WPP Group plc (LSE: WPP) (NASDAQ: WPPGY), based in London, United Kingdom, is the world's largest communications services group (and one of the big six advertising holding companies, the others being Omnicom, Interpublic, Publicis, Dentsu and Havas) employing 100,000 people working in more than 2,000 offices in 106 countries.^[1] Its self-conceived characterization is a "parent company," able to bring together the right combination of capabilities to serve a client's analytic and creative brand marketing needs. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... Sir Martin Sorrell (born February 14, 1945) is the chief executive officer of WPP and has served in that role since he started the company in 1986. ... Paul Richardson Paul Richardson is the home field organist at Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies. ... Chopper Read Mark Read (singer) This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... // Advert redirects here. ... For the Arrested Development episode, see Public Relations (Arrested Development episode). ... This article is about the political effort. ... For the tax agency in Ireland of the same name, see Revenue Commissioners. ... GBP redirects here. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), also known as operating income and operating profit, is a term used to describe a companys earnings. ... GBP redirects here. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... GBP redirects here. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... This article is about work. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... A subsidiary, in business, is an entity that is controlled by another entity. ... Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide is an advertising agency that has a worldwide presence. ... Young & Rubicam, Inc. ... JWT is the current name of the United States largest and worlds fourth largest advertising agency originally founded by William James Carlton in 1864 and renamed by James Walter Thompson in 1877 to The James Walter Thompson Company. ... // Hill & Knowlton Who are they? One of the world’s five largest public relations firms, was founded in 1927 by former journalist John Hill. ... Burson-Marsteller is one of the largest public relations agencies in the world. ... Cohn & Wolfe is a strategic marketing public relations firm dedicated to creating, building and protecting the world’s most prolific brands. ... One of the main objectives of Advertising and promotion is to establish what is called mind share (or share of mind). ... The largest and the smallest element of a set are called extreme values, absolute extrema, or extreme records. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC) is the worlds largest advertising agency holding company in terms of revenue (number two is WPP Group plc). ... The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. ... Logo Publicis Groupe (Euronext: PUB, NYSE: PUB) is a multinational advertising and communications company based in France. ... Dentsu Building in Shiodome, Tokyo Dentsu Inc. ... Havas was the first French news agency, created in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas. ...

History

Wire and Plastic Products plc was founded in 1971. In the early 1980s Martin Sorrell was searching for a public entity through which to build a worldwide marketing services company; what he wanted was a shell company, a vehicle for buying up other companies. Sorrell with a partner, needing a quoted company as the nucleus for acquisitions, bought a controlling stake of just under 30% in Wire and Plastic Products Plc at a cost of $676,000. Wire and Plastic Products plc at that time was a UK manufacturer of wire shopping baskets, wine racks, filing trays and assorted oddments. The holding company was renamed WPP Group in 1985 and Sorrell became its chief executive. Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... The 1980s was the decade spanning from 1980 to 1989, also called The Eighties. The decade saw social, economic and general upheaval as wealth, production and western culture migrated to new industrializing economies. ... Sir Martin Sorrell (born February 14, 1945) is the chief executive officer of WPP and has served in that role since he started the company in 1986. ...

Sorrell had been the financial director for the advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi from 1977 to 1985, managing its takeovers of companies in the US and the UK. In 1985, the same year Sorrell acquired control of WPP, the company acquired ten marketing companies in the US and the UK. This article is about the year. ...

WPP Group's advertising agency holdings include the Grey Global Group, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Young & Rubicam, and JWT (formerly known as J. Walter Thompson Co.), its public relations company holdings including Hill & Knowlton acquired via a hostile takeover in 1987, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in 1989 for $864 million,^{[citation needed]} Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe. Grey Global Group is a New York City-based global advertising and marketing agency. ... Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide is an advertising agency that has a worldwide presence. ... Young & Rubicam, Inc. ... JWT is the current name of the United States largest and worlds fourth largest advertising agency originally founded by William James Carlton in 1864 and renamed by James Walter Thompson in 1877 to The James Walter Thompson Company. ... // Hill & Knowlton Who are they? One of the world’s five largest public relations firms, was founded in 1927 by former journalist John Hill. ... Burson-Marsteller is one of the largest public relations agencies in the world. ... Cohn & Wolfe is a strategic marketing public relations firm dedicated to creating, building and protecting the world’s most prolific brands. ...

