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“WPP is stuck somewhere in the middle which is probably a bad place” Sir Martin Sorrell

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December 12, 2018
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“WPP is stuck somewhere in the middle which is probably a bad place” Sir Martin Sorrell

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Sir Martin Sorrell had blasted WPP’s management over its recent restructures and said it is destroying value by merging brands.

While Speaking on a panel in Mumbai earlier this week Sorrell said, “The senior people running WPP have not visited Asia or Latin America once this year with the exception of China,” Sorrell said. “It’s not the way to run a multinational business. If you’re going to make structural changes that result in, according to one of the headlines, losing 7,500 jobs then you have a responsibility to visit those places.”

Sorrell lamented that his successors are destroying value in discarding iconic brands like JWT and Y&R and said, “I don’t think creative people are a bunch of bozos you should get rid of. My view was to make it ‘Y&R – VML’ make it ‘JWT Wunderman’, that always been my view if you’re going to do that because I do believe in the strength of these brands,” he said. Whereas, the merged companies instead are called Wunderman Thompson and VMLY&R.

“They may not be digital and there may be a message that you’re putting digital first but these things still have value and I think the problem with managers is they don’t appreciate it.”

Sounding his views over the progress of other Global Advertising giants Sorrell said, “I think Publicis moves too fast. Publicis, by the way has the best strategy and the best articulation but the practical implementation of it means you destroy brands.

“I don’t believe that anybody – Saatchis, or Burnett or BBH – basically on a global level those brands are disappearing. If they haven’t disappeared already.

“It’s exactly the same as if you decide to do VML and Y&R or JWT and Wunderman. India is a good test case – as I remember it Wunderman was pretty small in India and JWT is pretty big and pretty famous. Wunderman is certainly less famous.

“If you have people running around India calling it Wunderman instead of Thompson, then you have a problem.

“I was in Argentina and Brazil when they announced VMLY&R and people came up to me – I was in Buenos Aires – and asked ‘Who is VML?’ and I said John Cook is really good and it’s based in Kansas City. This did not go down well in Buenos Aires.

“You have to keep it in context – Young & Rubicon was, and probably still is, the biggest agency in Brazil.

“Publicis in my mind is going too fast. Omnicom doesn’t have a strategy but it has excellent companies, really good companies, so they’re going to have to their trust.

“WPP is sort of stuck somewhere in the middle which is probably a bad place to be that’s where it is.

“Dentsu is best positioned. They are best positioned because if you look back to the three things I mentioned – they have the media thing, they have the data thing and they have the digital thing. Those are three areas.”

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