Exhibit 99.1

WPP Group plc has  submitted  the J. Walter  Thompson  Company  U.S.  Employees'
Profit  Sharing and Matched  Savings  Plan,  the Hill and  Knowlton,  Inc.  401K
Matched Savings Plan, the Myshare Retirement Plan and the Ogilvy & Mather Profit
Sharing Retirement and 401(k) Plan  (collectively,  the "Plans") to the Internal
Revenue Service ("IRS") and undertakes that it will submit any amendments to any
of the Plans to the IRS in a timely manner.  WPP Group plc also  undertakes that
it will, or will cause its subsidiaries to, make all changes required by the IRS
in order to qualify the Plans under Section 401 of the Internal  Revenue Code of
1986, as amended.


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