In 1985 Martin Sorrell took a controlling stake in Wire & Plastic Products, a small UK manufacturer of shopping baskets. Today WPP is the world leader in advertising and marketing services, and proud parent to many of the industry's biggest and most admired agencies. The group employs 190,000 people in 112 countries, and its clients include 350 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30, 63 of the NASDAQ 100 and 31 of the Fortune e-50.
In May 2018 after leaving WPP he created S4 Capital