Omnicom Group

Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) is a leading global advertising and marketing communications services company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to more than 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

John Wren

President and CEO

Past deals in Traditional Marketing

Grizzard Communications Group

Acquisition in 2001
Grizzard Communications Group, Inc. provides direct response marketing and fundraising services for nonprofit organizations in North America. It offers brand-strategy development, multi-channel creative, integrated media programs, digital strategies, planned giving, research and analysis, marketing technologies, database management, production of direct mail pieces, and results analysis. The company also provides call-center, strategic-list management, media buying, and fulfillment services. It also serves rescue missions, food banks, and various animal welfare and humane societies. Grizzard Communications Group, Inc. was founded in 1919 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. The company has additional offices in Houston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Stamford, and Lincoln. As of July 18, 2001, Grizzard Communications Group, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Omnicom Group Inc.

Oliver Schrott Kommunikation

Acquisition in 2021
Oliver Schrott Kommunikation is a leading PR and communication agencies.
IMS is a leading merchandising service agency with a proprietary, fully-integrated retail management system proven to deliver strategic process management to world class clients.

Signature Graphics

Acquisition in 2007
As America's leading producer of fleet media, Signature Graphics has the technology, expertise, and capacity to provide solutions for customers with a range of program requirements. Services we offer include award-winning design, custom manufacturing, warehousing, nationwide installation and removal, and knowledgeable customer service.

Organic

Acquisition in 2002
Organic is one of the first digital marketing agencies, creator of the internet's first banner ads (on HotWired) and original project host for the Apache server mailing list. In 1996, Organic spun off the web analytics startup Accrue. Organic IPO'd in February of 2000 but was later re-privatized in 2001, becoming a subsidiary company of [Omnicom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom_Group).

IPnetwork

Series B in 2000
IPnetwork provides foreign advertising solutions via TV, radio, and internet delivery platforms.

TBWA Group

Acquisition in 1993
TBWA Group is a company that provides advertising services for companies and products.

ASA Holdings

Acquisition in 2007
ASA Holdings operated as the holding company for Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. (ASA) and ASA Investments, Inc., (ASA Investments). ASA operated as a certificated air carrier providing airline service between Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia and 40 other airports in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. ASA also operated airline services between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas and 21 other airports in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. ASA Investments managed cash assets contributed to it by ASA Holdings and its other subsidiary. As of May 11, 1999, ASA Holdings, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines Inc.

Tudhope Associates

Acquisition in 2000
Tudhope Associates is a company that was acquired by Omnicom Group in 2000.

The DDB Mudra Group

Acquisition in 2011
The DDB Mudra Group is the integrated marketing communications group, offers a customized and collaborative approach which helps clients build enduring and profitable brands. We utilize our deep understanding of consumers, brands and media to deliver inventive Brand Solutions through our four agency networks

Jenzabar

Private Equity Round in 2000
Jenzabar provides software, strategies, and services for the administration of higher education institutions. It offers enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, student information systems (SIS), learning management systems (LMS), CRM solutions, internet campus solutions, and analytics. The company offers strategic consulting services, managed services, cloud services, professional implementation services, and client training and support. Jenzabar serves four-year private schools, four-year public schools, two-year institutions, consortia, specialized schools, online institutions, associations and organizations, presidents and chancellors, CIOs, CFOs, CAOs, enrollment officers, retention officers, advancement officers, CE and workforce officers, and students. Jenzabar was founded in 1998 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Unisono Fieldmarketing

Acquisition in 2010
Unisono Fieldmarketing provides outsourced sales and merchandising services, including shopper marketing, channel management and event marketing, to a wide range of multinational and Chinese clients in the consumer, pharmaceutical and IT sectors.

Aaron Walton Entertainment

Acquisition in 2002
Aaron Walton Entertainment (AWE), a Los Angeles-based entertainment marketing agency. Founded in 1988, AWE has established a leadership position in its field. Over the last decade, it has created strategic alliances between the corporate world and the entertainment industry for many of the larger consumer marketing initiatives in this area.

Fleishman-Hillard

Acquisition in 1997
Fleishman-Hillard is global agency that operates as a public relations, public affairs, and marketing communications company. Fleishman-Hillard was founded in 1946 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri with additional offices in North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, South Africa, and Latin America. It is a subsidiary of Omnicom Group Inc.

Shift

Acquisition in 2008
Shift preeminent design studio specializing in web-based communications and multimedia, Shift has a record of developing international award-winning websites. With an array of leading clients and offices in Wellington and Auckland, Shift has a stellar lineup of talent.

Agency.com

Acquisition in 2003
Agency.com is a full-service interactive marketing agency. Its interactive marketing services include marketing strategy, interactive advertising, media planning and buying, search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, viral campaigns and promotion, and analytics and optimization services. The company’s web development services comprise of strategic planning, analytics and customer research, information architecture, web design and development, content management and technology solutions, intranets and portals, and quality assurance services. Agency.com serves the automotive, consumer-packaged goods and retail, energy and utilities, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, non-profit, professional services, publishing and media, technology, telecommunications, travel, and entertainment sectors. Agency.com has additional offices in San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; Dublin, Ireland; London, United Kingdom; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Shanghai, China; Rome and Milan, Italy; and Brussels, Belgium.

