WPP-Scangroup Limited

WPP-Scangroup Limited
Public company
Traded as KN: SCAN
Industry Adverising & Communication Services
Founded 1996
Headquarters Nairobi, Kenya
Key people
 David Hutchison Chairman
Bharat Thakrar CEO
Revenue Decrease: US$50.22+ million (KES5.022 billion) (2015)
Total assets Decrease: US$124.68+ million (KES12.468 billion) (2015)
Parent WPP plc
Website www.wpp-scangroup.com

WPP-Scangroup is a subsidiary of WPP and is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. It is the largest marketing and communication group operating a multi-agency model across multiple disciplines in Sub-Saharan Africa. The group comprises the ad agencies Ogilvy & Mather, SCANAD, JWT and BluePrint Marketing; media firms GroupM, MediaCom Africa, Mindshare and MEC; public relations agencies Ogilvy PR and H+K Strategies; market research agency Millward Brown; specialty communication firms Roundtrip and Geometry Global; and digital companies OgilvyOne, Squad Digital and SCANAD Digital. In all, over 1200 people are employed across the various organizations.

WPP-Scangroup is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. In terms of physical presence, the group has presence in 25 countries in Sub Saharan Africa. Majority-owned offices in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and minority owned operations in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Namibia, Senegal and Zimbabwe. The group also has affiliate partners in Botswana, DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Reunion and S. Leone.

History

Scangroup Limited was incorporated in Kenya as a private limited liability company on 26 January 1999 under the name Media Initiative East Africa Limited. In October 2005 the company changed its name to Scangroup Limited. Scangroup listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange on 29 August 2006 and is currently the only marketing services company listed on the exchange. In late 2013 Scangroup became a subsidiary of WPP and subsequently the company renamed itself to WPP-Scangroup Limited on 15 June 2015.

Ownership

Since 2006, the company stock is listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange, where it trades under the symbol:SCAN. Its largest shareholder is the WPP Group, controlling 50.10% of the issued share capital of Scangroup though its subsidiaries Cavendish Square Holding BV and Ogilvy South Africa.[1] As of May 2014, the ten largest investors in the company were:[2]

Scangroup Stock Ownership
Rank Name of OwnerNumber of SharesPercentage Ownership
1Cavendish Square Holding B.V176,903,56046.69
2Bharat Kumar Thakrar and Sadhna Bharat Thakrar51,811,36013.68
3Ogilvy and Mather South Africa (Proprietary) Limited12,907,8563.41
4Standard Chartered Nominees, Non-Resident A/C KE 927312,743,9003.36
5White, Andrew John Laird12,206,0003.22
6Standard Chartered Nominees Account KE 1798410,845,7932.86
7Standard Chartered Nominees, Non-Resident A/C 99449,901,4002.61
8CFC Stanbic Nominee Limited A/C NR10306255,677,5001.50
9Standard Chartered Nominees Account KE176052,544,1200.67
10Standard Chartered Nominees A/C 9098AC2,352,0800.62
Total297,893,56978.63

WPP-Scangroup Companies

The companies within Scangroup include, but are not limited to the following:[3]

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