WPP
This WPP profile does not identify a single registered company. The record carries no registration number, no incorporation date, no legal form and no address, and the name “WPP” is a brand used by many separately registered legal persons. It is filed under the United States with the New York Department of State, Division of Corporations, named as its source. On 16 October 2026 we searched that register’s own open data for the name, and no New York corporation or LLC is registered under the name “WPP” alone.
What the New York register does hold is narrower. One filing uses “WPP” exactly: an assumed-name (trade-name) certificate filed on 24 May 2002 by a foreign business corporation with DOS ID 278031. The register’s electronic data does not give that corporation’s own name, and its ID sits in a number range issued around June 1969. Seventeen active entities have names beginning “WPP”. Among them are WPP Group USA, Inc. (DOS ID 4879284, a Delaware corporation incorporated on 15 September 2015 and authorised in New York on 14 January 2016), WPP Group U.S. Finance LLC and WPP Media Holdings LLC. Others are unrelated businesses, for example WPP Limo Service Inc. Nothing in the record ties it to any one of them by number, so this page does not adopt the status, dates or address of any of them.
The brand belongs to WPP plc, a public limited company incorporated in Jersey on 25 October 2012 as WPP 2012 plc. Its Jersey registration number is 111714 (LEI 549300LSGBXPYHXGDT93) and its principal executive office is at Sea Containers, 18 Upper Ground, London. WPP plc is a marketing-services group. It supplies media buying and data services, creative and advertising work, production, public relations and enterprise solutions to brand owners in more than 100 countries. Its ordinary shares are listed in London and its American Depositary Shares trade on the NYSE under the ticker WPP.
WPP plc’s audited consolidated figures for 2025, filed with the SEC on Form 20-F on 19 March 2026, were revenue of £13,550 million, revenue less pass-through costs of £10,176 million and operating profit of £382 million, with 98,655 employees at 31 December 2025. North America contributed £3,837 million of revenue less pass-through costs. For the six months to 30 June 2026 it reported revenue of £6,373 million, 4.4% lower than a year earlier. These are group figures for WPP plc. They are not the figures of any New York-registered entity.
The website stored on this record, wpp.com, is WPP plc’s group site. The same plc names www.wpp.com/investors in its own SEC filings.
Sources
- New York Department of State, “Corporations and Other Entities: All Filings” (dataset 63wc-4exh), queries corp_name=WPP, corpid_num=278031 and corp_name=WPP GROUP USA, INC. — https://data.ny.gov/resource/63wc-4exh.json — retrieved 2026-10-16 (control “WPP GROUP USA, INC.” returned 17 filings; a nonsense name returned none)
- New York Department of State, “Active Corporations: Beginning 1800” (dataset n9v6-gdp6), names beginning “WPP” — https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json — retrieved 2026-10-16 (control “BLACKSTONE” returned matches; nonsense returned none)
- WPP plc, Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025, filed 19 March 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000162828026019643/wpp-20251231.htm — retrieved 2026-10-16
- WPP plc, Form 6-K, 2026 Interim Results, filed 6 August 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000165495426007317/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- GLEIF LEI record 549300LSGBXPYHXGDT93 (WPP PLC, Jersey Financial Services Commission Companies Registry, 111714) — https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300LSGBXPYHXGDT93 — last updated 2026-08-11, retrieved 2026-10-16
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Shareholders
Shareholders of WPP
This record does not identify a single legal person, so it has no shareholder register of its own to report. “WPP” is a brand, and the record carries no registration number linking it to any one of the entities that use the name. The stored provider text says US shareholder data is filed at state level and that private companies usually do not disclose it. That does not apply here, because no entity has been identified for it to describe.
The entity that owns the brand is WPP plc (Jersey, 111714). It is listed, and the public ownership disclosures that exist are its own. Its 2025 Form 20-F, filed on 19 March 2026, reported these notified holdings as at 12 March 2026: BlackRock, Inc. 9.84%, FIL Limited 8.92% and Silchester International Investors LLP 5.03% of the issued ordinary share capital. Since then WPP plc has published these major-holdings notifications (form TR-1) under the FCA’s Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules:
- BlackRock, Inc.: 6.88% total on 1 April 2026 (4.91% voting rights attached to shares plus 1.97% through financial instruments). It then reported 6.89% on 7 April, 6.57% on 8 April and below 5% on 29 April 2026. On 30 September 2026 it reported 5.16% (4.25% shares plus 0.91% instruments), notified to WPP on 1 October 2026.
- Mondrian Investment Partners Limited: 4.96% (4.60% shares plus 0.36% instruments) on 22 May 2026, falling from 5.63%.
WPP plc reported 1,078,803,233 voting rights at 30 September 2026: 1,091,395,126 ordinary shares of 10p, of which 12,591,893 were held in treasury. Holdings below the notification thresholds are not disclosed, so the list above is not the full shareholder base.
