20 Aug 1999
- WPP Group has acquired Shire Hall Group, the largest independent healthcare communications...- WPP Group has acquired Shire Hall Group, the largest independent healthcare communications consultancy in the UK in a move designed to advance WPP s strategy of expanding in the fast growing healthcare sector.
Shire Hall will retain its brand identity and management structure and will join WPP ...
20 Aug 1999
- WPP Group has acquired Shire Hall Group, the largest independent healthcare communications...- WPP Group has acquired Shire Hall Group, the largest independent healthcare communications consultancy in the UK in a move designed to advance WPP s strategy of expanding in the fast growing healthcare sector.
Shire Hall will retain its brand identity and management structure and will join WPP ...
09 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
WPP has bought US DM agency Marketing Direct for an undisclosed sum, in a deal brokered through KBM....
WPP bought North American and Dutch agency Taxi in November, again for an undisclosed sum.
WPP ...
05 Nov 2004
The European Commission has launched an investigation into the WPP acquisition of Grey Global Group....The investigation was triggered by concerns that WPP's strengthened position may impede effective ...
into WPP's purchases of Young Rubicam and Tempus - there may be more cause for concern for WPP this time ...
asks some "searching questions" regarding the assimilation of MediaCom into WPP alongside MindShare ...
06 Jun 2008
| by Kate Magee
Authoritative new research by WPP suggests PR campaigns run on environmental grounds will continue...,500 UK adults were polled by WPP in April. ...
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 ...
22 Apr 2002
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - WPP Group reported first-quarter revenues down by 2% to £945.8m but UK revenues were up 2.... However, WPP offered little in the way of forward guidance on how it sees the markets developing ...
%. WPP was hardest hit in public relations and public affairs, which were down by more than 13% and goes ...
Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East revenues were up over 3%.
WPP reported net new ...
25 Mar 2003
| by Staff,
it consolidate its business with Publicis Groupe and WPP Group....RSCG and WPP's J Walter Thompson.
Tony Zook, senior vice-president of commercial operations, said ...
08 Nov 2002
WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell rarely tampers with his brands. In fact, his famously hands...shape.
The most pertinent spur however for bringing together WPP's healthcare PR and broader marketing ...
31 Oct 2000
| by Camilla Palmer
UK-based advertising and communications group WPP Group is cutting around 100 staff at Young...LONDON (Brand Republic) – UK-based advertising and communications group WPP Group is cutting around 100 staff at Young multicultural agencies Bravo Group and Kang PR groups Burson ...
, when WPP bought Ogilvy & Mather in a hostile takeover, the company cut 50 staff in overlapping ...