BBDO

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">barton supported coolidge etc</font>

<a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0604.greenberg.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0604.greenberg.html</font></a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBDO"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBDO</font></a>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Dusenberry</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">on tuesday team</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> ===</font></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/oil-industry-documents-disinformation.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/oil-industry-documents-disinformation.html</font></a></p><p>
</p><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">no lnx</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oil Executives Privately Contradicted Public Statements on Climate, Files Show</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The documents, subpoenaed in a House investigation of climate disinformation, show company leaders contravening industry commitments.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Hiroko Tabuchi</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Sept. 14, 2022</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Documents obtained by congressional investigators show that oil industry executives privately downplayed their companies’ own public messages about efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and weakened industry-wide commitments to push for climate policies.</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Internal Exxon documents show that the oil giant pressed an industry group, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, to remove language from a 2019 policy statement that “could create a potential commitment to advocate on the Paris Agreement goals.” The Paris Agreement is the landmark 2015 pact among nations of the world to avert catastrophic global warming. The statement’s final version didn’t mention Paris.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At Royal Dutch Shell, an October 2020 email sent by an employee, discussing talking points for Shell’s president for the United States, said that the company’s announcement of a pathway to “net zero” emissions — the point at which the world would no longer be pumping planet-warming gases into the atmosphere — “has nothing to do with our business plans.”</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These and other documents, reviewed by The New York Times, come from a cache of hundreds of thousands of pages of corporate emails, memos and other files obtained under subpoena as part of an examination by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform into the <b>fossil fuel industry’s efforts over the decades to mislead the public about its role in climate change, dismissing evidence that the burning of fossil fuels was driving an increase in global temperatures even as their own scientists warned of a clear link</b>.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Thursday, the House committee is expected to discuss some of its early findings. “It’s well established that these companies actively misled the American public for decades about the risks of climate change,” said Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California who spearheaded the investigation with Carolyn B. Maloney, the New York Democrat who leads the House committee. “The problem is that they continue to mislead,” Mr. Khanna said.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>At a hearing last year, oil industry executives stressed their support for a transition to clean energy and denied that they have misled the public. They acknowledged that the burning of their products was driving climate change, although none pledged to end their financial support for efforts to block action on climate change, and they said that fossil fuels were here to stay.</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The committee’s subpoena has sought documents related to companies’ role in contributing to climate change, their marketing and lobbying efforts on climate, and the funding of third parties accused of spreading climate disinformation. Several of the companies and organizations subpoenaed — which include Shell, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP, the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — have yet to produce some of the key documents that have been requested, according to committee staff members.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to the staff, a significant part of the material submitted so far includes news clippings and other materials that were already public. Still, the documents gathered so far show that the companies’ internal discussions in recent years haven’t always matched up with their public statements and marketing campaigns, and that some of the companies’ leading climate strategies rely on unproven technologies.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the Exxon memo describing the edits it sought in the oil industry policy statement, which was drawn up ahead of the 2019 United Nations global climate talks, Peter Trelenberg, Exxon’s manager of environmental policy and planning, wrote: “Need to remove reference to Paris Agreement” from the statement because “Creating a tie between our advocacy/engagements and the Paris Agreement could create a potential commitment to advocate on the Paris Agreement goals.”</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[The Spread of Misinformation and Falsehoods</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Election Fraud Claims: A new report says that major social media companies continue to fuel false conspiracies about election fraud despite promises to combat misinformation ahead of the midterm elections.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Russian Falsehoods: Kremlin conspiracy theories blaming the West for disrupting the global food supply have bled into right-wing chat rooms and mainstream conservative news media in the United States.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Media Literacy Efforts: As young people spend more time online, educators are increasingly trying to offer students tools and strategies to protect themselves from false narratives.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Global Threat: New research shows that nearly three-quarters of respondents across 19 countries with advanced economies are very concerned about false information online.]</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The memo, addressed to Exxon chief executive, Darren Woods, and other top executives, went on to indicate that Chevron had “expressed that they are generally aligned with these edits.”</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Exxon and Chevron did not respond to requests for comment. A representative for the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative did not comment on the advocacy document but said that “advocacy for Paris goals underpins everything that O.G.C.I. does.”</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Separate files from Exxon show the company grappling with a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign promoting the potential for fuels made from algae. The campaign focused on the promise of the technology and featured images of vast pools of algae, along with a scientist looking forward to calling herself an “energy farmer.” (Versions of the ads have appeared in The New York Times.)