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Market Cap:$12.1B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$9.1B
  • Public
  • UK
Dow Jones Description

Through our companies, WPP Group plc offers a comprehensive and, when appropriate, integrated range of communications services. We relieve our companies of financial work (such as planning, budgeting, reporting, mergers, control, treasury, tax, mergers, acquisitions, investor relations) that can instead be spent devoted to the pursuit of professional excellence. We encourage and enable our companies of different disciplines to work together, for the benefit of clients and the satisfaction of our people. In the management of talent, the parent company plays an across-the-Group role. A recent development, and for a minority of clients, WPP itself can function as the 21st century equivalent of the full-service agency, acting as a portal to provide a single point of contact and accountability.

Chief Executive Officer
Martin Sorrell
Number of Employees 110,000
Contact Information

27 Farm Street

London W1J 5RJ

www.wpp.com

(44) 207 408 2204

NAICS Code Advertising Agencies: 541810

Recent Events

  • GroupM Signs Up for MRI's AdMeasure

    11/23/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story

  • 3 things that keep News Corp. execs awake at night

    11/06/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • News Corp. strikes ad partnership, sees MySpace strength

    11/05/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • Ad Agency Claims It Owns The Right To Product Placement; Sues Competitors

    10/30/09 - Lawsuit Filed - View Story

  • STOCKS NEWS UK-Hirco up on rise in NAV

    10/30/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story

  • WPP: 'Armageddon' Averted as Ad Company Hits Optimistic Notes

    10/30/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • Yahoo Partners With Group M  5 hrs ago

    10/21/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • UPDATE: 4 Big Ad Agencies Back Microsoft-Yahoo Search Pact

    10/19/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • Report: WPP Suit Against Spot Runner Dismissed

    9/28/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • Ferguson, part of CommonHealth: Ferguson Elevates Staff and Hires New Employees

    9/17/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - Vice President - View Story

  • Corrected: WPP eyes huge savings in consolidation

    9/11/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • BRIEF-Moody's cuts WPP senior unsecured debt to Baa3

    9/03/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story

  • Roundup: Dell up, phishing down, App Store forecasts all around

    8/28/09 - Lawsuit Filed - View Story

  • 30-SECOND SPOT / DISPATCHES FROM THE WORLD OF MEDIA AND ADVERTISING

    8/28/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • INTERVIEW-WPP says clients still shy on spending

    6/25/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

News & Analysis

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Martin Sorrell Chief Executive Officer
Tro Piliguian Chief Operating Officer
Feona McEwan Director, Communications, London
John O'Keeffe Worldwide Creative Director
Mark Read Executive Strategy director
Paul Richardson Group Finance Director
Vanessa Edwards Manager, Communications

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
Philip Lader Chairman
Christopher Mackenzie Board of Directors
Colin Day Board of Directors
David H. Komansky Board of Directors
Esther Dyson Board of Directors
Jeffrey A. Rosen Board of Directors
John Quelch Board of Directors
Koichiro Naganuma Board of Directors
Lubna S Olayan Board of Directors
Orit Gadiesh Board of Directors
Paul Spencer Board of Directors
Stanley Morten Board of Directors
Timothy P. Shriver Board of Directors

Sir Martin Sorrell joined WPP in 1985 as a director, becoming Group chief executive in 1986.

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Chief Executive Officer Current
London Business School Deputy Chairman Current
Saatchi & Saatchi Group Finance Director Former
WPP Group plc Director Former
Harvard University MBA Former

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Chief Operating Officer Current
Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Inc. Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Director, Communications, London Current

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Worldwide Creative Director Current
Bartle Bogle Hegarty Limited Executive Director, Creative Former

Mark Read was appointed a director in March 2005. He has been WPP's director of strategy since 2002. He worked at WPP between 1989 and 1995 in both parent company and operating company roles. Prior to rejoining WPP in 2002, he was a principal at Booz-Allen & Hamilton and founded and developed the company WebRewards in the UK.

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Executive Strategy director Current
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. principal Former

Paul Richardson became Group finance director in 1996 after four years as director of treasury. He is responsible for the Group's worldwide functions in finance, information technology, procurement and property. Previously with the central finance team of Hanson PLC, he is a non-executive director of Chime Communications PLC and STW Communications Group Limited in Australia.

