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Ken Luce's LDWW represents Carnival Corp. as the world's No. 1 cruise ship operator today announced plans to raise $6B via the sale of bonds and stock to help stave off Chapter XI,
Carnival has docked its fleet until May 15 in the aftermath of COVID-19 quarantines and subsequent death of passengers who had booked trips on its Grand Princess and Diamond Princess ships.
The company posted a $781M loss for the quarter ended February compared to a year ago $336M profit. Carnival's stock trades at $13.31. 52-week range is $7.90 and $56.04.
Luce launched Dallas-based LDWW in 2012 after serving as global COO at Hill+Knowlton Strategies, president client management at Weber Shandwick and aide to Texas governor Rick Perry.
LDWW partner Mike Flanagan handles the Carnival business, working in conjunction with the company's senior VP/CCO Roger Frizzell.
Mike Sitrick has bought his firm Sitrick And Company back from RGP, the Dallas-based management consulting firm. He sold the strategic communications powerhouse for $43.4M in Oct. 2009.
Omnicom CEO John Wren enjoyed a 222 percent jump in 2025 compensation to $69.9M as the firm completed the acquisition of Interpublic.
Public Policy Holding Company recorded 24.7 percent growth in 2025 revenues to $186.5M and a 32.1 percent surge in adjusted net income to $36.6M.
S&P Global has reaffirmed its negative “BBB” rating on WPP due to ongoing challenges that it will face during the next 12 months.
Stagwell’s Q4 revenues grew two percent to $807M while adjusted EBITDA rose three percent to $129M.
