Wpp Advertises a Healthy Set of Accounts Despite Uk ; Advertising

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WPP, the world's second largest advertising company behind Omnicom, yesterday posted a seven per cent rise in half-year profits after overcoming a "relatively weak" performance in the UK.

The group benefited from good economic conditions in most parts of the world, but said the UK remained its slowest growing region with first-half revenues up 3.7 per cent, compared with the rate of eight per cent in the United States.

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Wpp Advertises a Healthy Set of Accounts Despite Uk ; Advertising

Announcing half-year profits of pounds 338 million, WPP said 2008 promised to be a good year, as long as the US economy remained healthy.

It cited the forthcoming Presidenti...

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