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Group Finance Director Current
Blue Reef - Entertainment Finance Director Current
STW Communications Group Ltd. Director Current
Chime Communications Plc Board of Directors Current
STW Communications Group Ltd. non-executive director Former
Hanson PLC Former

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Manager, Communications Current

Mr. Lader, the former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, is non-executive Chairman of WPP Group plc, the worldwide advertising/communications firm. He is also a Senior Adviser to Morgan Stanley, a director of WPP, Lloyd's of London, Marathon Oil and AES Corporations, a trustee of RAND Corporation, St. Paul's Cathedral, and The Salzburg Seminar, and a partner at the law firm, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough. Ambassador Lader served in President Clinton's Cabinet and was White House Deputy Chief of Staff and an Assistant to the President, Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget, and Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Before entering government service, he had been Executive Vice President of Sir James Goldsmith's U.S. holdings, President of Sea Pines Company, and President of universities in South Carolina and Australia, as well as a candidate for South Carolina Governor in 1986. He founded Renaissance Weekends, the non-partisan family retreats for innovative leaders from diverse fields, in 1981. Mr. Lader resides in Charleston, SC.

Organization Position Status
Morgan Stanley Senior Advisor Current
WPP Group plc Chairman Current
RAND Corporation Board of Directors Current
The AES Corporation Board of Directors Current

Christopher Mackenzie was appointed a director in 2000. He is chief executive of Equilibrium, a London-based financial advisory partnership, and Executive Chairman of Brunswick Capital, Russia's leading investment bank and non-bank financial services group. He is also a board member of ALJ, Saudi Arabia's largest non-government industrial group. Previously he was president and CEO of Trizec Properties and a company officer of GE, heading GE Capital's international business development.

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current
Trizec Properties CEO Former
General Electric Capital Corporation Officer Former

Colin Day is Group Chief Financial Officer (since 2005) and Director of Reckitt Benckiser. Colin Day started his career in 1973 as a trainee accountant at Kodak. A year later he joined British Gas, where he worked as an internal audit, management and project accountant for five years.

Organization Position Status
Reckitt Benckiser, Inc. Group Chief Financial Officer Current
Fifty Lessons Ltd. Group Chief Financial Officer, Reckitt Benckiser Current
Reckitt Benckiser plc Chief Financial Officer Current
Reckitt Benckiser plc Executive Director Current
Imperial Tobacco Group plc Non-Executive Director Current
Benckiser N.V. Current
Reckitt Benckiser plc Board of Directors Current
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current
Imperial Tobacco Group plc Board of Directors Current
Reckitt Benckiser, Inc. Director Current
Reckitt Benckiser, Inc. Executive Director Former
Aegis Group plc Group Finance Director Former
Reckitt Benckiser plc Group Finance Director Former
British Gas Former

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
First Monday Consulting Editor Current
Wpp Group Ltd. Board of Directors Current
Meetup Inc. Board of Directors Current
The Long Now Foundation Board of Directors Current
Evernote Corporation Board of Directors Current
Airship Ventures, Inc. Board of Directors Current
StopBadware.org Board of Advisors Current
Viewpoints Network, LLC Board of Advisors Current
PGP Corporation Board of Advisors Current
O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, LLC Board of Advisors Current
Icosystem Corporation Board of Advisors Current
Choicestream, Inc. Board of Advisors Current
AnchorFree Inc. Board of Advisors Current
The After-School Corporation Board of Directors Current
Sunlight Foundation Board of Directors Current
Santa Fe Institute Board of Directors Current
Eurasia Foundation Board of Directors Current
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current
CVO Group Board of Directors Current
Boxbe, Inc. Board of Directors Current
23andMe, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Zedo, Inc. Board of Directors Current
EDventure Holdings Co-Owner Former
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Chairman Former
Electronic Frontier Foundation Chairman Former
Harvard Business School MBA Former
Harvard University Bachelor's Degree, Economics Former
Harvard University Degree Former

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current

Koichiro Naganuma was appointed a director in February 2004. He is president and group chief operating officer of Asatsu-DK. Having joined ADK in 1981, he began his career with the international arm of the agency, his mandate expanding the total operation of the group. He replaced ADK Chairman Masao Inagaki on the Board. ADK is Japan's third largest advertising and communications company. WPP took a 20% interest in ADK in 1998.

