The Sage of Soho, Sir Martin Sorrell, cheers investors as he defies the doomsters and refuses to lower the growth forecast for advertising giant WPP... more
Howzat! WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell was in action at Sir Victor Blank's charity cricket match over the weekend when he suffered a minor travesty of justice at the hands of former CBI chief Lord Jones, aka ex-trade minister Digby Jones... more
As the first Lord's Test match gets under way today, a copy of Cricket, Wonderful Cricket, a new book by former financial PR man and sometime Evening Standard columnist John Duncan, lands on City Spy's desk... more
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell dismisses the threat of a fresh advertising slowdown, saying that "the double-dippers" will be disappointed as revenues and profits are ahead of expectations... more
That Sir Martin Sorrell, you cross him at your peril. The WPP king did not get where he is today by allowing business to walk out of the door - the traditional advertising industry story of the group of guys breaking away to form their own agency is simply not allowed to happen on Sorrell's watch... more
Economic Analysis: Britain and its peers in Western Europe are lower league teams compared with Brazil, Russia, India and China in Sir Martin Sorrell's football rankings... more
Nick Clegg surely did himself no favours in the final TV debate by referring to the “chancellors and vice-chancellors” of the three main parties being involved in post-election talks on the economy... more
Sir Martin Sorrell, boss of the world’s biggest advertising company WPP, warns that a new government must tackle the public deficit and the British economy will fall behind European rivals as a result... more
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell sounds a more optimistic note about the state of global advertising but expects the economy to struggle after the election... more
Advertising and Marketing: Sir Martin Sorrell calls it “insanity”. Some media-buying agencies have been so desperate to win business that they have been offering guaranteed deals to potential clients which turn out to be impossibly cheap... more
WPP today says underlying billings to clients were down 8.1% last year in what chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell describes as a “brutal” 12 months... more
Sir Martin Sorrell, Britain’s most powerful advertising boss, says some of his leading clients want the European Commission to investigate Google... more
It's the LUV economy, stupid. Sir Martin Sorrell, the Sage of Soho and one of the most important marketing men in the world, is calling a three-speed global economic recovery
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The crisis in adland has seen an unprecedented 10% slump in like-for-like revenues and a near halving in profits at global advertising and marketing giant WPP ... more
The UK advertising and marketing sector is faring better than its US and Continental counterparts Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, said
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If there is one lesson among the many to be gleaned from the past few weeks, it is surely that big business cannot behave as though there is one law for itself and another for the little folk. ... more
The Beijing Olympic Games will be looked back on as the moment "when the baton of economic growth was handed back from the West to the East", Sir Martin Sorrell declared from China's capital... more
A shrewd old stockbroker of my acquaintance recommended to his clients a month ago that they should buy housebuilders' shares, but with three caveats... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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