Martin Sorrell
Martin Sorrell · Economics & Business
Built WPP from a shell company into the world's largest advertising and public relations group
14 February 1945, London, England
United Kingdom
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Martin Sorrell was born in London in 1945 to a Jewish family whose forebears came from Ukraine, Poland and Romania. In 1985 he bought a stake in Wire and Plastic Products, a maker of shopping baskets, and used it as the shell from which he assembled WPP — buying J. Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam to create the largest advertising and communications group in the world. He left in 2018 and immediately built S4 Capital.
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Built WPP from a shell company into the world's largest advertising and public relations group
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