WPP to Leave London Headquarters After More Than 30 Years

Move seen as a post-Sorrell refresh

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The world’s largest holding group is set to abandon its small, quaint space in London’s West End.

The move comes more than three decades after WPP officially set up shop at 27 Farm Street, Mayfair, and four months after the abrupt departure of CEO and chairman Martin Sorrell.

Campaign first broke the news this morning, and a WPP spokesperson confirmed that story’s accuracy this afternoon but declined to elaborate.

Co-COOs Mark Read and Andrew Scott, who have been running the network since Sorrell officially resigned in April, made the announcement in a memo that went out to a small group of U.K.-based

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