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35-411: The series was also a joint collaboration between Asatsu-DK and Toei and was shown on TV Asahi from January 28, 2001, to January 27, 2002. The series served as an indirect sequel to Kamen Rider Kuuga , which this show is set in the same universe as the previous show, and the first Kamen Rider series to not have an ending sequence. The series aired along with Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger . The series

70-406: A blog as the fictional character Barry Scott, advertising mascot for Reckitt's cleaning fluid Cillit Bang , as a viral marketing platform. In October of that year blogger Tom Coates wrote an emotional post to his own blog about his long-estranged father. Among the expressions of condolences and sympathy in the post's comment section was one from a user identifying themselves as Barry Scott, with

105-455: A link back to Cohn & Wolfe's in-character blog as Barry Scott. Offended by the apparent use of his blog comments on such a personal post as a spam advertising venue, Coates traced the comment's originating IP address through addresses owned by Young & Rubicam and back to Reckitt. Reckitt initially denied responsibility for the message, but wrote Coates an apology acknowledging the message's inappropriateness, and Cohn & Wolfe issued

140-726: A listed company through which to build a worldwide marketing services company, bought a controlling stake. In 1986, WPP became the parent company of Picquotware, a manufacturer of teapots and jugs, based in Northampton . In November 1987 a fire destroyed the Northampton factory, so production was restarted at Burntwood in Staffordshire. On 25 November 2004 WPP closed the Burntwood factory, and stopped manufacturing Picquotware; all assets were sold on 14 December 2004. In

175-618: A majority stake in Kantar . By selling a majority stake of Kantar to Bain Capital , WPP is believed to have generated $ 3.1 billion to help pay down debt. Read also sold the original Wire and Plastic Products company that Sorrell had purchased to create his business empire. The sale of 60% of the shares in Kantar was completed in December 2019. $ 1.9bn was used to reduce WPP's debt, and $ 1.2bn

210-471: A pre-Agito known as Kamen Rider Gills and seeks the truth behind his father's suicide. These mysteries and many others collide as the true nature of Agito would ultimately determine the fate of humanity. The Kamen Rider Agito trademark was registered by Toei on October 16, 2000. A video game based on the series, developed by KAZe and published by Bandai , was released in Japan on November 29, 2001, for

245-740: A primary listing on the London Stock Exchange , and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . On 14 April 2018, Martin Sorrell retired 33 years after founding the company, following allegations of bullying and sexual indescretions, and Roberto Quarta was appointed chairman . Mark Read was appointed CEO in September 2018. The company was founded as Wire and Plastic Products plc to manufacture wire shopping baskets in 1971. In 1985 Martin Sorrell and Preston Rabl , searching for

280-451: A statement of remorse for their misuse of the "experimental" blog which they then ceased operating. The controversy and its fallout led to further discussions among the blogger community as well as the advertising industry on the ethical issues surrounding blogs being "operated" by fictional characters for the purposes of advertising without being clearly labeled as such, and the extent to which those blogs should be allowed to participate in

315-404: Is a WPP-owned production company. WPP's shopper marketing promotions company is PEP, LLC (formerly Promotion Execution Partners). WPP-owned brand consultancies include Superunion (a combination of Brand Union , Lambie-Nairn , and three other brand consulting businesses) and Landor . In 2005 advertising agency Cohn & Wolfe (later merged into WPP) was contracted by Reckitt to operate

350-578: Is airing on Toku after being added to the network in November 2020. Two years have passed since the Unidentified Lifeform case concluded, a series of mysterious and impossible murders are taking place across the city carried out by unknown beings. A man named Shouichi Tsugami has no memory of who he was, where he came from, or how he came upon his peculiar circumstances to transform into a powerful superhuman, Kamen Rider Agito, whenever in

385-415: Is also involved in producing and providing its services to numerous anime series, through itself as well as its subsidiaries, including recent installments of Sunrise 's Gundam series, such as the latest series Mobile Suit Gundam 00 , Turn A Gundam , Mobile Suit Gundam Seed and Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny , as well as several other anime titles. In October 2022 ADK President Shinichi Ueno

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420-508: Is considered the world's biggest advertising agency group. WPP focuses on communications, experience, commerce, and technology. Headquartered in London, England, WPP has approximately 130,000 employees throughout its portfolio of businesses across more than 100 countries, as of 2018. WPP's notable advertising agency company holdings include Grey , Ogilvy , VMLY&R , and Wunderman Thompson . The XM Gravity Indonesia subsidiary company

455-783: Is part of a series of spin-off novel adaptions of the Heisei Era Kamen Riders. The novel was released on January 31, 2013. Asatsu-DK ADK Holdings Inc. d/b/a ADK , formerly known as Asatsu-DK , is a Japanese advertising agency . Headquartered in the Toranomon Hills building complex in Minato, Tokyo since June 2014 (previously in Tsukiji , Chūō, Tokyo ), the firm is Japan's third largest advertising agency after Dentsu and Hakuhodo . The agency has 80 offices in over 20 countries. One, Asatsu-DK Europe,

