Big Advertisers Bid on Grey Global
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My Stocks 2003 selection, British advertising and marketing giant WPP Group (Nasdaq: WPPGY), seems to be in the driver&#39;s seat against perhaps two other competitors in pursuit of New York-based ad firm Grey Global (Nasdaq: GREY).
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The stakes are getting higher for one of the advertising industry&#39;s biggest holding companies. With talk of a sale or breakup of France&#39;s Havas, reports emerged yesterday
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Business & money: Guardian owner GMG and Apax seal deal with raised offer of media empire
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Software giant makes bid in an attempt to challenge growing might of Google
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British Telecom, TalkTalk and Virgin Media, three of the largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Britain, have joined together to create a new network that will offer targeted advertising to UK Internet users.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - British advertising company WPP  WPP.L on Sunday said it has won an auction for U.S. rival  Gray Global GREY.O, with what sources familiar with the  matter said was a cash-and-stock deal worth about 750 million  pounds ($1.34 billion).
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The British Broadcasting Corp (BBC) has invited three of the world's largest media companies to discuss possible bids for its commercial sales and publishing arm, the Financial Times said.
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LONDON With its agreement to buy Grey Global Group, Sir Martin Sorrell has placed his London-based WPP Group in position to rival Omnicom Group as the world&#39;s largest advertising company.
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SAN FRANCISCO-based private equity firm Hellman &amp; Friedman and Havas reportedly raised their bids today for ad agency Grey Global Group, putting pressure on WPP&#39;s bid for the company and raising all three offers to at least $1.
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Three of Britain's largest Internet  Service Providers have signed up to use a new advertising  platform that will give them a slice of the growing online  targeted ad market.
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Private equity firm The Carlyle Group  is mulling a bid for the generics business of Germany's Merck  KGaA , a unit worth at least 4 billion euros ($5.3  billion), a source close to the process said.
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LONDON, England -- UK-based advertising giant WPP Group says it has won the bidding to acquire US agency Grey Global. WPP, the world&#39;s second-largest advertising company, said Sunday it had reached agreement
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- The publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corp. approached Time Warner (TWX) , Germany&#39;s Bertelsmann and Walt Disney (DIS) as potential bidders for BBC Worldwide, its commercial sales and
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Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, yesterday declared he was &quot;very impressed&quot; with Grey Global, stoking speculation WPP will bid for the US advertising company.
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Private equity firm The Carlyle Group is mulling a bid for the generics business of Germany's Merck KGaA , a unit worth at least 4 billion euros ($5.3 billion), a source close to the process said.
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NEW YORK For the second time in six months, a large worldwide advertiser is shifting its account to agencies owned by WPP Group from agencies owned by Interpublic Group.
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With its agreement to buy the Grey Global Group, Sir Martin Sorrell has placed his WPP Group in position to rival the Omnicom Group as the worldÂs largest agency company.