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WPP Plc is a creative transformation company, which engages in the provision of communications services. It operates through the following segments: Global Integrated Agencies, Public Relations, and Specialist Agencies. The Global Integrated Agencies segment offers creative services including advertising, marketing, and brand strategies and campaigns across all media. The Public Relations segment helps clients communicate with all stakeholders, from consumers and investors to government and non-government organizations. The Specialist Agencies segment delivers brand experience and identity, and specialist, targeted services. The company was founded by Martin Stuart Sorrell in 1985 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Advertising giant WPP is merging its storied creative agency Grey Global Group with its digital advertising shop AKQA to form AKQA Group, with the Grey brand phasing out over time, per The Wall Street Journal.

WPP will merge Grey and AKQA to streamline operations, the ad giant's third consolidation in two years

LONDON & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP's AKQA and Grey are uniting to form a new network model, AKQA Group. Grey is renowned for creative storytelling and global brand-building at scale, while AKQA is celebrated for its world-class innovation and experience design skills. With heightened demand for digital transformation and technology-driven capabilities, the combination will create a powerful new proposition for clients as a leading creative solutions company with a worldwide footprint. The

WPP Creates AKQA Group

Walgreens

DEERFIELD, Ill. & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) has selected WPP (NYSE: WPP) as its global marketing and communications agency. WPP will work with WBA to implement its integrated mass-personalization marketing strategy and reputation-management communications strategy in support of the company's strategic priorities. WPP was first appointed in 2017 as WBA's global marketing and communications agency. Following a six-month review initiated in May 2020, WBA and W

Walgreens Boots Alliance Renews and Extends Relationship with WPP to Accelerate Digital Transformation and Deep Focus on Communications

NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ogilvy announced today that Kate Cronin has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ogilvy Health. Effective immediately, Kate will be responsible for driving all aspects of Ogilvy Health's business globally. In this new global role, she will also serve as a member of Ogilvy's global leadership team.

Ogilvy Appoints Kate Cronin to Global Role as CEO of Ogilvy Health

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE: WPP) today announces the appointment of Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang to its Board as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 January 2021. A world-renowned technologist, scientist and entrepreneur, Dr. Zhang served as President of Baidu Inc, the global internet services and AI company headquartered in Beijing, between 2014 and 2019. As President, he oversaw the company's overall technologies, emerging businesses and global operations. Prior to joining Baid

WPP appoints Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang to the Board

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE: WPP) today announces the appointment of Tom Ilube CBE to its Board as an independent Non-Executive Director with immediate effect. Tom is a technology entrepreneur and educational philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of AIM-listed Crossword Cybersecurity Plc, a technology commercialisation company focused on the cyber security sector and has previously founded several other technology start-ups. He is a Non-Executive Director of the BBC, where

WPP Appoints Tom Ilube CBE to the Board

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Should Value Investors Pick WPP plc (WPP) Stock Right Now?

WPP: Undervalued And Prepared For A Digital Future

Facebook Ad Boycott Had ‘Little Impact’ Says WPP Founder Martin Sorrell

Martin Sorrell, the founder of the world's largest advertising and PR group, said the Facebook advertising boycott only had a "little impact."

Ex-WPP CEO Martin Sorrell says Facebook advertising boycott had ‘little impact’

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zespri International Limited has selected an interdisciplinary team of WPP (NYSE: WPP) agencies as its global Agency of Record (AOR) to deliver its brand proposition, “Make Your Healthy Irresistible”, through communications, experience, commerce and technology. Zespri is the world’s leading kiwifruit brand, working on behalf of more than 4300 growers in New Zealand and around the world with operating revenues of US$2.2billion.

World’s largest kiwifruit marketer Zespri appoints WPP global integrated team

MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Whirlpool EMEA has selected WPP (NYSE: WPP) as its strategic communications partner across 29 EMEA countries, effective from January 2021. WPP will support Whirlpool MDA business objectives with an international, integrated team based in Milan, drawing on talent from across the EMEA region, including Wunderman Thompson, VMLY&R, m/Six, BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe), Geometry, Hogarth and AKQA.