</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A set of presentation notes that had been prepared for a September 2018 engineering talk by one of its executives stated that the technology is “still decades away from the scale we need.” And in a November 2016 email, an Exxon employee said that an early draft for the ad, prepared by the advertising agency BBDO Worldwide, needed to “replace any lines that imply the technology is live today.”</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BBDO did not respond to a request for comment.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Shell internal documents discussing the company’s “net zero” pathway also included guidelines for employees that stated, “Please do not give the impression that Shell is willing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to levels that do not make business sense.”</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[Algae at a greenhouse in La Jolla, Calif., in 2010. The operation was sponsored by Exxon Mobil.Credit...Sunday Huffaker for The New York Times</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Curtis Smith, a spokesman for Shell, said in a statement that the company had provided nearly a half-million pages of documents to the committee and that “the small handful they chose to highlight are evidence of Shell’s extensive efforts to set aggressive targets.” Included in those documents are “challenging internal and external discussions,” he said.</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He added that it was widely understood that Shell’s net zero scenarios “are not prescriptions, predictions or meant to represent Shell’s current business plan” and instead represent “the scale of the challenge and levers policymakers might pull.”</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The committee’s work comes as Democrats’ climate agenda has been re-energized by the passage of a climate and tax bill that includes nearly $370 billion in tax incentives and programs intended to speed up the nation’s transition from an economy based on oil, gas and coal to one powered by wind, solar and other renewable forms of energy.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A number of cities and states have sued oil companies, alleging that they misled the public about fossil fuels’ role in warming the planet, with detrimental effects on local communities. Last year, a Dutch court ruled that Shell must substantially accelerate its efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Shell has appealed the ruling.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The House committee was scheduled to hold a hearing on Thursday to examine recent record-breaking oil industry profits, hear from industry experts and from people affected by recent extreme weather events. It had also requested board members from the oil companies to attend. The companies declined.</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At Thursday’s hearing, members also plan to highlight emails that appear to show oil executives making light of climate extreme-heat records. In an August 2017 email exchange, for example, two BP executives found humor in the news at the time that scientists had reported Earth’s warmest year on record.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I’ll buy the first round Monday night before we say our goodbyes,” Joe Ellis, then BP vice president and head of U.S. government affairs, wrote to colleagues.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“A ‘hot toddy’ maybe?</b>” Bob Stout, then vice president and head of regulatory affairs, wrote back.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The former BP executives didn’t respond to requests for comment.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">J.P. Fielder, head of U.S. communications at BP, described the exchange as “<b>inartful attempts at humor that do not reflect the values of BP a</b>nd should not distract from our actions.”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> He noted that BP has committed to a net zero emissions target across its sales, operations and production by 2050 or sooner.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hiroko Tabuchi is an investigative reporter on the Climate desk. She was part of the Times team that received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. @HirokoTabuchi • Facebook</div>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-----</font></p><p class="skip" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After a year-long review, ExxonMobil has consolidated global advertising duties with Interpublic Group of Cos' <a href="http://adage.com/directory/universal-mccann/139" class="directory_entry" title="Ad Age Directory" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 17, 17, 0); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); background: transparent;">Universal McCann</a> for media, while global creative will largely be handled by Omnicom Group's BBDO, according to executives familiar with the matter.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roster shop DDB, also an Omnicom firm, will hold onto below-the-line work for Exxon's fuel business, continuing to create signage for gas stations, among other things, executives said. As part of the consolidation, BBDO won the above-the-line fuels business, which accounts for all other advertising for fuels. BBDO will handle corporate advertising for Exxon as well as creative work that was previously handled by Interpublic's <a href="http://adage.com/directory/mccann-erickson/18" class="directory_entry" title="Ad Age Directory" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 17, 17, 0); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); background: transparent;">McCann Erickson</a> and Havas' EuroRSCG.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Omnicom Group</b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange" title="New York Stock Exchange">NYSE</a>: <a href="http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/quickquote.html?ticker=omc" class="external text" rel="nofollow">OMC</a>) is a strategic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holding_company" title="Holding company">holding company</a> whose agencies provide services in the following disciplines: advertising, customer relationship management (CRM), strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications. Omnicom’s agency networks include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBDO" title="BBDO">BBDO</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDB_Worldwide" title="DDB Worldwide">DDB Worldwide</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBWA_Worldwide" title="TBWA Worldwide">TBWA Worldwide</a>, Diversified Agency Services (DAS) and Omnicom Media Group (OMG). Omnicom's public relations, CRM and specialty communications agency holdings are managed by its DAS network. Omnicom's CRM agency holdings include Javelin, Proximity Worldwide, Rapp and Targetbase. Its PR agency holdings include Brodeur Worldwide, Fleishman-Hillard, Ketchum Inc., Pleon and Porter Novelli. Omnicom Media Group includes OMD Worldwide, PHD Worldwide and Resolution Media. Omnicom was formed in 1986 from the merger between advertising agency networks DDB, Needham Harper Steers and BBDO.</font></p>

