PRESS RELEASE: WPP Annual General Meeting Trading -2-

29th Jun 2010 12:00

You do not retain valued clients by trying to retain them; you retain them by doing outstanding work. You do not make more money by trying to make more money; you make more money by doing outstanding work. You do not win creative awards by trying to win creative awards; you win them by doing outstanding work. And so on and so on. And never has this primitive truth been better tested and proved than over the last couple of years. That this company is alive and well and winning can be attributed quite simply to outstanding work. Yes, of course, there have been necessary and painful cost adjustments; but cutting costs can only take you so far. The rewards for delivering outstanding work are limitless. In the case of this company, that work has been delivered by tens of thousands of individual talents -- working together, working alone, working as teams, working in collaboration across companies, and in all our divisions. There is no neat metric for the measurement of imagination profitably applied -- so I am afraid I cannot report that the overall creativity index for WPP, on a year-on-year basis, has increased by 18.7 per cent. But I can report that this company's current state of health is not simply the result of some mysterious top-down discipline called management: it's the result of the outstanding work that those tens of thousands of inventive individuals have delivered for their clients. So on behalf of all our share owners, as well as our management, I would like to take this opportunity to register our great appreciation and gratitude to every single one of them." This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially including adjustments arising from the annual audit by management and the company's independent auditors. For further information on factors which could impact the company and the statements contained herein, please refer to public filings by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The statements in this press release should be considered in light of these risks and uncertainties. CONTACT: WPP Sir Martin Sorrell, 44 (0) 20 7408 2204 Paul Richardson, 44 (0) 20 7408 2204 Feona McEwan, 44 (0) 20 7408 2204 Fran Butera, 1-212-632-2235 www.wpp.com SOURCE: WPP Copyright Business Wire 2010 Order free Annual Report for WPP Group PLC Visit http://djnweurope.ar.wilink.com/?ticker=JE00B3DMTY01 or call +44 (0)208 391 6028 (END) Dow Jones Newswires June 29, 2010 07:00 ET (11:00 GMT)