WPP
Source Passport
US-A-00005-9
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- Legal name
- WPP plc
- Country
- United States
- Type
- Advertising, PR or marketing agency
- Founded
- Not disclosed
- Chief executive
- Cindy Rose OBE (Chief Executive Officer)
- Claim
- Not claimed by the organisation
- Last verified
- 14 August 2026
1 of 5 layers verified
Transparency
Partial
4 of 7 key disclosures on record, 1 of them checked by our researchers.
- Legal name and registration number on record, not yet checked
- Owners with influence on record, not yet checked
- Beneficial owners (the people behind the companies) not disclosed
- State or public-body ownership stated on record, not yet checked
- Revenue mix or named funders not disclosed
- Public contact address not disclosed
- Official websites and accounts verified
- People behind the owning companies not disclosed
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Who is it?
Origin
Partly verified
- Brand names Pending check
- WPP
- WPP Media
- Company registration number Pending check
- Jersey Companies Registry 111714
- Registered address Pending check
- 22 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX
- Public contact email
- Not disclosed
2 sources
- Bloomberg LEI record (data from the GLEIF LEI system; registration authority RA000414 Jersey Financial Services Commission Companies Registry), 'WPP PLC', LEI 549300LSGBXPYHXGDT93, last updated 2026-08-11, read 2026-10-20 (registration number 111714; legal address 22 Grenville Street, St. Helier, JE4 8PX, Jersey; HQ Sea Containers House, 18 Upper Ground, London SE1 9GL; public limited company; active; no direct or ultimate parent: non-consolidating)
- WPP plc, Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025 (SEC EDGAR), read 2026-10-20 (incorporated in Jersey; registered office 22 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX; principal executive office Sea Containers, 18 Upper Ground, London SE1 9GL; major shareholders notified as at 12 March 2026: BlackRock Inc. 9.84%, FIL Limited 8.92%, Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 5.63%, RWC Asset Management LLP 5.25%, Schroders Plc 5.07%, Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management, LLC 5.04%, Silchester International Investors LLP 5.03%; CEO Cindy Rose OBE; Chair Philip Jansen; WPP Media replaced GroupM as the name of WPP's global media company in May 2025)
Who stands behind it?
Control
Not yet verified
- Owners with influence Pending check
Owner Share % Owner type BlackRock Inc. 9.84% Investment fund FIL Limited 8.92% Investment fund Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 5.63% Investment fund RWC Asset Management LLP 5.25% Investment fund Schroders Plc 5.07% Investment fund Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management, LLC 5.04% Investment fund Silchester International Investors LLP 5.03% Investment fund - Beneficial owners
- Not disclosed
- State or public-body ownership Pending check
- None
- Parent group Pending check
- None: WPP plc is the group parent (no parent per GLEIF)
2 sources
- WPP plc, Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025 (SEC EDGAR), read 2026-10-20 (incorporated in Jersey; registered office 22 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX; principal executive office Sea Containers, 18 Upper Ground, London SE1 9GL; major shareholders notified as at 12 March 2026: BlackRock Inc. 9.84%, FIL Limited 8.92%, Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 5.63%, RWC Asset Management LLP 5.25%, Schroders Plc 5.07%, Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management, LLC 5.04%, Silchester International Investors LLP 5.03%; CEO Cindy Rose OBE; Chair Philip Jansen; WPP Media replaced GroupM as the name of WPP's global media company in May 2025)
- Bloomberg LEI record (data from the GLEIF LEI system; registration authority RA000414 Jersey Financial Services Commission Companies Registry), 'WPP PLC', LEI 549300LSGBXPYHXGDT93, last updated 2026-08-11, read 2026-10-20 (registration number 111714; legal address 22 Grenville Street, St. Helier, JE4 8PX, Jersey; HQ Sea Containers House, 18 Upper Ground, London SE1 9GL; public limited company; active; no direct or ultimate parent: non-consolidating)
Who pays?
Money
Nothing disclosed
- Revenue mix
- Not disclosed
- Named investors and funders
- Not disclosed
Where does it appear?
Channels
Verified
- Official websites Verified
- Official social accounts
- Not disclosed
Who is connected?
Networks
Not yet verified
- Related companies in the same group Pending check
- WPP Group USA, Inc. (Delaware; 100%)
- GroupM Holdings LLC (Delaware; 100%)
- Group M Worldwide, LLC (Delaware; 100%)
- AKQA, Inc. (California; 100%)
- Choreograph LLC (Delaware; 100%)
- Landor Associates International Ltd. (California; 100%)
- Cartwright LLC (Delaware; 51%)
- Documented public-office or party roles
- Not disclosed
Change history
| Version | Date | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 20 October 2026 | Updated from research database (Origin, Control, Networks) |
| 1 | 19 October 2026 | First published |
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