Whirlpool EMEA Appoints WPP Its EMEA Communications Partner

Remark Hlds

WPP plc (WPP) CEO Mark Read on Q2 2020 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE: WPP) today reported its 2020 Interim Results. Key figures – continuing operations £ million H1 2020 ∆ reported1 ∆ LFL2 H1 20193 Revenue 5,583 -12.3% -11.5% 6,368 Revenue less pass-through costs 4,668 -10.2% -9.5% 5,199           Reported:         Operating (loss)/profit (2,453) - - 596 (Loss)/profit before tax (2,581) - - 409 Diluted EPS (p) (214.5) - - 21.4 Dividends per share (p) 10.0 -55.9% - 22.7           Headline4:         Operating profit 38

WPP 2020 Interim Results

NEW YORK, July  28, 2020  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ogilvy Health today announced industry-renowned creative lead Renata Florio has joined the agency as chief creative officer (CCO), where she will have creative oversight of all of the agency’s US-based offices. Renata joins Ogilvy Health from Ogilvy’s New York office where she served as a global executive creative director overseeing creative for its health and wellness offerings for the past three years.

Award-Winning Creative Renata Florio Appointed Chief Creative Officer for Ogilvy Health

Bank of Nova Scotia

British American Tobacco

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Canadian Natural Resources

Chevron

Con Ed

Enbridge

Fresenius Medical Care

L'Oreal SA

Micro Focus International PLC

Prudential Financial

Royal Bank of Canada

Suncor Energy

AT&T

Exxon Mobil

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Kiplinger's 'Most Reliable Dividend Stocks On Earth' Shows 16 Buys For July

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has today named WPP (NYSE:WPP) as holding company of the decade. Cannes Lions is the world’s leading event and awards programme for the creative marketing community. This year’s special global rankings recognise those companies which have demonstrated the greatest sustained creative excellence, based on winning and shortlisted work over the last 10 years. Among the Lions awarded between 2010 and 2019, WPP

WPP Named Most Creative Communications Company of the Decade by Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WPP (NYSE:WPP) has been named a Leader among Adobe Implementation Service Providers by Forrester Research, Inc., out of a field of the 12 most significant service providers invited to participate in the study. The report identifies that “Design and consulting capabilities, combined with expertise on Adobe’s growing product suite, differentiate the Leaders from the pack.” The report, The Forrester Wave™: Adobe Implementation Services, Q2 2020, assessed provide

WPP Named a Leader Among Adobe Implementation Service Providers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ecolab, a global leader in sanitization and disinfection services for leading multinational companies in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial sectors, has hired a team of WPP (NYSE:WPP) agencies to collaborate on an effort to help the world’s leading brands build confidence in their consumers entering the post-COVID-19 economy. COVID-19 has made Ecolab’s services especially pertinent to brands as their consumers decide where to eat, work and shop as market

Ecolab Partners with WPP to Help Leading Brands Reassure Consumers Entering Post-COVID-19 Economy

Criteo

Fluent Inc

Interpublic Group of Companies

MDC Partners

Omnicom Group

Ad spending will drop a formidable 13% this year, but that's less than the 16% plunge recorded in 2009. TV is taking a hard hit, especially local.

Advertising Declines Won’t Be As Steep As Great Recession

Though advertising has taken a whalloping in recent months as a result of the pandemic, a new forecast says the impact on U.S. ad spending won't be quite as dire as they were during the financial crisis.

Ad spending decline won't be as bad this year as it was in the 2009 financial crisis, new study predicts

Will The New Normal Leave WPP Behind?

NEW YORK, May  19, 2020  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ogilvy Health, one of Ogilvy’s three global practices ( www.ogilvy.com ), today announced Nelson Figueiredo, the agency’s VP, Director of Technology, has been named as one of the 2020 PM360 ELITE 100 by healthcare marketing industry trade magazine PM360.  

Ogilvy Health’s Figueiredo Honored as one of PM360’s ELITE 100

Alphabet

Twitter

But though there appeared to be some green shoots from the tech giants in the realm of advertising, companies warned impacts will be felt in the second quarter and, in some areas, beyond.

Big tech and ad firms were relatively unscathed by declining ad revenue in Q1, but Q2 outlook is darker

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing the world's biggest advertising company WPP  to accelerate its strategy of bringing its multiple agencies together to produce work more quickly for clients battling to cut costs.

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