490-452: Is the world's largest advertising company, as of 2023. WPP plc owns many companies, which include advertising, public relations, media, and market research networks such as AKQA , BCW , CMI Media Group, Essence Global , Finsbury , Grey , Hill & Knowlton , Mindshare , Ogilvy , Wavemaker , and VML . It is one of the "Big Four" agency companies, alongside Publicis , The Interpublic Group of Companies , and Omnicom Group . WPP has

525-612: The Ministry of Information and Communications for advertising products on YouTube and Facebook in a manner which breached Vietnam's strict laws on cross-border advertising. The legislation is designed to combat offensive material which is intended to damage the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Government of Vietnam . WPP had committed various advertising violations, including inserting advertisements into intervals in

560-642: The PlayStation . It is a fighting game . Agito featured two S.I.C. Hero Saga side stories published in Monthly Hobby Japan magazine. The first was titled Masked Rider ΑGITΩ: Heaven's Door ( MASKED RIDER ΑGITΩ -HEAVEN'S DOOR- ) and featured a crossover with Kamen Rider 555 . It introduces the new characters Mirage Agito ( ミラージュアギト , Mirāju Agito ) and the Dog Orphnoch ( ドッグオルフェノク , Doggu Orufenoku ) . The story

595-404: The 1980s, WPP began its strategy of growth via acquisitions. In later years, WPP regularly acquired dozens of companies annually. In January 1987, the company acquired Scott Stern Associates, at the time Scotland's largest design and advertising company. In the same year (1987), the company acquired J. Walter Thompson (including JWT , Hill & Knowlton , and MRB Group) for $ 566m. The company

630-664: The G-Series suits Generation 1, Kamen Rider G4-X ( 仮面ライダーG4-X , Kamen Raidā Jī Fō Ekkusu ) , Generation 2, and the Road Chaser ( ロードチェイサー , Rōdo Cheisā ) vehicle. It also features the Hydrozoa Lord ( ハイドロゾアロード , Haidorozoa Rōdo ) Hydrozoa Tegula ( ヒドロゾア・テグラ , Hidorozoa Tegura ) . The story was published from October 2007 to January 2008. Kamen Rider Agito ( 仮面ライダーアギト , Kamen Raidā Agito ) , written by Naohiro Okamura and supervised by Toshiki Inoue,

665-607: The US. Many of WPP's constituent agencies use Microsoft Windows , and the organisation was among those hit by the 2017 cyberattacks on Ukraine , with some staff's computer access limited to webmail only as much as ten days later. WPP merged Burson-Marsteller with Cohn & Wolfe to become BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe) in February 2018. In April 2018, Martin Sorrell retired after 33 years, following allegations of personal misconduct and misuse of company assets. Sorrell has denied

700-676: The United States–based Young & Rubicam Group for $ 5.7 billion, in what was at the time the largest ever takeover in the advertising sector. The takeover made WPP the largest advertising company in the world measured by billings and revenue, overtaking Omnicom Group and Interpublic . In the 2000s, WPP Digital was created to develop the group's digital capabilities. In October 2008, WPP acquired market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres for £1.6 billion. During 2009 WPP reduced its workforce by around 14,000 employees, or 12.3% of its then total staff numbers, in response to

735-409: The ability to directly advertise on tech platforms, and competition with consultancies. While WPP had previously outperformed other companies in the industry, its growth slowed starting in 2017 and its market value dropped in 2018. Critics said WPP needed to become "nimbler" and "leaner". At the time, many WPP agencies operated mostly independently and competed for accounts. In late 2018, Read said

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770-410: The allegations. Chairman Roberto Quarta was temporarily named executive chairman. In September 2018, Mark Read, who was the global CEO of Wunderman, was named CEO. In the late 2010s, the advertising industry faced significant challenges. Changes in the industry landscape included financial pressure on global clients, in particular fast-moving consumer goods clients, companies taking work in-house,

805-522: The company had grown "unwieldy with too much duplication". He instituted a plan to reposition WPP as a "creative transformation company" and make its offer simpler. Read emphasized the importance of technology and also merged several WPP agencies: J. Walter Thompson merged with Wunderman to create Wunderman Thompson and Y&R merged with VML to create VMLY&R. Within Read's first year as CEO, he trimmed WPP by selling more than 30 subsidiaries, including

840-707: The company paid £27m in UK corporation tax, compared to what the newspaper "might expect" based on reports of the firm making 15% of its profit in the UK, of around £126m. In 2012, the Indian broadcasting NDTV filed a lawsuit against Television Audience Measurement (TAM), a joint venture of the former competitors Nielsen and Kantar Media Research which for years has provided the only TV audience measurement system in India. The lawsuit alleged that viewership data were manipulated in favor of broadcasters willing to provide bribes. WPP Plc