Ultimate beneficial ownership
No ultimate beneficial owner can be named for this record, because it does not identify an entity. WPP plc’s own filings name no controlling shareholder. Its 20-F states that none of the notified holders has voting rights different from other holders of ordinary shares, and GLEIF records WPP plc as reporting no accounting-consolidation parent (exception reason NON_CONSOLIDATING).
Data availability
Major shareholders only, and only for WPP plc. The New York register publishes no shareholder or membership data for any corporation or LLC. Under FinCEN’s final rule of 11 August 2026, entities created in the United States are exempt from beneficial-ownership reporting. Any figures for a New York-registered WPP entity would therefore have to come from that entity’s own filings, and none is identified here.
Sources
- WPP plc, Form 20-F 2025, Item 7.A Major Shareholders, filed 19 March 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000162828026019643/wpp-20251231.htm — retrieved 2026-10-16
- WPP plc, Form 6-K (TR-1, BlackRock), filed 7 April 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000165495426003277/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- WPP plc, Form 6-K (TR-1, BlackRock), filed 9 April 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000165495426003365/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- WPP plc, Form 6-K (TR-1, BlackRock), filed 10 April 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000165495426003395/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- WPP plc, Form 6-K (TR-1, BlackRock, below 5%), filed 1 May 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000165495426004198/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- WPP plc, Form 6-K (TR-1, Mondrian Investment Partners), filed 26 May 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000165495426005353/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- WPP plc, Form 6-K (TR-1, BlackRock), filed 2 October 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000165495426008768/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- WPP plc, Form 6-K, Total Voting Rights and Capital, 1 October 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000165495426008713/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- GLEIF, ultimate-parent reporting exception for 549300LSGBXPYHXGDT93 — https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300LSGBXPYHXGDT93/ultimate-parent-reporting-exception — retrieved 2026-10-16
- FinCEN, Beneficial Ownership Information — https://www.fincen.gov/boi — retrieved 2026-10-16
Officers
Directors and officers of WPP
No directors or officers can be attributed to this record, because it does not identify a registered company. The name “WPP” is used by many legal persons, and each has its own board and officers. The stored provider text says officer data “is not available for this jurisdiction”. That is not a statement about any identified entity. The New York register’s active-corporation data does carry a chairman field for corporations, for example on WPP Group USA, Inc. (DOS ID 4879284), but no single register entry belongs to this record.
As labelled context only: the brand owner, WPP plc (Jersey, 111714), names its executive directors in its own filings. Its Chief Executive Officer is Cindy Rose, and its 6-K of 2 September 2026 reports share awards vesting to her in that role on 1 September 2026. These people are officers of WPP plc. They are not officers of this record.
Recent officer changes
- 23 September 2026 (announced, not yet effective): WPP plc said Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director Joanne Wilson will step down to become CFO of Diageo plc. She will stay in post until a successor is appointed, under a 12-month notice period, and no departure date has been agreed.
Data availability
Not found for this record. For WPP plc, board and executive data is public through its SEC and London Stock Exchange filings. The stored officer field on this record holds only a template note and no officer rows. Nationality is not disclosed in any source used here.
Sources
- WPP plc, Form 6-K, Directorate change – CFO succession, 23 September 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000165495426008523/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- WPP plc, Form 6-K, Director/PDMR shareholding, 2 September 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000165495426008084/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- New York Department of State, Active Corporations dataset, dos_id=4879284 — https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json?dos_id=4879284 — retrieved 2026-10-16
Group Structure
Group structure of WPP
This record cannot be placed in a group structure, because it does not identify a registered company and so has no parent or subsidiaries of its own. The brand belongs to WPP plc, a Jersey public company (registration number 111714). WPP plc files a full subsidiary list with the SEC as Exhibit 8.1 to its 2025 Form 20-F, which runs to about a thousand rows. Several of the New York-registered entities whose names begin “WPP” appear on that list as Delaware companies with a 100% ownership interest. The list gives each entity’s jurisdiction and percentage but no chain of holding, so it does not show whether a given interest is held directly or indirectly. Other New York entities with names beginning “WPP”, such as WPP Limo Service Inc. (DOS ID 5021278), are not on the list and nothing connects them to WPP plc.
The stored provider note says no linkage is available and that this “most often means the company is small”. That reason does not apply here. The New York register records no parent or subsidiary relationships for any entity, so its silence carries no information either way.
