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<ACCEPTANCE-DATETIME>20130103123934
ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-13-002008
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20130102
FILED AS OF DATE:		20130103
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20130103

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			WPP plc
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000806968
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-ADVERTISING AGENCIES [7311]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-16350
		FILM NUMBER:		13505260

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6 ELY PLACE
		CITY:			DUBLIN
		STATE:			L2
		ZIP:			2
		BUSINESS PHONE:		011442074082204

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6 ELY PLACE
		CITY:			DUBLIN
		STATE:			L2
		ZIP:			2

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	WPP GROUP PLC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19960514
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 <P STYLE="line-height:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="line-height:3px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>FORM 6-K </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:1pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Report of
Foreign Private Issuer </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>For the Month of January 2013 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Commission File Number: 0-16350
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><center> <P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:1pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><B>WPP PLC </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(Translation of registrant&#146;s name into English) </B></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>27 Farm Street, London W1J 5RJ, England </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(Address of principal executive offices) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:1pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Indicate by check mark whether
the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Form 20-F&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT
STYLE="FONT-FAMILY:WINGDINGS">&#120;</FONT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Form 40-F&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT STYLE="FONT-FAMILY:WINGDINGS">&#168;</FONT> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT STYLE="FONT-FAMILY:WINGDINGS">&#168;</FONT> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Note:&nbsp;Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted solely to provide an attached annual report to
security holders. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule
101(b)(7):&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT STYLE="FONT-FAMILY:WINGDINGS">&#168;</FONT> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Note:&nbsp;Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7) only permits the submission
in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted to furnish a report or other document that the registrant foreign private issuer must furnish and make public under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally
organized (the registrant&#146;s &#147;home country&#148;), or under the rules of the home country exchange on which the registrant&#146;s securities are traded, as long as the report or other document is not a press release, is not required to be
and has not been distributed to the registrant&#146;s security holders, and, if discussing a material event, has already been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other Commission filing on EDGAR. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Forward-Looking Statements </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with the provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the &#147;Reform Act&#148;),
the Company may include forward-looking statements (as defined in the Reform Act) in oral or written public statements issued by or on behalf of the Company. These forward-looking statements may include, among other things, plans, objectives,
projections and anticipated future economic performance based on assumptions and the like that are subject to risks and uncertainties. As such, actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements.
Important factors that may cause actual results to differ include but are not limited to: the unanticipated loss of a material client or key personnel, delays or reductions in client advertising budgets, shifts in industry rates of compensation,
regulatory compliance costs or litigation, natural disasters or acts of terrorism, the Company&#146;s exposure to changes in the values of major currencies other than the UK pound sterling (because a substantial portion of its revenues are derived
and costs incurred outside of the United Kingdom) and the overall level of economic activity in the Company&#146;s major markets (which varies depending on, among other things, regional, national and international political and economic conditions
and government regulations in the world&#146;s advertising markets). In light of these and other uncertainties, the forward-looking statements included in the oral or written public statements should not be regarded as a representation by the
Company that the Company&#146;s plans and objectives will be achieved. </FONT></P>

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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Announcement dated 2&nbsp;January 2013, made by WPP plc.</FONT></TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>SIGNATURES </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on behalf of the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized. </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Date: 2 January 2013.</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/ Paul W.G. Richardson</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Exhibit 1 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>2&nbsp;January 2013 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>WPP plc </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Return to the United Kingdom </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Scheme of Arrangement becomes effective </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The order made by the Jersey
Court on 18&nbsp;December 2012 sanctioning the Scheme of Arrangement between WPP plc (now renamed WPP 2012 Limited, &#147;<B>WPP</B>&#148;) and its share owners in relation to the introduction of a new Jersey incorporated and United Kingdom tax
resident parent company (&#147;<B>New WPP</B>&#148;), as proposed in WPP&#146;s circular dated 13&nbsp;November 2012 (the &#147;<B>Scheme Circular</B>&#148;), has today been delivered to the Jersey Registrar of Companies and registered by him.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Scheme of Arrangement has, accordingly, become effective and New WPP, which has adopted the name WPP plc, has become the
new parent company of the WPP Group. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As a result of the Scheme, 1,265,424,113 new ordinary shares of ten pence each in the
capital of New WPP (&#147;<B>New WPP Shares</B>&#148;) have been issued to former WPP Share Owners on a one-for-one basis. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The New WPP Shares have been admitted to the premium segment of the Official List maintained by the UKLA and dealings in New WPP Shares
on the London Stock Exchange&#146;s main market for listed securities commenced at 8.00 a.m. (London time) today, 2&nbsp;January 2013. Dealings in New WPP ADSs are also expected to commence on NASDAQ at the opening of business (New York time) today.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The New WPP Shares to which former WPP Share Owners are entitled will: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to the extent the entitlement arises as a result of having held WPP Shares in uncertificated form, be credited to the appropriate CREST accounts of
such share owners with effect from today; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to the extent the entitlement arises as a result of having held WPP Shares in certificated form, be delivered in certificated form with the relevant
new share certificates expected to be despatched by post, at such share owner&#146;s risk, by no later than 15&nbsp;January 2013. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A further announcement will be made on or around 10&nbsp;January 2013 in relation to the New WPP Reduction of Capital. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Capitalised terms used but not defined in this announcement have the meanings given to them in the Scheme Circular. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Merrill Lynch International is acting as sponsor in relation to New WPP&#146;s application for listing and as corporate broker to WPP and New WPP. Merrill Lynch International is acting for WPP and New WPP
and no one else in connection with the Scheme and will not be responsible to anyone other than WPP and New WPP for providing the protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice in relation to the proposals or the contents of this
announcement. </FONT></P>