<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#History"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Timeline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Timeline</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Quick_facts"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Quick facts</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Companies"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Companies</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Advertising_and_Media"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Advertising and Media</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Media_Planning_and_Buying"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Media Planning and Buying</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Channel_.26_Field_Marketing"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Channel & Field Marketing</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Public_relations"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Public relations</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Customer_Relationship_Management"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Customer Relationship Management</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Outsourcing-Services"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.6</span> <span class="toctext">Outsourcing-Services</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Full_Service_Marketing_Agencies"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.7</span> <span class="toctext">Full Service Marketing Agencies</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Specialty"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.8</span> <span class="toctext">Specialty</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Marketing_Technology"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.9</span> <span class="toctext">Marketing Technology</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Market_Research"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.10</span> <span class="toctext">Market Research</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Competitors"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Competitors</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Governance"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Governance</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#Lobbying_for_the_Russian_government"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Lobbying for the Russian government</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#External_links"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></font></a></li>

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<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Timeline">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Timeline">Timeline</span></font></h3>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1986 merger of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBDO" title="BBDO">BBDO</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyle_Dane_Bernbach" title="Doyle Dane Bernbach" class="mw-redirect">Doyle Dane Bernbach</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Needham_Harper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Needham Harper (page does not exist)">Needham Harper</a> <sup id="cite_ref-Adland_0-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_note-Adland-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1986 <i>"Big Bang"</i>: Omnicom established <sup id="cite_ref-Adland_0-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_note-Adland-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1988 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_J.Meyer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fred J. Meyer (page does not exist)">Fred J. Meyer</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Watt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Watt (page does not exist)">John Watt</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dennis_E.Hewitt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dennis E. Hewitt (page does not exist)">Dennis E. Hewitt</a> join Omnicom.</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1991 WPP sells its 22% stake in AMV to Omnicom for £7.5m</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1993 buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aegis_%28UK_group%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aegis (UK group) (page does not exist)">Aegis</a></font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1993 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBWA" title="TBWA" class="mw-redirect">TBWA</a> acquired by Omnicom <sup id="cite_ref-Adland_0-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_note-Adland-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1994 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Freud" title="Matthew Freud">Matthew Freud</a> sells <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud_Communications" title="Freud Communications">Freud Communications</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_Mead_Vickers" title="Abbott Mead Vickers" class="mw-redirect">Abbott Mead Vickers</a></font></li>

</ul>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1995 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiat/Day" title="Chiat/Day" class="mw-redirect">Chiat/Day</a> acquired by Omnicom <sup id="cite_ref-Adland_0-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_note-Adland-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></font></li>

</ul>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1996 sells 13% holding in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aegis_%28UK_group%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aegis (UK group) (page does not exist)">Aegis</a> for £45.4m</font></li>

