Acquisition

WPP GROUP PLC
21 July 1999

                    WPP GROUP PLC ('WPP')
                              

WPP announces that it has acquired, on behalf of its wholly-
owned  subsidiary J  Walter Thompson Company  ('JWT'),   the
outstanding 49% of advertising agency Grill & Gull  Thompson
GmbH  in  Austria ('Grill & Gull').  Grill & Gull is  now  a
wholly-owned member of the JWT network.

Clients  of  Vienna-based  Grill & Gull,  include  Unilever,
Jacobs  Suchard,  Kellogg, Austrian Airlines,  telering  and
Baumax & Generali.

Grill  &  Gull had revenues of ATS 65 million for  the  year
ended  31 December 1998 and net assets of ATS 18,806,000  as
at 31 December 1998.

This  acquisition  of a further interest  in  Grill  &  Gull
continues  the Group's strategy of strengthening its  agency
networks in Central and Eastern Europe.



Editor's Note:

JWT  is the fifth largest advertising agency network in  the
world  with  billings  of $8.5 billion  and  offices  in  87
countries.


Contact:
Feona McEwan at WPP London     Tel: [phone]