WPP's media investment management company holdings are operated by GroupM and include Mediaedge:cia, Mindshare, Maxus and MediaCom.

WPP research companies, forming a separate umbrella group known as Kantar Group, comprise BMRB, Added Value, Indian Market Research Bureau, Millward Brown, Management Ventures Inc. and Research International. Recently, in a drive to streamline processes and save costs, Kantar fused the operational groups within the UK, US and Canada to form Kantar Operations.^[2] The Kantar Group, a division of advertising giant WPP Group, is one of the worlds largest market research organizations. ... BMRB (British Market Research Bureau) is the longest established market research agency in Britain, dating from 1933. ... IMRB (Indian Market Research Bureau) International, a WPP Group company, is a market research company based in Mumbai, India. ... Millward Brown is a global market research company,[2] with its headquarters based in the United Kingdom. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

Industrial division

During 1986 WPP became the parent company of Picquotware. In November 1987 a fire destroyed the Northampton factory. Production restarted at another WPP group factory located at Burntwood in West Midlands. On the 25th November 2004 Wire & Plastic Products Ltd, part of WPP Group plc, closed the Burntwood factory and stopped manufacturing Picquotware. All assets were sold on 14 December 2004.

Delfinware Domestic Wireware, established in 1963 and manufacturing kitchen and bathroom wire racks, is a subsidiary of WPP Group (Wire & Plastic Products).

Governance

The company is governed by a board of directors, whose current members include Esther Dyson, Orit Gadiesh, David Komansky, Philip Lader, Christopher Mackenzie, Stanley Morten, Kōichirō Naganuma, Lubna Olayan, Howard Paster, John Quelch, Colin Day, Mark Read, Paul Richardson, Jeffrey Rosen, Martin Sorrell,and Paul Spencer. Chairman of the Board redirects here. ... Esther Dyson in San Francisco in 2005 Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. ... David H. Komansky (born 1939 in Mount Vernon, New York) who became chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch & Company in 1997. ... Philip Lader served as the US Ambassador to the Court of St. ... Lubna Olayan is a Saudi business woman, the youngest daughter of the late Sulaiman S. Olayan and one of the most influential businesswomen in the Middle East. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Jeffrey Rosen is an American academic and commentator on legal affairs. ... Sir Martin Sorrell (born February 14, 1945) is the chief executive officer of WPP and has served in that role since he started the company in 1986. ...