</ul>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1996 buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ketchum_Communications&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ketchum Communications (page does not exist)">Ketchum Communications</a></font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1996 Omnicom's BBDO Worldwide raises stake in AMV from 28.4% to 29.6%</font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1996 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchum" title="Ketchum">Ketchum</a> and Hong Kong-based <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newscan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Newscan (page does not exist)">Newscan</a> establish <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ketchum_Newscan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ketchum Newscan (page does not exist)">Ketchum Newscan</a></font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1997 takes stakes in interactive agencies: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency.com" title="Agency.com">Agency.com</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Online" title="Organic Online" class="mw-redirect">Organic Online</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorfish" title="Razorfish">Razorfish</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interactive_Solutions&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Interactive Solutions (page does not exist)">Interactive Solutions</a></font></li>

</ul>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1998 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GGT_BDDP&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="GGT BDDP (page does not exist)">GGT BDDP</a> acquired by Omnicom <sup id="cite_ref-Adland_0-4" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_note-Adland-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1998 Omnicom buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_Mead_Vickers" title="Abbott Mead Vickers" class="mw-redirect">Abbott Mead Vickers</a> for £346m <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup></font></li>

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<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1998 buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gold_Greenless_Trott&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gold Greenless Trott (page does not exist)">Gold Greenless Trott</a> for £143m</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1998 takes 20% of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I%26S&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="I&S (page does not exist)">I&S</a>, Japan's eighth-largest ad agency</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1999 buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheppard_Associates&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sheppard Associates (page does not exist)">Sheppard Associates</a></font></li>

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<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1999 buys The M/A/R/C Group; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Targetbase&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Targetbase (page does not exist)">Targetbase</a> & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M/A/R/C_Research" title="M/A/R/C Research">M/A/R/C Research</a></font></li>

</ul>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1999 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Partners" title="Direct Partners" class="mw-redirect">Direct Partners</a> acquired by Omnicom</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2000 buys shareholding in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LiveTechnology_Holdings,_Inc&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LiveTechnology Holdings, Inc (page does not exist)">LiveTechnology Holdings, Inc</a><a href="http://www.LiveTechnology.com" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[1]</a></font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001 buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grizzard_Communications&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Grizzard Communications (page does not exist)">Grizzard Communications</a> for US$91m</font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Freud" title="Matthew Freud">Matthew Freud</a> leads £10m buyout of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud_Communications" title="Freud Communications">Freud Communications</a></font></li>

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<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001 buys The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Washington_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Washington Group (page does not exist)">Washington Group</a></font></li>

</ul>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001 buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stromberg_Consulting&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stromberg Consulting (page does not exist)">Stromberg Consulting</a></font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001 takes stake in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estrategia_Assessoria_de_Comunicacao&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Estrategia Assessoria de Comunicacao (page does not exist)">Estrategia Assessoria de Comunicacao</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a></font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001 buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corporate_Technology_Communications&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Corporate Technology Communications (page does not exist)">Corporate Technology Communications</a></font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2002 creates <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Element_79_Partners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Element 79 Partners (page does not exist)">Element 79 Partners</a> agency in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a></font></li>

</ul>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2002 buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPG" title="TPG" class="mw-redirect">TPG</a> (inc The Peter Group, AI Advertising and Topak Marketing)</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2002 buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aaron_Walton_Entertainment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aaron Walton Entertainment (page does not exist)">Aaron Walton Entertainment</a></font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2003 buys <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic,_Inc." title="Organic, Inc.">Organic, Inc.</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel%2BGale" title="Siegel+Gale" class="mw-redirect">Siegel+Gale</a></font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2005 buys Resolution Media</font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2005 buys Luntz-Maslansky Strategic Research</font></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2006 buys <a href="http://www.rodgerstownsend.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Rodgers Townsend</a></font></li>

</ul>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2006 buys 50% shareholding in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=180_Amsterdam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="180 Amsterdam (page does not exist)">180 Amsterdam</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=180_LA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="180 LA (page does not exist)">180 LA</a></font></li>

