Bharat Thakrar WPP Scangroup AGM board battle June 8 2026
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Bharat Thakrar WPP Scangroup AGM board battle June 8 2026
The man who built WPP Scangroup into East Africa's dominant advertising group and then watched his successors lose more than half its market value is now, five years later, walking into the company's annual general meeting to try to take it back.Bharat Thakrar, founder and former chief executive of WPP Scangroup, has called on minority shareholders to attend and vote at the company's twentieth AGM, scheduled for Monday, June 8, 2026, in support …
The Founder Strikes Back: Is Bharat Thakrar Turning His Scangroup Ouster into Boardroom Revenge?
When Bharat Thakrar left WPP Scangroup in 2021, many thought one of East Africa’s most powerful advertising careers had ended in humiliation. The founder had been suspended. The board had announced investigations into alleged gross misconduct. The man who had built SCANAD from a one-man agency into Scangroup, then into WPP Scangroup, had been forced out of the corner office of the company most people still associated with his name, his ambition …
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