875-502: The greater blogosphere . With a number of shareholder revolts over executive pay having already happened at other public companies' AGMs earlier in the year, the media coverage of Martin Sorrell 's intended £12.93m compensation package drew increasing public attention in 2012. The result was a 59.52% shareholder vote to reject the resolution. It has been reported that WPP goes to great lengths to lower its own corporate tax bill. The Guardian reported that between 2003 and 2009

910-466: The onset of the 2008–2012 global recession . In June 2012, WPP agreed to acquire the digital advertising agency AKQA for US$ 540 million. In November 2015, WPP agreed to acquire a majority stake in Essence , a global digital agency. In November 2016, WPP announced it will be acquiring PEP, LLC, a project management and procurement company that oversees shopper marketing promotions for clients, in

945-569: The presence of the beings referred to by the police as the "Unknown". Known as the Lords, these powerful monsters perceived themselves as humanity's defenders and kill certain people in a series of murders that force the police department to make Makoto Hikawa the user of the Kamen Rider G3 powersuit which was modeled after Kamen Rider Kuuga. Shouichi and Makoto, both initially hesitant of the other at first, are joined by Ryō Ashihara, who becomes

980-639: Was arrested as part of a Prosecutors investigation into bribery . Prosecutors alleged that ADK sent ¥47 million to a former executive of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee through two different routes in exchange for preferential treatment of sponsorship contracts for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games . WPP Group WPP plc is a British multinational communications , advertising , public relations , technology, and commerce holding company headquartered in London , England. It

1015-608: Was established in 1993 in Amsterdam , Netherlands . Bain Capital has owned the company since 2018. Asatsu Inc. was established in 1956 by Masao Inagaki. In August 1998, it entered a business tie-up with the WPP Group . It soon merged with fellow advertising agency Dai-ichi Kikaku Co., Ltd. (established in 1951) to form Asatsu-DK (the DK stands for Dai-ichi Kikaku) on January 1, 1999. Inagaki died on April 16, 2015. In October 2017, it

1050-406: Was founded in 2008. WPP's digital company holdings include AKQA . WPP's public relations and public affairs company holdings include Hill+Knowlton Strategies , BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe) , and Ogilvy. WPP's media investment management company holdings include GroupM, Mindshare , Wavemaker and Essence . WPP's research insight and consulting companies include Kantar . Hogarth Worldwide

1085-507: Was listed among the defendants as the holding group of Kantar and IMRB. The lawsuit was dismissed in its entirety on 4 March 2013. WPP handles the accounts of many major oil companies. Asked by Reuters to disclose their client list, WPP refused to do so. WPP has defended its work for fossil fuel companies. Lawsuits have alleged that four of WPP's advertisement campaigns for fossil fuel companies have been misleading or entailed greenwashing . WPP has been fined on three occasions by

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1120-627: Was listed on the NASDAQ in 1988 (and later switched its secondary listing to the NYSE). In 1989, it acquired Ogilvy Group for $ 864m. WPP's acquisitions continued into the 1990s, when WPP bought firms in the healthcare advertising, digital-marketing, online shopping, digital media, data management, retail and corporate consultancy, and sports-marketing industries. This included the 1999 acquisition of Lambie-Nairn. In 1998, WPP formed an alliance with Asatsu-DK Inc. of Japan. In May 2000, WPP agreed to acquire

1155-513: Was published from October 2003 to March 2004. Later, in the S.I.C. Hero Saga Vol. 2 book, the elements of 555 were removed from the story and the Dog Orphnoch was changed to the Dog Load ( ドッグロード , Doggu Rōdo ) . The second S.I.C. Hero Saga story titled Masked Rider ΑGITΩ: Project G1 ( MASKED RIDER ΑGITΩ -PROJECT G1- ) expands on the story told in Project G4 in showing

1190-645: Was reported that U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital was looking to buy Asatsu-DK for ¥152 billion ($ 1.35 billion). On January 1, 2019, it was reported that Asatsu-DK fully acquired d-rights . It had previously shared that company with Mitsubishi Corporation. It owns a variety of interests, including production companies NAS and d-rights; animation studio Eiken ; animation studio Gonzo ; Nihon Bungeisha Publishing; film and print processor Taiyo Seihan; production studio Sun Artist Studio, Supervision Inc.; television commercial production house Prime Pictures; and creative services company Tokyo Ad Party. Asatsu-DK

1225-510: Was returned to shareholders. In July 2022, WPP acquired Corebiz, a Latin American ecommerce agency, for an undisclosed amount. In July 2024, WPP announced the appointment of former BT Group chief Philip Jansen as its chairman succeeding Roberto Quarta. Jansen is set to take over from Quarta as chairman on 1 January 2025. WPP is a large holding company involved in communications, advertising, public relations, and other businesses. It

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