WPP companies

• 141 Worldwide
• 141 Sercon
• 20:20 Brand Action
• 24/7 RealMedia^[3]
• A Eicoff
• Added Value
• Addison Corporate Marketing
• Adient
• AGB Nielsen Media Research
• AGENDA
• Alliance
• Always Marketing
• Argonauten360
• Atlas Advertising
• AVHb2b
• Banner Corporation
• Bates Asia
• Bates PanGulf
• Batey
• BDG McColl
• BDGworkfutures
• BEN Marketing Group
• Beyond Interactive
• BJK&E
• BKSH
• Blanc & Otus
• Blast Radius
• Blue Interactive
• BMRB
• BPRI
• BrandBuzz
• Bridge Worldwide
• Brierley & Partners
• Brouillard
• bsb comunicacion
• Buchanan Communications
• Burson-Marsteller
• W|R, An Ogilvy PR Worldwide Company
• Cannondale Associates
• Carbon
• Carl Byoir & Associates
• Catalyst online
• CAW Marketing
• CBA
• Center Partners
• Chime Communications Plc
• Clarion Communications
• Clockwork Capital
• Cohn & Wolfe
• Coley Porter Bell
• CommonHealth
• Compas
• Conectics
• Contract Advertising
• D/R/Added Value
• David Communications Group
• Dentsu, Young & Rubicam
• Diamond Ogilvy
• Digit
• digital@JWT
• Digital PR
• Direct.com
• Dovetail
• drs Insight Group
• Dynamic Logic
• e-tecture
• Einson Freeman
• Equus
• Essence Communications
• Etcom
• Everystone Group
• EWA Bespoke Communications
• facts+fiction
• Feinstein Kean Healthcare (FKH)
• Ferguson
• Finsbury
• Fitch
• Focalyst
• Food Group
• Forward
• Fudge Group
• FullSIX
• Fusion5
• Futurecom interactive
• G WHIZ
• G2 Worldwide
• GCI Group
• Geometry
• George Patterson, Y&R
• Geppetto Group
• Glass
• Glendinning Management Consultants
• Global Sportnet
• goodtechnology
• Grass Roots
• Grey Direct
• Grey Group
• Grey Healthcare
• Grey Interactive
• Grey
• Grey3
• GroupM
• Headcount
• Henley Centre Headlight Vision
• HighCo
• Hill & Knowlton
• HLS (Health Learning Systems)
• HMA Blaze
• IBI Inc
• IBOPE Media Information
• icon brand navigation group
• iconmobile group
• IdeaWorks
• IEG
• IMRB International
• Information Design Unit
• IPAN (India Public Affairs Network)
• J. Brown
• Joshua-G2
• JWT
• JWT Specialized Communications
• Kang & Lee Advertising
• Kantar Group
• Kantya Brand Strategies
• Kinetic Worldwide
• KMR Group
• KnowledgeBase Marketing
• KR Media
• Lambie-Nairn
• Landor Associates
• LG Ad Inc
• Lightspeed Research
• LiveWorld-WPP
• Lorien Consulting
• Malone Advertising
• Management Ventures
• Mando Brand Assurance
• Marsteller
• Maruri Publicidad
• Mattson Jack Group
• Maxus
• Maxx Marketing
• MBS/Vox
• MDS Global Consulting
• MEC Interaction
• MEC:Access
• Media Insight
• Media Puzzle
• Media+
• MediaCom Worldwide
• Mediaedge:cia
• Mediapro Group
• Medical Broadcasting Company
• Metro Broadcast
• Millward Brown
• MindShare
• MJM
• MosaicaMD
• Motivator
• Noesis
• Offspring PR
• Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
• Ogilvy Healthworld
• Ogilvy Primary Contact
• Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
• OgilvyInteractive
• OgilvyOne Worldwide
• Outrider
• ohal
• PACE
• The PBN co.
• Penn Schoen & Berland Associates
• Performance
• Performance SportEnt Worldwide
• PiranhaKid Communications
• Plush Films
• PPR
• PQ Plakat Qualitact
• Premiere Sponsorship Marketing
• PRISM
• Pro Deo
• ProCom
• Public Strategies Inc
• Qi
• Quantum Corporation
• Quinn Gillespie
• Red Cell
• Reddion
• Research International
• RMG Connect
• RMS Instore
• Robinson Lerer & Montgomery
• Roman Brand Group
• RPCA
• RTC Relationship Marketing
• santamaria
• Schematic
• SCPF
• SMG KRC
• Soho Square
• Solara
• Spafax
• Sprint Production
• STO Response
• Strategic Horizons
• Studiocom
• Sudler & Hennessey
• Syzygy
• Team UK Media
• Teledirect
• The Brand Shop
• The Brand Union
• The Bravo Group
• the campaign palace / red cell
• The Channel
• The Farm
• The Focus Network
• The Initiatives Group
• The Leverage Group
• The MC Group
• The Partners
• These Days
• The Store
• The Voluntarily United Group of Creative Agencies
• Timmons and Company
• Uniworld Group
• VBAT
• VML, Inc.
• WalkerGroup
• Warwicks
• Westbourne Terrace Management Services Ltd
• Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates
• WINGLATINO
• Wire and Plastic Products
• Wunderman
• Xchange
• XM London
• XM Gulf
• XM Asia Pacific
• Y&R
• Ziment Group

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References

1. ^ WPP - WPP at a glance
2. ^ Kantar Operations
3. ^ Free Preview - WSJ.com

External links

• WPP official website
• WPP on Google Finance
• Research International France
• WPP: World Propaganda Power
• Picquot Ware history
• WPP: company history

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The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (LSE: RBS) is a banking and insurance holding company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.[1] It includes the The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (Scottish Gaelic: [2]) founded in 1727 by a Royal Charter of King George I.[3] The RBS Group is... Royal Dutch Shell plc is a multinational oil company of British and Dutch origins. ... SABMiller (South African Breweries - Miller) (LSE: SAB, JSE: SAB,Official site) is one of the world’s largest brewers, with brewing interests and distribution agreements in over 60 countries across six continents. ... The Sage Group plc (LSE: SGE) is a leading UK based supplier of accounting, payroll, CRM and business management software (including manufacturing and construction-specific ranges) as well as related services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). ... This article is about the supermarket business. ... Schroders plc is a British investment management company with its headquarters in the City of London. ... 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