12 May 2000
| by MARTIN SORRELL, chief executive of WPP
Every day brings with it another story of millions won and lost on
the stock market. Pages are devoted to the lastminute.com share price as
if that was the important story. And yet anyone who equates dotcom share
prices with the importance of the dotcom revolution fundamentally
misunderstands what we...
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 ...
20 May 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - WPP Group is the latest company to sack Arthur Andersen as its auditor, following...WPP said in a statement today that it is proposing to appoint Deloitte & Touche "following a thorough review of services offered by a number of the leading international accountancy firms".
The marketing services company, owner of agencies including Ogilvy & Mather and J Walter Thompson, is one of a ...
05 Jan 2009
| by Alec Mattinson
WPP Group is to axe thousands of jobs according to newspaper reports....to be concentrating on cutting back in areas where staff costs exceed 60 per cent of revenue. WPP operations ...
cent of its workforce will be cut as rubbish'. WPP currently employs 100,000 world ...
Europe and Asia where demand for PR and market research continues to grow. WPP is not the only ...
01 Nov 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - The Takeover Panel last night rejected WPP Group's appeal against the ruling that it must...WPP had wanted to invoke the adverse material change clause to allow its bid for Tempus to lapse. WPP had already had its move rejected by the Takeover Panel executive. Yesterday, it appealed to the full panel.
The panel said that WPP can apply to appeal against its decision within 24 hours ...
07 Aug 2001
| by Staff,
LONDON - WPP Group has acquired UK contract magazine publishing company Forward Group...WPP has acquired the full share capital of the company, which was founded in 1986 in London ...
and should be a powerful means of communicating with a company's target audiences. WPP presents unlimited ...
independently within the WPP Specialist Communications division, continues WPP's strategy of expanding its ...
11 Sep 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - There were, as expected, no last-minute surprises in WPP Group's offer document for its...The document, which was issued yesterday, gives Tempus shareholders until October 1 to accept WPP ...
will respond. The 555p-a-share WPP offer trumped Havas's original 541p-a-share offer at a premium of 14p a ...
.
If this happens, analysts believe that it is unlikely WPP will counter-bid, but will instead take the money ...
29 Oct 2004
| by John Tylee
Omnicom and WPP have both reported strong third-quarter performances, with each group posting....26 billion. WPP, its closest rival, revealed an increase of almost 4 per cent to pounds l.068 billion ...
per cent to £76.06 million.
WPP pointed to significant growth from its operations in Asia ...
.
It marks the highest like-for-like quarterly growth recorded by WPP since the first quarter of 2001 ...
22 Oct 2001
| by Staff,
LONDON - As WPP awaits the Takeover Panel's decision on whether it must proceed with its takeover...The bank said that WPP was well positioned to exploit the structural growth in the advertising ...
. WPP's much-fluctuating share price was up 3.5% to 512.5p.
WPP is due to publish its results ...
market.
In a research note, Deutsche Bank said that it expects WPP to say its current targets ...
06 Jul 2006
| by Ted McKenna
WPP Group has announced that its executive vice-president of PR Howard Paster has resigned from its...said.
No decision on a successor has been made.
Paster said WPP Group CEO Sir Martin Sorrell had ...