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• Ad agencies slash jobs, investors hammer stocks; WPP buys Taylor Nelson Sofres, expanding market-research holdings; WPP also gets rid of its 'Group' in tax-saving reorg.(Agencies)(Brief article)

  - 2008-12-29

  A brief history of ad agency economics: U.S. agency employment reached its all-time peak (207,400) in August 2000, four months before ad spending's dot-com-bubble peak. Media spending began to recover in May 2002, but agency employment didn't hit its post-bubble nadir until January...

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• WPP and Nielsen swap assets

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-13

  WPP is selling its 50% stake in TV measurement firm, AGBNielsen Media Research, to venture partner Nielsen. The deal will give Nielsen full ownership of AGBNielsen. In exchange WPP will acquire Nielsen's advertising analytics firm, SRDS, and campaign organiser, PERQ/HCI. The UK ad giant will also acquire Nielsen's 11%...

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• WPP buys TNS for $1.93 billion.(Field Reports)

  - 2008-11-01

  NEW YORK -- Media holding company WPP Group PLC ended a six-month struggle to acquire the marketing research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres TNS in mid-October by agreeing on a $1.93 billion buyout, reports DMNews.com. TNS, a long-time research partner of Response (see this...

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• German firm GfK pulls out of TNS takeover

  - 2008-08-28

  GfK, the German market information group, has pulled out of the running to take over Taylor Nelson Sofres TNS, its UK counterpart, leaving Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP Group as the only hostile bid in town. The news of GfK's withdrawal left TNS no warmer towards the advertising giant's...

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• Growing Hostility: Are Unsolicited Deals on the Rise?

  - 2008-07-21

  The age of unfriendly deals may be upon us. Some the largest and most visible acquisition bids so far this year have been hostile. InBev's play for AnheuserBusch, currently valued at $52 billion, began as a hostile takeover bid. Microsoft's less successful bid for Yahoo! Inc. was also unsolicited. China...

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• TNS agrees to open its books to WPP

  - 2008-06-10

  Taylor Nelson Sofres TNS has finally agreed to open its books to WPP Group, which is attempting to gatecrash the market research company's agreed merger with Germany's GfK, despite its board already having rejected two proposed bids from the advertising powerhouse. TNS announced yesterday that it would provide...

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• Taylor Nelson Sofres and GfK agree on Pounds 2bn merger of equals

  - 2008-06-04

  Taylor Nelson Sofres TNS, the market research group, and Germany's GfK have agreed the details of a merger of equals to create a 2bn behemoth that would be the second largest company in the sector. But WPP, the global advertising giant, still has the option of tabling another...

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• Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) shareholders have rejected a 1bn [pounds sterling] bid from UK advertising giant WPP Group following its hostile bid for the company earlier this month.(INTERNATIONAL NEWS)

  - 2008-05-16

  Taylor Nelson Sofres TNS shareholders have rejected a 1bn [pounds sterling] bid from UK advertising giant WPP Group following its hostile bid for the company earlier this month. TNS shareholders are demanding a ... Taylor Nelson Sofres TNS shareholders have rejected a 1bn [pounds sterling]...

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• Taylor Nelson Sofres rejects WPP's revised Pounds 996m proposal

  - 2008-05-14

  Business News IN BRIEF *The market research giant Taylor Nelson Sofres yesterday snubbed a revised 996m takeover proposal from Sir Martin Sorrell's global advertising group WPP. TNS, which is in rival merger talks with the German information services group GfK, said its board had "unanimously" rejected a revised...

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• Taylor Nelson Sofres Selects Fortinet for Worldwide Security Deployment

  - 2008-04-21

  Fortinet® -- the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management UTM solutions -- today announced that Taylor Nelson Sofres TNS, the leading global market information provider, has chosen Fortinet's FortiGate™ multi-threat security systems as the cornerstone of its worldwide IT security strategy. Set to help protect 14,000 employees in...

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