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<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Quick facts">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Quick_facts">Quick facts</span></font></h3>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Revenue (2004): 9.747 B</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Revenue (2008): 13.359 B</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Revenue (2007): 12.694 B</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Revenue (2006): 11.376 B</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Employees (2008): 68,000</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Omnicom's CEO is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D._Wren&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John D. Wren (page does not exist)">John D. Wren</a>. CFO is Randall Weisenburger. The Chairman of the Board is Bruce Crawford. It is headquartered on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Avenue" title="Madison Avenue">Madison Avenue</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>.</font></li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=180_Amsterdam/180_LA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="180 Amsterdam / 180 LA (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">180 Amsterdam / 180 LA</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AI Advertising</font></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Total_Advertising&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Total Advertising (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Total Advertising</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AdSource&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="AdSource (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">AdSource</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AvreaFoster" title="AvreaFoster"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">AvreaFoster</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arnell_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arnell Group (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Arnell Group</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBDO" title="BBDO">BBDO</a> Worldwide</font></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colangelo" title="Colangelo"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Colangelo</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proximity_Worldwide&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Proximity Worldwide (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Proximity Worldwide</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDB_Worldwide" title="DDB Worldwide"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DDB Worldwide</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtown_Partners_%28Toronto%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Downtown Partners (Toronto) (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Downtown Partners (Toronto)</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Element_79_Partners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Element 79 Partners (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Element 79 Partners</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAME_%28retail_brand_agency%29" title="FAME (retail brand agency)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">FAME (retail brand agency)</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodby_Silverstein_%26_Partners" title="Goodby Silverstein & Partners" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Goodby Silverstein & Partners</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mudra_Communications&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mudra Communications (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Mudra Communications</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin/Williams&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Martin/Williams (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Martin/Williams</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkley_%26_Partners" title="Merkley & Partners" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Merkley & Partners</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Media_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Omnicom Media Group (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Omnicom Media Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic,_Inc." title="Organic, Inc."><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Organic, Inc.</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prometheus_%28advertising%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prometheus (advertising) (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Prometheus (advertising)</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.rodgerstownsend.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Rodgers Townsend</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">martin|williams <a href="http://www.martinwilliams.com/" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></font></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBWA_Worldwide" title="TBWA Worldwide"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">TBWA Worldwide</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TEQUILA%5C&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TEQUILA (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">TEQUILA</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_DDB" title="Tribal DDB"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tribal DDB</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Integer_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Integer Group (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Integer Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.thekernorg.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Kern Organization</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Peter_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Peter Group (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Peter Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Topak_Marketing,_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Topak Marketing, Inc. (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Topak Marketing, Inc.</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TracyLocke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TracyLocke (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">TracyLocke</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.zadv.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Zimmerman Advertising</font></a></li>

</ul>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Resolution_Media&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Resolution Media (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Resolution Media</font></a></li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPM_Group" title="CPM Group"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">CPM Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creative_Channel_Services&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Creative Channel Services (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Creative Channel Services</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MarketStar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MarketStar (page does not exist)">MarketStar</a> <a href="http://www.marketstar.com" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[3]</a></font></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_In-Store&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National In-Store (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">National In-Store</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.piercepromotions.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pierce Promotions & Event Management</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unisono_Fieldmarketing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Unisono Fieldmarketing (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Unisono Fieldmarketing</font></a></li>

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<li><a href="http://www.beaupre.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Beaupre</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brodeur_Partners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brodeur Partners (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Brodeur Partners</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleishman-Hillard" title="Fleishman-Hillard"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Fleishman-Hillard</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchum_Inc." title="Ketchum Inc.">Ketchum</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleon" title="Pleon">Pleon</a></font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Novelli" title="Porter Novelli">Porter Novelli</a> International</font></li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency.com" title="Agency.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Agency.com</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alcone_Marketing_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alcone Marketing Group (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Alcone Marketing Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AtmosphereBBDO" title="AtmosphereBBDO" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">AtmosphereBBDO</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Partners" title="Direct Partners" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Direct Partners</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMR_Marketing" title="GMR Marketing"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">GMR Marketing</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integer_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Integer Group (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Integer Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Javelin_Direct&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Javelin Direct (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Javelin Direct</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RAPP_Worldwide&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="RAPP Worldwide (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">RAPP Worldwide</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Targetbase_Marketing_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Targetbase Marketing Inc. (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Targetbase Marketing Inc.</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.Marketing%26_Promotions&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="U.S. Marketing & Promotions (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">U.S. Marketing & Promotions</font></a></li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellbytel_Group" title="Sellbytel Group"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sellbytel Group</font></a></li>