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current

As CEO of Olayan Financing Company, Lubna Olayan is responsible for the Olayan Group's business and investments in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. In December 2004, she was elected to the Board of Saudi Hollandi Bank. From 1996 through 2004, she served on the board of Chelsfield, the UK property developer. She is a member of INSEAD's International Council and a trustee of the Arab Thought Foundation. She is also a member on the Arab Business Council and the Women's Leadership Initiative of the World Economic Forum.

Organization Position Status
The Olayan Group CEO, Olayan Financing Company Current
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
Bain & Company Chairman Current
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Board of Directors Current
Harvard Business School Board of Directors Current
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current
Harvard Business School MBA Former

Organization Position Status
Sovereign Reversions Plc Chairman Current
Tr Property Investment Trust Plc Board of Directors Current
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current
Mactavish Group Board of Directors Current
Resolution plc Board of Directors Current
Nipponkoa Insurance Co., Ltd. Board of Directors Current
Hanson PLC Chief Executive Former
Hanson PLC Group Finance Director Former
Rolls-Royce plc Treasurer Former

Organization Position Status
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current
Punk Ziegel & Co. Chief Operating Officer Former

Organization Position Status
Cdex, Inc. Chief Operating Officer Current
Cdex, Inc. Project Manager for the Meth Scanner Current
Special Olympics Connecticut, Inc Chairman Current
WPP Group plc Board of Directors Current

Executive News

  • 'Net takes Manhattan

    CNN Money - 6/04/09 - View Story

  • Need to know: Nissan in Russia ... GSK drug progress ... AIG sale

    The Times - 6/02/09 - View Story

  • WPP Shareholders OK $100 Million in Potential Bonuses for Sorrell

    Advertising Age - 6/02/09 - View Story

  • Nissan in Russia ... GSK drug progress ... AIG sale

    The Times - 6/02/09 - View Story

  • Martin Sorrells 60m bonus is voted through

    The Times - 6/02/09 - View Story

  • WPP sees off revolt on 60m bonus scheme

    The Times - 6/02/09 - View Story

  • Ex Vodafone head takes 500k for moving home

    The Times - 6/02/09 - View Story

  • PRESS DIGEST - British business - June 2

    Reuters - 6/01/09 - View Story

  • WPP's rebels face defeat over bonus

    The Times - 6/01/09 - View Story

  • WPP's rebels face defeat on chief Sir Martin Sorrell's bonus

    The Times - 6/01/09 - View Story

  • WPP Stockholders Urged to Vote Against Sorrell Bonus Package

    Advertising Age - 5/28/09 - View Story

  • Pirc urges WPP investors to reject bonus scheme

    Reuters - 5/28/09 - View Story

  • Fight Over Bonus Plan at WPP

    Media Post - 5/26/09 - View Story

  • PRESS DIGEST - British business - May 23

    Reuters - 5/23/09 - View Story

  • Shell can be sure of pumping up volume of investor anger

    The Times - 5/22/09 - View Story

  • Honda pay cuts ... Corus at risk ... HSBA acquisition

    The Times - 5/22/09 - View Story

  • Need to know: Honda pay cuts ... Corus at risk ... HSBA acquisition

    The Times - 5/22/09 - View Story

  • Shell sure to pump up volume of investor anger

    The Times - 5/22/09 - View Story

  • WPP braced for investor rebellion as it proposes 60m bonus payout for Sorrell

    The Times - 5/22/09 - View Story

  • WPP proposes 60m bonus payout for Sorrell

    The Times - 5/22/09 - View Story

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WPPGY $48.33 +0.55 (1.15% )
Volume 17,330
Shares Outstanding 250.7M
Market Cap 12.1B
Year High 49.66
Year Low 22.35
Earnings Per Share 1.8510
P/E Ratio 26.11
Dividend 1.2530
Yield 2.5926
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