News highlights
- WPP announces 2006 Preliminary Results - Press Release
Martin Sorrell discusses results on CNN - Interview
Billings up 13% to £30.1 billion
Reported revenue up almost 10% to £5.9 billion
Like-for-like revenue up 5.4%
- WPP appoints Peter Stringham CEO of Young & Rubicam Brands
WPP has appointed Peter Stringham, until recently Head of Group Marketing at HSBC, as CEO of Young and Rubicam Brands with immediate effect. He succeeds Ann Fudge who retired at the end of last year.
- Landor has released its third annual Newsmaker Brands Survey which ranks the top 10 "winning and losing" brands of the current year and predicts the same for the following year. Contact Mindy Romero (mindy_romero@nyc.landor.com).
- Hill & Knowlton Asia Pacific launches Legal & Regulatory Communications
Hill & Knowlton Asia Pacific's Corporate Practice launched a Legal & Regulatory Communications service to help companies involved in legal action protect corporate and brand reputation. It will also assist businesses pursuing litigation, regulatory change or those simply trying to navigate their way through complex regulatory environments involving hearings.
- Grey launches in Vietnam with local business star; convenes regional meeting with Global Chairman & Vice Chairman
Grey Global Group launched Grey Global Group Vietnam, a joint venture office with leading Vietnamese entrepreneur David Thai, founder of Viet Thai International, at a gala celebration at Ho Chi Minh City's Reunification Palace. Nirvik Singh is the architect of the venture in partnership with Viet Thai International, a leading Vietnamese conglomerate with interests in coffee - including the successful Highlands Coffee chain - as well as ventures in finance, construction and retail. Contact Susan Reingold (+852 9197 1084).
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- GroupM promotes Rupert Day to COO Worldwide, Marc Goldstein appointed CEO GroupM North America, and Scott Neslund named President & CEO of MindShare North America
- PRISM appoints NFL executive Michael Capiraso as its CEO for North America
Awards
- GroupM in the No.1 spot in the Gunn Report for Media as the most awarded media group worldwide
- Mediaedge:cia named Global Media Agency of the Year by AdAge and Adweek.
- MindShare named US Media Agency of the Year by Adweek
- SAA/Y&R Tel Aviv wins Agency of the Year for the seventh time
- MindShare India named Agency of the Year at the Indira Award for Marketing Excellence
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Pay Attention, Please!
Audience engagement is an area of keen interest for brands and marketers; but with the growing adoption of technologies that facilitate the fragmentation of attention, creating engagement with consumers is becoming harder. MEC MediaLab, Mediaedge:cia's consumer insight and ROI division, examined multi-tasking and 'partial-attention' behaviour, and their effects on receptivity to communication, in order to help us understand how we might more actively engage audiences whose attention is fragmented or partial. Contact Mu Ali (mu.ali@mecglobal.com).
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"No major multinational will want to miss the platform offered by the Olympics. Equally, no major multinational will ignore the opportunities presented by China". Martin Sorrell explains why China is so important to WPP - and so many of its clients.
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