Serino Coyne

Acquisition in 2003
Serino Coyne is a theatrical advertising agency. The company's clients include Walt Disney Theatrical Productions, The Shubert Organization, Cameron Mackintosh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, AT&T's Corporate Arts Underwriting, American Express Gold Card Events, and Clear Channel Entertainment and Bloomberg News Radio. Serino Coyne has conducted Aida, Hairspray, Mamma Mia!, The Graduate, Flower Drum Song, The Metamorphoses, Oklahoma, The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Lion King broadway shows. The company is headquartered in New York. As of 2003, Serino Coyne, Inc. was a subsidiaryof Omnicom Group Inc. Serino Coyne, Inc. now operates as a subsidiary of Diversified Agency Services, which is a part of Omnicom Group Inc.

Credera

Acquisition in 2018
Credera is a business and technology consulting firm that provides management consulting, technology solutions, and business intelligence services. It works with Fortune 1,000 companies, medium-sized businesses, government organizations, and clients across a broad range of industries. The company is focused on delivering its services in 3 key areas: management consulting to develop business-driven IT strategies, improve the performance of a client's IT organization, design improved business processes, assist with software selection, and provide e-commerce advisory services; technology solutions that focus on delivering complete and complex solutions from requirements analysis through post-production support; and business intelligence solutions that enable the transformation of raw data into actionable information to produce measurable results. Credera was founded in 1999 and is based in Addison, Texas.

Schechter Group

Acquisition in 1988
Schechter Group, a New York design consultant. Schechter, which has done package design and corporate and brand identity work for companies like the Noxell Corporation and RJR Nabisco Inc., fills a void at Diversified. ''We don't have a design firm of this stripe,'' said Stuart Q. Hyatt, an Omnicom spokesman.

ZERO.NET

Venture Round in 2000
ZERO.NET operates a leading edge technology cortal TM (corporate portal) enterprise with investments in over 25 Business-to-Business Internet companies worldwide. Our global economic networks of technology-centric Internet companies are the current and future building blocks of the new economy. ZERO.NET enables the eBusinesses of the emerging Internet economy. We invest for the long-term, recognizing value and building trust and respect with our partners. Every investment we make gains immediate and significant value through inclusion in the ZERO.NET cortal--the ZERO.NET cortal benefits immediately from the addition of each investment. ZERO.NET's cortal serves as a launching platform for Internet companies, providing a full range of operational and management services to help facilitate success and growth. Our cortal provides access to a support team of experienced professionals in the areas of operations, business development, recruitment, finance, legal affairs, and more.

Changing Our World

Acquisition in 2002
Changing Our World is the trusted philanthropy and fundraising consulting firm to the world's leading nonprofit organizations, corporations, private foundations, and philanthropists. We provide expertise and individualized solutions, helping nonprofits create strong relationships with donors and enabling grant makers and corporations to invest their resources wisely.

Arnell Group

Acquisition in 2001
Arnell Group LLC provides communications, design, and brand creation services. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in New York, New York. Arnell Group LLC operates as a subsidiary of Omnicom Group Inc.

Marina Maher Communications

Acquisition in 2011
Marina Maher Communications (MMC) is the preeminent expert in marketing to women. The agency uses proprietary, data-driven methodology to develop fresh insights about women and leverages our deep relationships with influencers to motivate women to act. Based in New York, MMC creates award-winning communications programs for consumer, health and well-being and food and beverage companies.

Nuforia

Venture Round in 2000
Nuforia is an Internet professional services company resulting from the 1999 merger of communications.

Post Communications

Venture Round in 2000
Post Communications provides customized email marketing services. It is a marketing company that engages in the design, development, implementation, and operations of internet marketing solutions. It offers its users with a wide range of promotional campaigns. Post Communications was founded in 1996 and it was acquired by Yesmail on December 5, 2001.

Rodgers Townsend

Acquisition in 2006
Rodgers Townsend provides advertising, direct marketing, strategic and media planning, interactive marketing, and design services to a wide range of clients both locally and nationally. Rodgers Townsend currently serves clients such as AT&T, Energizer, The Hartford, Maritz, Monsanto, Ameren, Pleats, the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission, St. Louis Children's Hospital and the St. Louis Rams.

Cone

Acquisition in 1999
Cone is a public relations and marketing agency that helps its clients achieve both business and societal outcomes. The company is focused on many key areas such as consumer product media relations, social media, cause branding and marketing, corporate responsibility, non-profit marketing, corporate communications, and crisis prevention or management. It provides its services to the agribusiness, arts, financial, chemical, construction, and real estate sectors. Founded in 1980, Cone is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

180 Amsterdam

Acquisition in 2006
180 Amsterdam the most awarded independent agencies.

Abbott Mead Vickers Group Ltd.

Acquisition in 1999
Abbott Mead Vickers is the provider of marketing, advertising, and corporate communications services.

EVB

Acquisition in 2006
EVB is a full-service advertising agency specializing in high-end interactive marketing. EVB continued to build on its reputation as a creator of strategic brand experiences that combine entertainment and interactivity.

Sales Power

Acquisition in 2010
Sales Power is the service Unilever China's in-store promotional needs in South China.

Rabin Martin

Acquisition in 2016
Rabin Martin is a global health strategy firm driven by the mission to improve the health and lives of underserved.

Stratcom Communique

Acquisition in 2001
Stratcom Communique is a company that was acquired by Omnicom Group in 2001.