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Posts Tagged ‘WPP Group’

Published 15th Feb 2011, 18:51

Omnicom’s results look disappointing compared to Publicis

Omnicom Group’s 7% growth in revenue during 2010 fell far short of that reported by Publicis Groupe last week (see Publicis impresses with 2010 results).   Nevertheless both groups showed better... Read more
Published 13th Jan 2011, 10:16

Sector share prices: January 2011

Last year’s shares price movements resemble a curate’s egg. Twice as many publicly listed marcoms companies will be celebrating share price rises in 2010 than are mourning declines, but... Read more
Published 5th Jan 2011, 10:00

Global agencies suffer 5.2% revenue decline: two-thirds hit by falling profits

Agency revenues earned by the largest publicly listed marketing groups around the world fell by 5.2% in 2009 according to a survey of their most recently published accounts. Two-thirds of the... Read more
Published 15th Nov 2010, 17:17

Sector share prices – November 2010

The variable quality of publicly listed marketing groups was highlighted last month by the wide range of individual share price movements.  While the FTSE All-Share Index continued to... Read more
Published 29th Oct 2010, 18:33

US recovery fuels WPP’s growth

WPP group’s revenues jumped by 12.2% in the latest quarter, thanks to an economic resurgence in the US and the weakness of sterling in foreign exchange markets. Underlying like-for-like... Read more
Published 20th Sep 2010, 15:34

Who will buy this digital gem?

While it comes as no surprise to hear that AKQA is in talks about selling out and thereby realising a gain for shareholders like private equity investor General Atlantic Partners, it does seem a... Read more
Published 4th Sep 2010, 10:44

Geoff Howe realises one of his most valuable assets

Marketing entrepreneur Geoff Howe may have realised his most valuable business asset when his company sold its US operations to WPP Group last month. The US subsidiary Geoff Howe Marketing... Read more
Published 31st Aug 2010, 22:41

Havas struggles to raise revenues, but profits recover to 2008 level

Havas has succeeded in restoring its post-tax profit for the first half of 2010 to the same level as it achieved two years ago, but on lower revenues. The modest profit recovery, announced today, was... Read more
Published 30th Aug 2010, 07:28

There’s one good thing to say about the Aegis half year results.

The one good thing that can be said about Aegis Group’s latest half year results to 30 June, announced this morning, is that the whole of a £20 million increase in gross income (revenues less... Read more
Published 24th Aug 2010, 14:57

Shock horror: WPP mistakenly reports profit slump instead of 39% rise

It’s not the best advertisement for a massive global communications group’s digital expertise when it uploads the wrong half year's financial results to the stock market, but that is what WPP... Read more
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