</ul>

<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Full Service Marketing Agencies">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Full_Service_Marketing_Agencies">Full Service Marketing Agencies</span></font></h3>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TPG_Direct&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TPG Direct (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">TPG Direct</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Grizzard Communications Group <a href="http://nonprofit.grizzard.com/" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[4]</a></font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SinoTech Group <a href="http://www.sinotechgroup.com.cn/" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[5]</a></font></li>

</ul>

<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Specialty">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Specialty">Specialty</span></font></h3>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Hodes_Group" title="Bernard Hodes Group">Bernard Hodes Group</a><a href="http://www.hodes.co.uk/" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[6]</a></font></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Changing_Our_World,_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Changing Our World, Inc. (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Changing Our World, Inc.</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cline_Davis_%26_Mann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cline Davis & Mann (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Cline Davis & Mann</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corbett_Accel_Healthcare_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Corbett Accel Healthcare Group (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Corbett Accel Healthcare Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_%28agency%29" title="Critical mass (agency)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Critical Mass Inc.</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davie_Brown_Entertainment" title="Davie Brown Entertainment"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Davie-Brown Entertainment</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dieste,Harmel%26_Partners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dieste, Harmel & Partners (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Dieste, Harmel & Partners</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doremus_%26_Co." title="Doremus & Co."><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Doremus & Co.</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eden_Communications_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eden Communications Group (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Eden Communications Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_%26_Partners" title="Hall & Partners"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Hall & Partners</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harrison_%26_Star_Business_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harrison & Star Business Group (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Harrison & Star Business Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hornall_Anderson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hornall Anderson (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Hornall Anderson</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Innovyx&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Innovyx (page does not exist)">Innovyx</a><a href="http://www.innovyx.com/" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[7]</a></font></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbrand" title="Interbrand"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Interbrand</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbrand_Zintzmeyer_%26_Lux" title="Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kaleidoscope_Productions&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kaleidoscope Productions (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kaleidoscope Productions</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LatinWorks" title="LatinWorks"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">LatinWorks</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LIVE_Communication&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LIVE Communication (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">LIVE Communication</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millions_of_Us_LLC" title="Millions of Us LLC"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Millions of Us LLC</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MobileBehavior&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MobileBehavior (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">MobileBehavior</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiate_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Radiate Group (page does not exist)">Radiate Group</a><a href="http://www.radiategroup.com/" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[8]</a></font></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Recruitment_Enhancement_Services&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Recruitment Enhancement Services (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Recruitment Enhancement Services</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seragini_Brand_Design&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seragini Brand Design (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Seragini Brand Design</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift" title="Shift">Shift</a> <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></font></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel%2BGale" title="Siegel+Gale" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Siegel+Gale</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Singer_Direct&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Singer Direct (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Singer Direct</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beanstalk_Group" title="The Beanstalk Group"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Beanstalk Group</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Integer_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Integer Group (page does not exist)">The Integer Group</a><a href="http://www.integer.com/" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[9]</a></font></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marketing_Arm" title="The Marketing Arm"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Marketing Arm</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolff_Olins" title="Wolff Olins"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wolff Olins</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Z%C3%B3calo_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zócalo Group (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Zócalo Group</font></a></li>

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<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Marketing Technology">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Marketing_Technology">Marketing Technology</span></font></h3>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Code_Worldwide&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Code Worldwide (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Code Worldwide</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LiveTechnology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LiveTechnology (page does not exist)">LiveTechnology</a><a href="http://www.LiveTechnology.com" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[10]</a></font></li>

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<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Market Research">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Market_Research">Market Research</span></font></h3>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hall & Partners Group</font></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M/A/R/C_Research" title="M/A/R/C Research"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">M/A/R/C Research</font></a></li>

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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Competitors">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Competitors">Competitors</span></font></h2>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In order of revenue:</font></p>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPP_Group" title="WPP Group">WPP Group</a> PLC (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ" title="NASDAQ">NASDAQ</a>:<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=wppgy" class="external text" rel="nofollow">WPPGY</a>)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpublic_Group" title="Interpublic Group" class="mw-redirect">Interpublic Group</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYSE" title="NYSE" class="mw-redirect">NYSE</a>:<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ipg" class="external text" rel="nofollow">IPG</a>)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicis_Groupe" title="Publicis Groupe" class="mw-redirect">Publicis Groupe</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYSE" title="NYSE" class="mw-redirect">NYSE</a>:<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=pub" class="external text" rel="nofollow">PUB</a>)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDC_Partners" title="MDC Partners">MDC Partners</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ" title="NASDAQ">NASDAQ</a>:<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=mdca" class="external text" rel="nofollow">MDCA</a>)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havas" title="Havas">Havas</a> (Delisted from NASDAQ)</font></li>

