03 Sep 1999
| by SOPHIE BARKER
entity within its new parent
company, WPP, rather than being absorbed into an existing PR
network....entity within its new parent
company, WPP, rather than being absorbed into an existing PR
network.
WPP owns two full-service PR networks with healthcare divisions, and at
least 15 medical advertising agencies.
The deal, reportedly worth pounds 10 million, means WPP now owns the
second and third ...
15 Aug 2006
| by by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - WPP Group has acquired a small stake in stake in WildTangent, a US-based online computer...-installed on 64% of consumer PCs in North America.
Mark Read, WPP strategy director, said the move would allow ...
the 18-34 demographic."
WPP has bought a 3.4% stake in the firm for an undisclosed sum. It follows ...
30 2006 were $14.3m.
It is WPP's second digital acquisition this week. Yesterday, it agreed to buy ...
19 Apr 2006
| by by Joe Lepper
NEW YORK - Johnson & Johnson's has appointed WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather to handle creative
24 Nov 2005
| by by Sam Matthews
LONDON - WPP Group's sports sponsorship arm Prism is launching the latest version of its Six Sigma
02 Nov 2006
| by by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON - WPP Group could end up owning a stake in sports rights marketing group Sportfive, which...Sports marketing division Mediapro, in which WPP owns a 20% stake, is working with Hellman ...
for Sportfive of between €800m (£535m) and €1bn, the newspaper says.
Hellman Friedman has worked with WPP ...
WPP's base activities of traditional marketing, advertising and media buying.
In September ...
26 Sep 2006
| by by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON - WPP Group and Universal Music are to unveil a 50-50 joint venture that will team up client...and will give WPP access to Universal artists, who include Elton John, Stevie Wonder and the Rolling Stones ...
of WPP's media agencies. Earlier this month, MediaCom scooped the £21m Universal Pictures account. The joint venture with Universal Music will be run through Group M, WPP's combined media unit.
Some ...
11 Jun 2008
| by Stephen Foster
LONDON - WPP's Enfatico could prove the value of scale for agency and client and when it comes...Will Enfatico hit the right notes for WPP? Just a few years ago, agencies used to moan and groan ...
). But one man is to be seen regularly popping up alongside the world's commercial elite and that's WPP's Sir ...
into the boardroom and key to this process has been to use WPP's huge scale to good effect. So if clients aren ...
26 Sep 2006
| by by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON - WPP Group and Universal Music have unveiled details of their new 50:50 joint venture...music expertise. BrandAmp will identify ways for WPP agencies and clients to tap into the growing ...
of Universal Music Group, and Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of the WPP Group.
Sorrell said: "In a world of media ...
."
In the UK, Universal Music has a 20-year relationship with MediaCom, one of WPP's media agencies. Earlier ...
23 Nov 2006
| by by Sarah Woods
The acquisition follows a bidding process that also involved WPP Group-owned Mediapro working with Hellman Friedman.
The deal is Lagardere's first move into the international sports rights trading and agency market. It is in line with the group's long-term strategy of increasing its presence in exclusive ...
20 May 2008
| by Jacquie Bowser
LONDON - WPP Group has appointed Torrence Boone as chief executive of Project Da Vinci, its new...Boone will be based in the agency s New York headquarters, reporting directly to Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP. Boone previously worked for Publicis Groupe as president of Digitas ...
and work on establishing a new name and identity, which it expects to unveil soon. However, WPP ...
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