• WPP five month trading update
  WPP's trading update for the first five months of 2006 indicates reported revenues up over 17%, constant currency revenues up over 13% and like-for-like revenues up over 4.5%
• GroupM acquires online word-of-mouth specialist M80
  GroupM has acquired Los Angeles-based M80, an online word-of-mouth marketing company. M80 clients include Microsoft, Universal Music Group and Twentieth Century Fox
• Millward Brown joins with ACSR in China
  Millward Brown has acquired All China Strategic Research, a leading market research agency based in Beijing, and with offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou
• OgilvyOne acquires B2B specialist Leopard
  OgilvyOne North America has acquired Colorado-based Leopard, a B2B marketing and sales specialist. Leopard clients include SAP, IBM and Motorola

• Young & Rubicam has won strategic planning and creative duties for Sony across South East Asia, the Indian sub-continent, South Africa, the Middle East and Australasia
• SCANA Corp. has signed JWT Atlanta to develop and implement integrated marketing strategies for its energy subsidiaries, alongside RMG Connect and MindShare
• Wunderman has picked up recruitment website Monster's pan-European customer relationship marketing account. Mediaedge:cia had secured European media planning ad buying duties in April
• Hill & Knowlton has been appointed official global communications consultancy to South Korean third city Daegu's 2011 IAAF World Championship Athletics bid

• Steve Lin has been appointed new leader for Grey Global Group Greater China, having previously served as Chairman of JWT's highly awarded agency in Taiwan
• Zuza Tupinambá has been named President of Ogilvy & Mather Brazil. He joins from EURO RSCG, where he was CEO
• Tony Jewell has joined Burson-Marsteller as Managing Director of its Strategic Team, having served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs for Policy and Strategy at the US Department of Health and Human Services
• JWT London has hired Hugh Duthrie as Head of Planning, reporting to office CEO Alison Burns. Duthrie was formerly the top planner at TBWA\Chiat\Day in New York

• The Leverage Group together with Ogilvy PR Worldwide won an unprecedented three Cause Marketing Halo Awards for work for the Jones Apparel Group
• Burson-Marsteller took home five Golds at the European SABRE ceremony in Berlin, and was also named the Best Multinational Agency to work for in Europe. GCI London won best Retail Campaign at the same awards

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