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solicitation of an invitation or offer to buy or exchange any security. None of the securities referred to in this announcement shall be sold, issued, subscribed for, purchased, exchanged or transferred in any jurisdiction in contravention of
applicable law. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For further information: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Feona McEwan </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">+44 20 7408 2204 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">www.wppinvestor.com </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Exhibit 2 </B></FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>2&nbsp;January 2013</B></FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>WPP PLC (&#147;WPP&#148;) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>WPP acquires stake in Globant to further strengthen its digital capabilities in the fast growth markets of Latin America and in the United States, United Kingdom and beyond </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">LONDON&#151;WPP (NASDAQ:WPPGY), the world&#146;s leading communications services group, has agreed to acquire a 20% stake in Globant S.A.
(&#147;Globant&#148;). Globant is an emerging worldwide leader in providing both technical expertise and design and creative capabilities in the development of software products that can be applied to digital marketing campaigns on a global scale.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Headquartered in Buenos Aires, Globant is a rapidly growing business employing 2,700 engineers, marketing specialists and
designers in 21 offices across 14 cities in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, the United States and the United Kingdom. The company&#146;s approach is unique in that it provides clients with both the infrastructure and technical support that
drive digital marketing campaigns, combined with the creative and design skills usually found alone in digital agencies. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Globant&#146;s net revenues for the year ended 31&nbsp;December 2011 were US$90 million and net revenues for the six months to
30&nbsp;June 2012 were US$56.9 million with total assets of US$69 million as of 30&nbsp;June 2012. WPP will invest approximately $70 million in acquiring the Globant stake. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Increasingly, clients want better coordination between their IT departments and their marketing departments, between their Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and their Chief Marketing Officers
(CMOs),&#148; said WPP Chief Executive Sir Martin Sorrell. &#147;There are many consulting companies or digital agencies that are expert in one function or the other. Few, if any, do both and even fewer can integrate deep technical and creative
capabilities on a global scale as Globant does. Partnering with Globant will allow our companies to increasingly provide our clients with insights and skills that will make their digital marketing efforts even more effective and simpler to manage at
both the front and back ends.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Globant has deep experience in working in state of the art digital marketing spaces
including, but not limited to, mobile, gamification, social networks, cloud computing, big data and e-commerce. Globant&#146;s clients include American Express, JP Morgan Chase&nbsp;&amp; Co., LinkedIn, Electronic Arts, Google, Coca-Cola, National
Geographic, Zynga and Sabre Holdings, as well as a number of WPP companies, such as JWT, Young&nbsp;&amp; Rubicam, Grey, GroupM and Kantar. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Our core competencies in gamification, cloud computing, big data, social networks and mobile enable us to deliver innovation to our customers and add value to their efforts to reach end users
through software products. We are focused on staying ahead of the technology curve, which makes us the right partner for companies looking to build and engage consumers in a global way,&#148; said Globant&#146;s CEO and co-founder Martin Migoya.
&#147;We are extremely proud to welcome WPP into our family; their support will help us to achieve our goal of becoming one of the most innovative software development companies in the world.&#148; </FONT></P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This investment continues WPP&#146;s strategy of targeting fast-growing markets and sectors
and the application of technology to the communications services industry. In 2012 WPP completed 25 transactions with companies that are in either faster growing markets (eg BRICs, Next 11, CIVETS, MIST) or faster growing sectors such as digital,
data or application of technology, or both. WPP&#146;s digital revenues (including associates) are budgeted to total well over US$6 billion in 2013, representing over 33% of the Group&#146;s total revenues, which in 2011 totalled US $16 billion. WPP
has set a target of 35%-40% of revenues to be derived from digital over the next five years. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, this transaction
also continues WPP&#146;s strategy of investing in fast growing geographic markets, which also currently represent one-third of revenues, with a similar objective to reach 35-40% over the next five years and reflects its commitment to developing its
strategic networks throughout Latin America. WPP regards this decade as very much the decade of Latin America, particularly with the FIFA World Cup taking place in Brazil in 2014 and the Olympics in Rio in 2016. The Group collectively, including
associates, will have revenues of over US $1.6 billion and will employ over 18,000 people in the LATAM region alone. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Feona McEwan, WPP</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">+ 44 (0) 207 408 2204</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Kevin McCormack, WPP</FONT></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>About WPP </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">WPP is the world&#146;s largest communications services group with billings of $77.1 billion and revenues of $16.1 billion in 2011. Through its operating companies, the Group provides a comprehensive
range of advertising and marketing services including advertising&nbsp;&amp; media investment management; consumer insight; public relations and public affairs; branding and identity; healthcare communications; direct, digital, promotion and
relationship marketing and specialist communications. The company employs over 162,000 people (including associates) in 3,000 offices in 110 countries. For more information, visit <U>www.wpp.com</U>. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">WPP was named Holding Company of the Year at the 2012 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for the second year running,
since the award was initiated. </FONT></P>
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