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WPP Buys Netherlands-Based Design Agency Du Bois Ording

REPEAT-Disgruntled investors flex vote muscle on UK executive pay

(Repeats story from Friday) * HSBC forced to rethink future executive payouts * Follows revolts at BP, others on 2015 payouts * Bulk of pay policies up for fresh vote by 2017 By Sinead Cruise and Simon Jessop LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Change the way you pay or ris

CORRECTED-Disgruntled investors flex vote muscle on UK executive pay

(Corrects title of Stephan Costa in paragraph 17) * HSBC forced to rethink future executive payouts * Follows revolts at BP, others on 2015 payouts * Bulk of pay policies up for fresh vote by 2017 By Sinead Cruise and Simon Jessop LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Change

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WPP unit takes majority stake in Turkish PR firm

(ShareCast News) - WPP said its Burson-Marstellar unit had agreed to take over Turkish communications firm Effect PR for an undisclosed sum. Istanbul-based Effect employs around 80 people and has been Burson-Marsteller's exclusive affiliate partner in Turkey since 2012, WPP said in a statement. Aft

WPP Buys Majority Stake In Turkish Communications Firm Effect PR

WPP buys remaining stake in Athens-based market research agency

(ShareCast News) - WPP's operating network, TNS, has bought the remaining stake in Greece's Taylor Nelson Sofres ICAP Market Research it did not already own. Athens-based TNS ICAP provides qualitative and quantitative research expertise along with TNS tools and methodologies. TNS is part of Kantar,

WPP Buys Up Remaining Stake In Greece's Taylor Nelson Sofres ICAP

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Negative rates, Sorrell, Tata Steel

(ShareCast News) - Investors looking for income may have to give up on UK equity funds. A spate of FTSE dividend cuts has prompted an industry-wide debate about how the term "income fund" should be defined. Some of the most popular products selected by retail investors, income funds have attracted b

Monday broker round-up

(ShareCast News) - Thomas Cook: Berenberg upgrades to hold with a target price of 105p and Goldman Sachs reiterates sell with a 94p target. Rightmove: Investec upgrades to buy with a target price of 4400p. Spirax: RBC downgrades to sextor perform with a target price of 3700p. Polymetal: Deutsche B

BROKER RATINGS SUMMARY: Jefferies Cuts Arm Holdings To Hold From Buy

Monday newspaper round-up: Brexit, tax avoidance, Boots, StanChart

(ShareCast News) - Leaving the EU would cost households £4,300 a year making them "permanently poorer", chancellor George Osborne will say on Monday when the government publishes its long-term assessment of the economic costs of Brexit. Saying that British people should be "builders, not wreckers",

REFILE-UPDATE 3-BP investors say "no" to CEO Dudley's $20 mln pay deal

(Adds Legal & General comment, links to graphic, Breakingview, refiled to remove repetitious wording in first paragraph)) * BP investors vote to oppose CEO pay deal * BP head of remuneration committee says will review policy * Company says dividend policy could be reviewed Read more

Ad agency fears media feeding frenzy if ex-CEO video is released

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, March 30 (Reuters) - J. Walter Thompson urged a federal judge not to make public a video purporting to show its recently replaced chief executive making sexist and racist slurs, saying it would fan a media feeding frenzy surrounding the case and his abrupt depa

WPP buys US healthcare media agency

(ShareCast News) - WPP has bought US healthcare media agency Communications Media (CMI) for an undisclosed sum. The London-listed media agency said CMI - whose clients include 10 of the top 20 pharmaceutical advertisers in the US - had unaudited revenues of $38m as of 31 December 2015. CMI provides