LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - WPP, set to be overtakenas the world's biggest ad group by the merger of Publicis and Omnicom, said like-for-like revenue rose 5percent in July, the strongest rate this year, and said it saw a"slight increase" in its full-year forecast.
The company said the second half of the year and thirdquarter would be stronger than the first half of 2013, and itslightly raised it previous forecast of over 3 percent growthfor the year.
The group on Thursday posted a 7.1 percent rise infirst-half reported revenue to 5.3 billion pounds ($8.23billion), and a 12 percent rise in headline pretax profit to 524million pounds, broadly in line with market forecasts.