WPP Group Buys a Top Digital Agency
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The WPP Group, the giant advertising company, bought Blast Radius, a leading interactive agency, as part of a digital shopping spree.
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Advertising giant WPP is to buy US firm Grey Global, in a deal which could be worth as much as Â£750m ($1.3bn). The UK-based group won the auction for Grey Global, the seventh-largest advertiser in the US, against
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The company struck a deal to acquire BlueLithium, the fifth-largest online advertising network, for $300 million.
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Britain's WPP Group Plc has offered to  pay more than $1.25 billion for advertising firm Gray Global  Group, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing an  unidentified person familiar with the matter.
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Britain&#39;s WPP Group Plc has offered to pay more than $1.25 billion for advertising firm Gray Global Group, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing an unidentified person familiar with the matter.
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British advertising company WPP  on Sunday said it has won an auction for U.S. rival Gray Global , with what sources familiar with the matter said was a cash-and-stock deal worth about 750 million pounds (&#36;1.34 billion).
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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  Grey Global GREY.O, with what sources familiar with the  matter said was a cash-and-stock deal worth about $1.34  billion.
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WPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said Monday it was paying US$1.309 billion (euro1.068 billion) - half in cash and half in WPP equity - for the entire share capital of US-based Grey Global.
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WPP beat smaller French rival Havas and US private equity firm Hellman and Friedman, acquiring the last large independent advertising group after a 1990s consolidation in the industry.
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The Washington Post Company yesterday announced that it had acquired Slate, a pioneering online magazine, from Microsoft in a deal that offers further evidence of traditional
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WITH its agreement to buy the Grey Global Group, the WPP Group has been placed by its chief executive, Sir Martin Sorrell, in position to rival the Omnicom Group as the world&#39;s largest agency company.
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WPP Group Inc., the world&#39;s second- largest marketing and advertising company, said it won the bidding for Grey Global Group Inc.
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WPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said Sunday that it had won the bidding to acquire Grey Global, based in the United States.
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The British advertising agency WPP Group said today that it had won the bidding for Grey Global Group, the world's last large independent advertising firm.
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HAVAS, the French advertising agency company, entered the bidding for Grey Global Group of New York on Wednesday, joining the WPP Group of Britain and the American private equity firm Hellman &amp; Friedman.
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By McKenna, Ted  LONDON: WPP Group has acquired a reported 25% stake in Internet marketing firm Visible Technologies in order to boost the online media capabilities of its various PR agencies.
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The Washington Post Company announced today that it is purchasing Slate, an online newsmagazine owned by Microsoft.