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Adam Gale
Jul 07, 2020

Martin Sorrell: 'There's something about the unfairness of it that drives me'

S4 chief on bouncing back, what he would do with WPP and why Xi Jinping has the right philosophy.

Sorrell: 'The holding company model is past its sell-by date; it’s finished'

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