked the current pessimistic trend in the advertising industry, reporting a 4% increase in turnover in the first five months of 2001. Although this is below WPP's full-year target ...
.3% to 676p and turnover rose 69%, fuelled by WPP's £3bn purchase of Young Rubicam in August. The news ...
14 Aug 2000
| by MediaWeek
Global advertising giant WPP Group’s pre-tax profits for the first half of the year were up 22 ...
for 46% of WPP's £1.2 billion revenue. Money from web business grew to over $90 million (£60 million), an increase of $60 million (£40 million) from the first half of 1999. WPP Group is set to become the world ...
26 Feb 2010
October 2008: Maxus was launched as WPP's fourth-string media brand in
the Asia-Pacific region in 2004. In 2008, WPP serves notice that it
intends to build the agency into a credible worldwide network ...
't have a
presence. December 2008: Clark announces that the WPP-owned UK agency BJK&E will
become Maxus ...
21 Aug 2003
| by MediaWeek
Bank predicts WPP profit-fall...WPP is expected to announce a fall in profits when its first-half figures are announced tomorrow ...
. This reinforces WPP chairman Sir Martin Sorrell's predictions that the advertising industry will pull itself out ...
acquisition of Cordiant Communications Group, although boosting WPP's stock price, is also thought to have had ...
17 Apr 2007
| by Media Week
WPP Group has invested in VideoEgg, a video solution and video ad network for online communities....is
a strategic investment in that it allows WPP to enter the market for
user-generated video content and the social network marketing space, so
it's a great strategic alignment for both WPP and VideoEgg." He ...
, myYearbook.com
and Tagged, with more than 12 million monthly unique users. WPP joins existing VideoEgg ...