WPP Group USA 401(k) and retirement plans

WPP Group USA, Inc., New York, NY. EIN 20-4031493. Annual reports 2009–2024. Also filed as VML, Inc.

WPP Group USA, Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the The Savings and Investment Plan, with 41,591 participants and $4.7 billion in assets in 2024. Vanguard has been its recordkeeper since 2015. No traditional pension plan appears in WPP Group USA's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 41,591
Plan assets: $4.7 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: Vanguard
Plans on file: 3
Industry: Professional services

All 3 plans

Active plans first

The Savings and Investment Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 20-4031493
Participants (2024): 41,591
Net assets (2024): $4.7 billion
Recordkeeper: Vanguard2015–2024
Plan administrator: WPP Group USA, Inc.
3 World Trade Center, 31ST Floor, 175 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10007
(212) 632-2200As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 1, 2003

Plans merged into this one: VML, Inc. 401(k) Plan (2019); Ogilvy & Mather Savings and Investment Plan (2017).

Year by year, 2015 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	41,591	$4.7 billion	Vanguard
2023	42,052	$4.3 billion	Vanguard
2022	42,825	$3.6 billion	Vanguard
2021	40,007	$4.3 billion	Vanguard
2020	38,209	$3.9 billion	Vanguard
2019	40,947	$3.4 billion	Vanguard
2018	35,292	$2.7 billion	Vanguard
2017	34,246	$2.7 billion	Vanguard
2016	27,467	$2.0 billion	Vanguard
2015	23,669	$1.5 billion	Vanguard

VML, Inc. 401(k) Plan

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2019 its assets moved to the The Savings and Retirement Plan, sponsored by WPP Group USA, Inc. (EIN 20-4031493, plan 001). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 003Employer EIN 20-4031493
Recordkeeper: Principal2019
Plan administrator: VML, Inc.
250 Richards Road
Kansas City, MO 64116
(816) 283-0700As filed for 2019
In effect since: May 1, 2001

The Savings & Investment Plan

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2014 its assets moved to the Young & Rubicam 401(k) /SAVINGS Plan, sponsored by Young & Rubicam LLC (EIN 13-1493710, plan 002). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 13-3980559
Participants (2014): 12,497
Net assets (2014): $641 million
Recordkeeper: Vanguard2009–2014
Plan administrator: WPP Group USA, Inc.
100 Park Avenue, 4TH Floor
New York, NY 10017
(212) 632-2451As filed for 2014
In effect since: January 1, 2003

Plans merged into this one: Young & Rubicam 401(k) /SAVINGS Plan (2015); The M Plan (2015); J. Walter Thompson Company Profit Sharing and (2019); Profit Sharing and 401(k) Savings Plan for the Employees of Grey Global Group Inc. (2015); Centerpartners, Inc. 401(k) Plan (2014); Hill and Knowlton Retirement and 401(k) Savings Plan (2015).

Year by year, 2009 to 2014

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2014	12,497	$641 million	Vanguard
2013	10,666	$562 million	Vanguard
2012	10,253	$412 million	Vanguard
2011	7,577	$340 million	Vanguard
2010	7,828	$329 million	Vanguard
2009	8,625	$265 million	Vanguard

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Vanguard (investor.vanguard.com), which runs the The Savings and Investment Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((212) 632-2200). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.