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CHI & Partners continued to generate a healthy profit in its second full year with WPP Group as a 49.9% shareholder. The pre-tax profit for the year to 30 September 2009 before... Read more
The most important component of Sir Martin Sorrell’s update to WPP Group shareholders at Tuesday’s annual meeting was the public acknowledgement of a basic truth: if you do what you are paid to... Read more
Further evidence - if ever it was required – that well regarded marketing services companies’ share prices run ahead of (and over-react to) underlying economic conditions is provided by the... Read more
Share prices of marcoms companies that comprise Fintellect’s MSFI Index have begun to recover at a faster rate than the FTSE All-Share Index. But there’s a big gap to fill. The MSFI Index has... Read more
The founders of digital marketing agency Grand Union Communications will share 90% of the sale proceeds from selling out to the European agency FullSIX International last month, but the amount... Read more
Interpublic is continuing to struggle along a rocky road to recovery as it reported a loss last week of $71.5 million for the quarter to 31 March, almost unchanged from the result reported for the... Read more
It came as something of a surprise to read earlier this month that WPP Group had bought a minority shareholding in loss-making e-commerce software provider E-Commera Holdings. The size of the stake... Read more
A year ago the stock market was at its lowest point for many years. Not surprisingly, shares in marketing services companies had fallen even more sharply than most others, as investors worried... Read more
Given the harsh economic climate WPP Group may be fairly pleased with its results for last year. Revenues grew by 16.1% and outstripped those of Omnicom substantially (see chart), while... Read more
Today’s announcement that WPP’s specialist experiential and digital consultancy Fitch Live is to close after running up losses will come as no great surprise. It lost £1.5 million in the... Read more