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Public company profits fall by half, or not?

The striking feature of yesterday's Fintellect report (see below) is not that eleven publicly listed marketing companies have suffered on average a 55% fall in profits between the first half of 2008 and the first half of 2009, but that many of those...

Posted Oct 03 2009, 11:37 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: WPP, Motivcom, public companies, Hasgrove, Aegis, Huntsworth, M&C Saatchi, Next Fifteen Communications Group, Chime Communications, Cello Group, Mission Marketing Group, Adventis

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M&C Saatchi in pretty good shape after profit fall

At first sight a 24.7% fall in operating profit is not good news, but at M&C Saatchi it could have been much worse if its balance sheet was not relatively strong. Indeed the reasons for the decline announced last week were predictable and not life...

Posted Sep 28 2009, 11:34 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

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Aegis loses CFO in board reshuffle that puts non-execs back in majority

Today's announcement that Aegis Group's chief financial officer Alicja Lesniak will be leaving the company in October is the latest of the moves made by part-time chairman and interim chief executive John Napier to "complete the major part...

Posted Jul 16 2009, 09:13 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

Filed under: WPP, public companies, Aegis, Vincent Bollore, ICI, McKinsey, Guinness, Unilever

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WPP’s half year results critical to confidence in the sector

If yesterday's fall in WPP's share price was the result of an advance leak to analysts of the group's half year results to be announced next month, it should come as no great surprise. The group had already acknowledged that revenues were...

Posted Jul 03 2009, 01:11 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: global groups, WPP, Taylor Nelson Sofres, public companies

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Interpublic well prepared to minimise damage from US car bankruptcies?

WPP seems so far to have avoided the consequences of the US car-makers' bankruptcies - or is keeping very quiet about it - but of the three other major global marketing groups affected the Interpublic Group seems to have been fairly well prepared...

Posted Jun 05 2009, 06:35 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: global groups, WPP, Publicis, Omnicom, Interpublic, General Motors, Starcom Mediavest, Chrysler

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WPP’s profit being squeezed between lower revenues and higher costs

WPP Group shareholders learned today that its pre-tax profit for the first four months of 2009 has been caught in a pincer movement between revenue shortfalls and cost increases. In particular the timing of the Taylor Nelson Sofres acquisition is proving...

Posted Jun 02 2009, 06:57 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: WPP, Taylor Nelson Sofres

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Mission funding negotiations completed at a high price

The Mission Marketing Group has successfully completed negotiations with its bankers and former shareholders of acquired companies on the restructuring of its borrowings (see Mission facing funding challenge ), but will be paying its bankers fees that...

Posted May 23 2009, 01:44 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: WPP, public companies, Cagney, Mission Marketing Group

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Some pearls from WPP’s annual report

There's always something interesting to find in WPP's high quality and informative annual report. One of this year's snippets is the fact that the group would have made less operating profit if it had owned Taylor Nelson Sofres and various...

Posted May 14 2009, 10:53 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: global groups, WPP, public companies, 24/7 Real Media

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WPP becomes global leader but predicts lower margins as recession bites

As we predicted in March (see Revenue up 20% but profit down at WPP ), WPP has overtaken Omnicom as the biggest marketing services group in the world. But at the same time the group has warned of lower margins in 2009 as revenues fall below budget. Boosted...

Posted Apr 28 2009, 02:58 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: global groups, WPP, Taylor Nelson Sofres, Publicis, Omnicom, Interpublic

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Tentative signs that stock market is stabilising: some marketing groups enjoy big rises

Tentative signs that the London stock market is stabilising may be drawn from the 8.4% rise in the FTSE All-Share Index during the month to 12 April. Among marketing services companies the share price movements were anything but consistent, although several...

Posted Apr 13 2009, 10:10 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: WPP, Media Square, Motivcom, public companies, Creston, WPP Group, Havas, Hasgrove, Digital Marketing Group, Aegis, Groupe Bolloré, Huntsworth, M&C Saatchi, Next Fifteen Communications Group, Optimisa, Chime Communications, Cello Group, Cagney, Vincent Bollore

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WPP still propping up its share price

Why have shares in WPP Group and Aegis Group - the two biggest UK marketing services groups listed on the London stock exchange - been enjoying more price stability than many of their counterparts over the past month? At Aegis it's easy to guess that...

Posted Mar 17 2009, 04:51 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

Filed under: global groups, WPP, public companies, Havas, Aegis, Merrill Lynch

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WPP share price helped by buyback of its own shares

WPP Group has bought back almost 1.5 million shares since it announced its results for 2008 last Friday (see Revenue up 20%, but profit down at WPP ). The cost of the purchases was almost £6 million. WPP's share price was 374.25p immediately prior...

Posted Mar 10 2009, 07:02 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: global groups, WPP, public companies

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Revenue up 20%, but profit down at WPP

Profits and margins at WPP Group actually fell last year despite achieving a 20% growth in revenues - by far the best growth rate achieved among the five global "majors" as predicted currency movements made a sizeable contribution (see WPP could...

Posted Mar 06 2009, 11:09 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: global groups, WPP, Taylor Nelson Sofres, Omnicom

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Dentsu buys out remaining shares in Cyber for $134m

In a move presented as a strategic expansion into the digital marketing sector, the Japanese marketing group Dentsu has paid an astonishingly high price to buy the 53% of Cyber Communications that it does not already own. The deal, announced at the end...

Posted Feb 06 2009, 07:47 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

Filed under: global groups, WPP, Dentsu, Cyber Communications

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Odds still seem stacked against successful Bolloré bid for Aegis

If Vincent Bolloré has serious designs on acquiring Aegis Group - whether to merge it with Havas or otherwise - now may not be the best time to make an offer. The departure of chief executive Robert Lerwill and the downward fall in its share price may...

Posted Dec 01 2008, 06:27 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: WPP, Taylor Nelson Sofres, public companies, Havas, Aegis, Groupe Bolloré, Harris Interactive

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Public company profits fall by half, or not?

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M&C Saatchi in pretty good shape after profit fall

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Aegis loses CFO in board reshuffle that puts non-execs back in majority

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WPP’s half year results critical to confidence in the sector

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Interpublic well prepared to minimise damage from US car bankruptcies?

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WPP’s profit being squeezed between lower revenues and higher costs

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Mission funding negotiations completed at a high price

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Some pearls from WPP’s annual report

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WPP becomes global leader but predicts lower margins as recession bites

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Tentative signs that stock market is stabilising: some marketing groups enjoy big rises

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WPP still propping up its share price

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WPP share price helped by buyback of its own shares

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Revenue up 20%, but profit down at WPP

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Dentsu buys out remaining shares in Cyber for $134m

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Odds still seem stacked against successful Bolloré bid for Aegis