28 Sep 2010
WPP has asked us to point out and we accept that, although it has had discussions with AKQA in the...We wish to reiterate that WPP had denied any interest in making a bid as at the date of publication ...
25 Apr 2005
| by Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive, WPP
As competition increases, functional product advantages become more difficult to acquire and retail, and oversupply becomes a familiar characteristic in markets. For these reasons astute marketing companies look with ever greater interest at the creative and analytic skills of direct marketing and its...
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...
21 Nov 1997
| by JEREMY BULLMORE, a director at WPP
Twenty years ago this week, the founding partners of Abbott Mead
Vickers set out their stall in a double-page ad in Campaign. Watch out
Colletts, the headline said above a cheery picture of the founders,
we re only pounds 34 million behind you - Collett Dickenson Pearce,
for those whose history...
21 Nov 1997
| by JEREMY BULLMORE, a director at WPP
Let me begin, as the company s name does, with Abbott. Twenty years
ago, Barry Day edited a book called 100 Great Advertisements.* Ten
contributors each chose and commented on ten print advertisements they
particularly admired.
09 Aug 2001
| by MediaWeek
WPP buys Forward...Sir Martin: international expansion WPP has announced the acquisition of contract ...
03 Oct 2001
| by MediaWeek
WPP considering bid options...It looked increasingly likely today that WPP would attempt to pull out of its 555p bid for Tempus ...
07 Feb 2002
| by MediaWeek
Goodbye WPP, hello Woking!...stake in the takeover by WPP, is said to be leaving for new fields in June. Sir Martin Sorrell ...
25 Oct 2001
| by MediaWeek
WPP leans on Tempus...'s WPP was yesterday still trying to extricate itself from a 555p per share, £430m offer for the media ...
27 Oct 2000
| by MediaWeek
Love Boots: Love WPP...Boots strategic decision to pass all its marketing communications requirements to WPP means that ...