</ul>

<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Governance">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Governance">Governance</span></font></h2>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The company is governed by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_directors" title="Board of directors">board of directors</a>. Current members of the board are: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C.Clark" title="Robert C. Clark">Robert C. Clark</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_S.Coleman,Jr." title="Leonard S. Coleman, Jr.">Leonard S. Coleman, Jr.</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Errol_Cook&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Errol Cook (page does not exist)">Errol Cook</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce_Crawford%28businessman%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bruce Crawford (businessman) (page does not exist)">Bruce Crawford</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_Denison&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Susan Denison (page does not exist)">Susan Denison</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Henning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Henning (page does not exist)">Michael Henning</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R.Murphy" title="John R. Murphy">John R. Murphy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_R.Purcell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John R. Purcell (page does not exist)">John R. Purcell</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linda_Rice&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Linda Rice (page does not exist)">Linda Rice</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gary_Roubos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gary Roubos (page does not exist)">Gary Roubos</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D._Wren&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John D. Wren (page does not exist)">John D. Wren</a>.</font></p>

<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Lobbying for the Russian government">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Lobbying_for_the_Russian_government">Lobbying for the Russian government</span></font></h2>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Omnicom Group's subsidiary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchum_Inc" title="Ketchum Inc" class="mw-redirect">Ketchum Inc</a> and its subsidiary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPlus_Europe" title="GPlus Europe" class="mw-redirect">GPlus Europe</a> are among the PR agencies used by the Russian government.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup> The Russian government reportedly spends millions on its lobbying efforts. GPlus specializes in recruiting former EU officials and eminent journalists. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gregor_Kreuzhuber&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gregor Kreuzhuber (page does not exist)">Gregor Kreuzhuber</a>, who leads the company's pro-Gazprom operations, was previously European Commission industry spokesman. Peter Witt is a retired German deputy ambassador to the EU who was hired by the company. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angus_Roxburgh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Angus Roxburgh (page does not exist)">Angus Roxburgh</a>, another GPlus worker, covered the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Chechnya" title="War in Chechnya" class="mw-redirect">war in Chechnya</a> for the BBC.<sup id="cite_ref-euobserver2009-02-09_4-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_note-euobserver2009-02-09-4"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup></font></p>

<div class="rellink"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Further information: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector" title="Russia in the European energy sector">Russia in the European energy sector</a></font></div>

<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></font></h2>

<li id="cite_note-Adland-0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_ref-Adland_0-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_ref-Adland_0-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_ref-Adland_0-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_ref-Adland_0-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_ref-Adland_0-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> Mark Tungate. <i>Adland: a global history of advertising</i>. London, Kogan Page Publisher, 2007. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780749448370" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 978-0-7494-4837-0</a>.</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_ref-1">^</a></b> <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1998_Dec_11/ai_53386783" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Omnicom Group Announces Agreement to Acquire Abbott Mead Vickers PLC | Business Wire | Find Articles at BNET.com</a></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_ref-2">^</a></b> <a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-interview-omnicom-digital-ceo-jon-nelson-we-were-a-trendsetter-in-the-a/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Omnicom Digital CEO Jon Nelson: We Were A Trendsetter In The Ad-Shop M&A Game</a></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_ref-3">^</a></b> <a href="http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35351" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Russia's Hired Lobbies in the West</a>. Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 6 Issue: 148. August 3, 2009</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-euobserver2009-02-09-4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom#cite_ref-euobserver2009-02-09_4-0">^</a></b> <a href="http://euobserver.com/9/27567" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Russia hones new image among EU elite</a>. Euobserver 09.02.2009</font></li>

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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></font></h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.omnicomgroup.com/" class="external text" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Official website</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/14/14326.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Yahoo! - Omnicom Group Inc. Company Profile</font></a></li>

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