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...Walter Thompson, New York, April 15 1976; Pete Rozelle, commissioner, National Football League, New York, July 7 1976; Daniel Boorstin, librarian of US Congress, Washington, DC, July 29 1976 Fifth row:...
...Advertising house WPP has named Mark Read as its chief executive, succeeding Martin Sorrell at the group that owns companies including Group M, Ogilvy & Mather and J Walter Thompson....
...His landmark takeovers — of J Walter Thompson and the Ogilvy Group — coincided with hits for Rick Astley and Jive Bunny. He then built a global network through bolt-ons and some more big deals....
...It also follows the departure of Gustavo Martinez who quit as chief executive of J Walter Thompson in March after a female colleague accused him of harassment....
...WPP, the owner of Ogilvy & Mather, Group M and J Walter Thompson, has led losses over the past 12 months, shedding 19 per cent as it issued two sales warnings, reported a drop in 2017 revenues and said challenging...
...A flurry of deals saw J. Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, Young & Rubicam and Grey added to WPP’s portfolio. Other companies, such as the media buying giant GroupM, were created in-house....
...Sir Martin used it to buy everything from J Walter Thompson to Young & Rubicam and to defy the broader trend against holding companies....
...The UK generated like for like revenue growth in the quarter but WPP, which owns agencies such as J Walter Thompson and media buying companies such as Group M, said all other regions – particularly North...
...The company disclosed late on Friday that losses from hurricanes that affected the southern US and Puerto Rico and from an earthquake in Mexico had tipped its insurance underwriting business into a $1.4bn...
...One person close to the advertising holding company, which owns agencies such as J Walter Thompson and Group M, expressed concern about decision-making on the board of ADK, pointing to the company’s recent...
...And yet a report last week by J Walter Thompson and Mindshare, a global media agency network, argued that consumer brands should be excited about domestic smart speakers....
...Lucie Greene, worldwide director of the Innovation Group at J Walter Thompson Intelligence, says the key to Tiffany’s success on the platform has been adapting its content and tone of voice....
...Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, built the former wire basket company into the industry’s largest holding company through acquisitions of famed creative agencies such as Ogilvy, J Walter Thompson...
...In other sectors, J Walter Thompson just sealed a deal with local partner Mango Marketing to tap the nascent advertising and marketing sectors, while Japan’s Dentsu has set up shop....
...It employs 8,000 internal staff and 90,000 contractors working in the UK, Europe, the US, Puerto Rico, the Middle East and Pacific Rim....
...Judie Lannon, its editor and a former planner at J Walter Thompson, says: “Marketers get distracted by the accountability pressures, all the New Age agencies that report to them and all the online one-hit...
...countries, which include, among others, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Aruba, Haiti, the Netherlands Antilles, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Mexico,...
...Rico, beginning June 10....
...He used the money to court five Fidelity traders, paying for private flights to Turks and Caicos, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, as well as vintage wines, golf outings, and trips to Wimbledon and the US Open...
...This new spectrum includes 20 MHz in Southeast, Central, West, Puerto Rico as well as 30 MHz in Hawaii. Today, we have at least 10 MHz of AWS spectrum across the entire Continental U.S....
...The original sin, in this case, was probably committed more than a century ago by an ambitious US advertising broker by the name of James Walter Thompson, founder of the J Walter Thompson agency, now known...
...Pity those hard-working folks at JWT, the WPP unit formerly known as J Walter Thompson. It is the hard-luck agency of the London advertising world....
...■1987 The renamed WPP pays $566m for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, including Hill and Knowlton in public relations. ■1989 Ogilvy & Mather bought for $864m....
...But, as Michael Kaplan and Brad Reagan reveal in their book Aces and Kings, when Pearson joined the Navy in 1946 he began to clean up at poker and pool - during an 18-month tour of duty in Puerto Rico he...
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