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WPP GROUP PLC

WPPGY

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45.98 0.35 0.77%

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2007 Sales	2007 Sales Growth	2007 Net Income	2007 Employees
$12,355,100,000	6.7%	$1,028,800,000	90,000

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Name	Title	Officer Since
Sir Martin Sorrell	CEO	1/1/86
Lubna Olayan	Director	3/1/05
Jeffrey A. Rosen	Director	12/1/04
Paul Spencer	Director	4/1/04
Colin Day	Director	7/1/05
Orit Gadiesh	Director	4/1/04
Phillip Lader	Chairman of the Board/Director	1/1/01
Stanley (Bud) Morten	Director	1/1/91

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Lubna Olayan was appointed a director in March 2005. Ms Olayan is the deputy chairman and chief executive officer of the Olayan Financing Company, a subsidiary and the holding entity for the Olayan Group"s operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. Ms Olayan is a Board Member of Saudi Hollandi Bank, a publicly listed company in Saudi Arabia. She is on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, a... View Full Profile

Lubna Olayan

Jeffrey Rosen was appointed a director in December 2004. He is a deputy chairman and managing director of Lazard. He has over 30 years" experience in international investment banking and corporate finance. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is President of the Board of Trustees of the International Center of Photography in New York.... View Full Profile

Jeffrey A. Rosen

Paul Spencer was appointed a director in April 2004. He is a financier with 20 years" experience in the financial management of a number of blue chip companies, including British Leyland PLC, Rolls-Royce PLC, Hanson PLC and Royal & Sun Alliance PLC. He served as UK chief executive of Royal & Sun Alliance PLC between 1999 and 2002. He is the chairman of State Street Managed Pension Funds Ltd. He is also chairman of the Association of Corporate... View Full Profile

Paul Spencer

Colin Day was appointed a director in July 2005. He is group finance director of Reckitt Benckiser plc, having been appointed to its board in September 2000. Prior to joining Reckitt Benckiser he was group finance director of Aegis Group plc and previously held a number of senior finance positions with ABB Group plc and De La Rue Group plc. He was a non-executive director of Imperial Tobacco plc until February 2007 and of easyJet plc until... View Full Profile

Colin Day

Orit Gadiesh was appointed a director in April 2004. She is chairman of Bain & Company, Inc. and a world-renowned expert on management and corporate strategy. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and was a Baker Scholar. She is a member of the International Advisory Board at Haute Ecole Commerciale in France. She is a member of the Foundation Board for the World Economic Forum, and on the Board of Directors of The Peres Institute for... View Full Profile

Orit Gadiesh

Philip Lader was appointed chairman in 2001. The US Ambassador to the Court of St James"s from 1997 to 2001, he previously served in several senior executive roles in the US Government, including as a Member of the President"s Cabinet and as White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Before entering government service, he was executive vice president of the company managing the late Sir James Goldsmith"s US holdings and president of both a prominent... View Full Profile

Phillip Lader

Sir Martin Sorrell joined WPP in 1986 as a director, becoming Group chief executive in the same year. He is a non-executive director of Formula One.... View Full Profile

Sir Martin Sorrell

Bud Morten was appointed a director in 1991. He is a consultant and private investor. He is currently the Independent Consultant to Citigroup/Smith Barney with responsibility for its independent research requirements. Previously he was the chief operating officer of Punk, Ziegel & Co, a New York investment banking firm with a focus on the healthcare and technology industries. Before that he was the managing director of the equity division of... View Full Profile

Stanley (Bud) Morten

David Komansky was appointed a director in January 2003. He was chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., serving until his retirement on 28 April 2003. He served as chief executive officer from 1996 to 2002, having begun his career at Merrill Lynch in 1968. Among many professional affiliations, he serves as a director of Black Rock, Inc. and as a member of the International Advisory Board of the British American Business Council.... View Full Profile

David H Komansky

Christopher Mackenzie was appointed a director in 2000. He is chairman and chief executive of the Equilibrium Group, a London-based investor group and chairman of Borets, the Russian Oil services group. He is also a board member of the Abdul Latif Jameel Group and KazMunaiGas Exploration & Production JSC. He served as the chief executive of Brunswick Capital in Russia, the president and chief executive officer of Trizec Properties and as the... View Full Profile

Christopher Mackenzie

Esther Dyson was appointed a director in 1999. In 2004 she sold her company, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks, the US-based interactive media company. She left CNET at the end of 2006 and now operates as an independent investor and entrepreneur, again under the name of EDventure. She has been highly influential for the past 25 years on the basis of her insights into online/information technology markets and social impact worldwide, including... View Full Profile

Esther Dyson

Tim Shriver was appointed a director in August 2007. He is Chairman of Special Olympics serving over 2 million Special Olympic athletes and their families in 170 countries. In recent years, he has produced films for Disney, Dream Works and Fox Searchlight and more recently, has begun writing a column for The Washington Post/Newsweek.com. He co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and currently chairs the... View Full Profile

Timothy (Tim) Shriver

Paul Richardson became Group finance director of WPP in 1996 after four years with the Company as director of treasury. He is responsible for the Group"s worldwide functions in finance, information technology, procurement, property, treasury, taxation, internal audit and corporate responsibility. He is also the Country Manager for Italy. Previously he spent six years with the central financial team of Hanson PLC. He is a chartered accountant and... View Full Profile

Paul Richardson

Mark Read was appointed a director in March 2005. He has been WPP"s director of strategy since 2002 and is also CEO of WPP Digital. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of HighCo and a director of CHI & Partners. He worked at WPP between 1989 and 1995 in both parent company and operating company roles. Prior to rejoining WPP in 2002, he was a principal at the consultancy firm of Booz-Allen & Hamilton and founded and developed the company... View Full Profile

Mark Read

Koichiro Naganuma was appointed a director in February 2004. He is president and group chief executive officer of Asatsu-DK, also known as ADK. Joining the agency in 1981, he began his career with the account service of global clients in the agency. His mandate thereafter expanded to the total operation of the group. He replaced ADK Chairman Masao Inagaki on the Board who retired upon the appointment of Mr Naganuma. ADK is Japan"s third largest... View Full Profile

Koichiro Naganuma

John Quelch was appointed a director in 1988. He is Senior Associate Dean and Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Between 1998 and 2001 he was Dean of the London Business School. He also serves as chairman of the Massachusetts Port Authority. Professor Quelch"s writings focus on global business practice in emerging as well as developed markets, international marketing and the role of the multinational... View Full Profile

John Quelch

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Ownership Breakdown : WPPGY

Large Block Holder Type	Number
Institutions	148.00
Mutual Fund	85.00
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Short Interest Volume: WPPGY

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Current Short Interest Shares	1.09 B
Current Short Interest Ratio	3.20
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Average Daily Volume	153,000.00
Outstanding Shares	234.44 M

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SEC Filings: WPPGY

Accepted Date	Description
07/02/2008	SEC Filing: Foreign Issuer Report
07/01/2008	SEC Filing: Foreign Issuer Report
06/30/2008	SEC Filing: Foreign Issuer Report

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