Directorate Change

WPP Group PLC
25 July 2005


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                             25 July 2005


                             WPP GROUP PLC ("WPP")

                        COLIN DAY APPOINTED TO WPP BOARD

WPP announces the appointment of Colin Day, Group Chief Financial Officer of
Reckitt Benckiser, as non-executive director. He joins the Board of WPP with
immediate effect.

Mr Day, aged 50, is a highly-regarded financier with more than 25 years'
experience of blue chip companies, including Aegis Group Plc, ABB Group, De La
Rue Group Plc and British Gas. For the last five years he has been Group Chief
Financial Officer of Reckitt Benckiser Plc, the global household cleaning
products company, which has operations in some 70 countries, sales in 180 and
net revenues of nearly £4 billion. In this role he is responsible for financial
controls and reporting, treasury, tax, corporate development, legal affairs and
internal audit.

Prior to Reckitt Benckiser, between 1995 and 2000, Colin Day was Group Finance
Director of Aegis Group Plc, the media communications and market research
company. Previously, in 1988, he joined ABB Group as Group Finance Director of
ABB Kent Plc, later moving to Group Finance Director of ABB Instrumentation Ltd.
Earlier, he spent eight years at De La Rue Group Plc, in various financial and
accounting roles, ultimately becoming Group Financial Controller of a De La Rue
Group subsidiary. Mr Day started his career in 1973 as a trainee accountant at
Kodak, moving to British Gas a year later working on internal audit, management
and project accounts.

For further information please contact:

Feona McEwan, WPP                       44-20 7408 2204
www.wpp.com



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