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WPP plc, (Wire and Plastic Products) is a British multinational advertising and public relations company with its main management office in London, England, and its executive office in Dublin, Ireland. It is the world's largest advertising company by revenues, and employs around 179,000 people in 3,000 offices across 111 countries. It owns a number of advertising, public relations and market research networks, including Millward Brown, Grey, Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton, JWT, Ogilvy & Mather, TNS, Young & Rubicam and Cohn & Wolfe.
WPP has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has a secondary listing on NASDAQ.
Wire and Plastic Products plc was founded in 1971 as a manufacturer of wire shopping baskets. In 1985 Martin Sorrell, searching for a listed company through which to build a worldwide marketing services company, bought a controlling stake of just under 30% at a cost of $676,000. Sorrell had been the financial director for the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi from 1977 to 1985, managing its takeovers of companies in the US and the UK. The holding company was renamed WPP Group and in 1987 Sorrell became its chief executive.
WPP plc is a British multinational advertising and public relations company with its main management office in London, England, and its executive office in Dublin, Ireland. It is the world's largest advertising company by revenues, and employs around 162,000 people in 3,000 offices across 110 countries. It owns a number of advertising, public relations and market research networks, including Grey, Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton, JWT, Ogilvy Group, TNS, Young & Rubicam and Cohn & Wolfe. WPP has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has a secondary listing on NASDAQ. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video
June 30 (Bloomberg) --- WPP Plc Chief Executive Officer Martin Sorrell discusses social media and marketing with Bloomberg's Stephanie Ruhle. (Source: Bloomberg) -- Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg Bloomberg Television offers extensive coverage and analysis of international business news and stories of global importance. It is available in more than 310 million households worldwide and reaches the most affluent and influential viewers in terms of household income, asset value and education levels. With production hubs in London, New York and Hong Kong, the network provides 24-hour continuous coverage of the people, companies and ideas that move the markets.
In 2015, WPP, the world’s largest communications services group, signed one of the biggest and most ambitious real estate deals in Shanghai’s history. Today, over 3,000 people from 26 different companies call the WPP campus in the Jing’An district home. At JLL, we help companies, and the people the power them, #AchieveAmbitions. Learn more at http://www.jll.com/our-brand
Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP CEO discusses with The Drum's Stephen Lepitak how the advertising network landscape is changing with the evolution of digital and the appearance of major tech companies such as Google and Facebook. Here he talks about the evolution of the client/agency relationship.
During a WSJ panel at the Cannes Lions advertising festival on Wednesday, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell revealed how much the world's largest ad holding company spent for clients annually on non-traditional media such as Google and Facebook. Subscribe to the WSJ channel here: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy More from the Wall Street Journal: Visit WSJ.com: http://www.wsj.com Follow WSJ on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wsjvideo Follow WSJ on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+wsj/posts Follow WSJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJvideo Follow WSJ on Instagram: http://instagram.com/wsj Follow WSJ on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/wsj/
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- In today's "Single Best Chart," Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu displays the advertising dollars attracted by print compared to other forms of media, with comments from Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive officer at WPP. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." -- Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg "Bloomberg's Surveillance" is a radio and TV business news show, featuring in-depth interviews with well-known business leaders, market analysts and leading economists. The show is hosted by Tom Keene and Scarlet Fu and includes frequent insight and analysis from economics editor Mike McKee. "Bloomberg Surveillance" covers market news, breaking news, finance, investment, global economics, business leaders and influencers, as well as the headlines ...
Tomorrow's coming 'round
A hair-pin curve in the road
She's got a run in her stocking
And she's missing the heel of her shoe
Got up this morning rolled out of bed
I spilled a diet coke
Called my mother said, "Hi"
What I meant to say was, "Why is your life a joke?"
Then, I went down to that ugly bar and
I clicked my heels three times just like you said
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The anticipation was a turn on
But you let me down
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I said, "I'm ready for my close up now, Mr. Demille"
I waited for the light, but it never shone
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You're legs feel like sandpaper, you can't do anything right"
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Oh yeah, something else
I hope one day you call up your father
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And he made you hurt another