Verified corporate relationships
| Entity | Country | Registration number | Relationship | Ownership | Status | Information date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WPP plc | Jersey | 111714 (LEI 549300LSGBXPYHXGDT93) | Brand owner and listed group holding company; not linked to this record by any identifier | Not applicable | Active (GLEIF, fully corroborated) | 2026-08-11 |
| WPP Group USA, Inc. | United States (Delaware; authorised in New York) | NY DOS ID 4879284 | Listed in WPP plc’s Exhibit 8.1; not linked to this record | 100% (WPP plc group interest) | Active (NY register) | 2026-03-19 |
| WPP Group U.S. Finance LLC | United States (Delaware; authorised in New York) | Delaware 2181084 (GLEIF); NY DOS ID 4552288 | Listed in WPP plc’s Exhibit 8.1; not linked to this record | 100% (WPP plc group interest) | Active (NY register); LEI lapsed | 2026-03-19 |
| WPP Media Holdings LLC | United States (Delaware; authorised in New York) | NY DOS ID 7222585 | Listed in WPP plc’s Exhibit 8.1; not linked to this record | 100% (WPP plc group interest) | Active (NY register) | 2026-03-19 |
| WPP 2025 LLC | United States (Delaware; authorised in New York) | Delaware 10286808 (GLEIF); NY DOS ID 7692799 | Listed in WPP plc’s Exhibit 8.1 and co-registrant on WPP plc’s Form F-3; not linked to this record | 100% (WPP plc group interest) | Active (NY register) | 2026-03-19 |
Recent structural changes
- The New York register shows four successive authorities under the name “WPP Group USA, Inc.”, each tied to a different Delaware incorporation date. DOS ID 1452775 was granted on 4 June 1990 (incorporated 9 June 1987). DOS ID 2458426 was granted on 6 January 2000 (incorporated 11 December 1997) and terminated on 25 February 2014. DOS ID 4534593 was granted on 25 February 2014 (incorporated 3 October 2005) and terminated on 21 October 2015. The current DOS ID 4879284 was granted on 14 January 2016 (incorporated 15 September 2015). The register records these filings and does not give their reasons.
Data availability
Not found for this record. For WPP plc the subsidiary list is published, but it gives percentages without the holding chain. The percentages are group ownership interests and should not be read as one entity’s own share register.
Sources
- WPP plc, Form 20-F 2025, Exhibit 8.1 Subsidiaries of Registrant, filed 19 March 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000162828026019643/exhibit81listofsubsidiarie.htm — retrieved 2026-10-16
- WPP plc, Form 6-K (Form F-3 file no. 333-294468 co-registrants), filed 30 March 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806968/000094787126000367/ — retrieved 2026-10-16
- New York Department of State, “Corporations and Other Entities: All Filings” (dataset 63wc-4exh) — https://data.ny.gov/resource/63wc-4exh.json?corp_name=WPP%20GROUP%20USA,%20INC. — retrieved 2026-10-16
- New York Department of State, “Active Corporations: Beginning 1800” (dataset n9v6-gdp6) — https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json — retrieved 2026-10-16
- GLEIF LEI records for WPP PLC, WPP Group U.S. Finance LLC and WPP 2025 LLC — https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records?filter[entity.legalName]=WPP* — retrieved 2026-10-16
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does WPP do?
The name WPP on this record is a brand, not a single registered company: the record has no registration number, and no New York entity is registered under the name WPP alone. The brand belongs to WPP plc (Jersey, no. 111714), a marketing-services group operating in more than 100 countries.
Who owns WPP?
No shareholders can be attributed to this record because it does not identify a company. WPP plc's latest notified major holders include BlackRock, Inc. at 5.16% (30 September 2026) and, per its 2025 Form 20-F as at 12 March 2026, FIL Limited 8.92% and Silchester International Investors 5.03%.
Who is WPP's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No ultimate beneficial owner can be named for this record. WPP plc's filings name no controlling shareholder, and US entities are exempt from FinCEN beneficial-ownership reporting under the 11 August 2026 final rule.
Is WPP still an active company?
WPP's status on New York Department of State — Division of Corporations is listed as active.
What is WPP's registered address?
The registered address on file for WPP is United States.
What is WPP's revenue?
No revenue can be attributed to this record. WPP plc reported 2025 consolidated revenue of £13,550 million and revenue less pass-through costs of £10,176 million (Form 20-F filed 19 March 2026); these are group figures, not those of any New York entity.
Is WPP listed on a stock exchange?
This record is not a listed entity. WPP plc, which owns the WPP brand, is listed in London and its American Depositary Shares trade on the NYSE under the ticker WPP.
Who are the officers/directors of WPP?
No directors or officers can be attributed to this record. WPP plc's Chief Executive Officer is Cindy Rose; its CFO Joanne Wilson announced on 23 September 2026 that she will step down, with no departure date yet agreed.
Does WPP have a parent company or subsidiaries?
This record cannot be placed in a group because it identifies no company. Several New York-authorised Delaware entities named WPP, such as WPP Group USA, Inc. (NY DOS ID 4879284), are listed as 100% interests in WPP plc's 2025 Exhibit 8.1 subsidiary list.
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This profile reflects a point-in-time snapshot from New York Department of State — Division of Corporations. Zavia's monitoring API can track changes to WPP's registered shareholders, officers, and group structure going forward, flagging updates as they're filed rather than requiring a manual recheck.
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Where does this company information come from, and how current is it?
This record is sourced directly from New York Department of State — Division of Corporations and was last synced on 29 September 2026.