In 1997, the agency triumphed against Interpublic to pick up a pan-Euro account for auto manufacturer Vauxhall, suddenly becoming one of London's most feted shops. Wooed by several of the big marketing

team was later reported to be negotiating to join Interpublic, heightening speculation that the food company's business could at some point follow them. However an emergency consultation with General

the Interpublic-owned Lowe & Partners network. Within a matter of weeks, the new agency had poached Lowe London's flagship client, supermarket giant Tesco. Although Lowe himself later retired from the

steps towards creating a media-negotiating giant like Interpublic's Magna Global and WPP's Group M in May 2004 when it pooled the UK media negotiation for OMD, Manning Gottlieb OMD and PHD in new unit

It was all change again in 2010, when Interpublic agreed to acquire DLKW from Creston and merge it with Lowe London. However, only a little of DLKW's magic rubbed off on Lowe, and after a brief honeymoon

because of an increased management service fee to Interpublic, "a substantial investment in on-boarding of resources" to support new client gains, and also increases in pension contributions and provisions

global advertising networks within marketing giant Interpublic. Lowe has been the subject of a string of restructurings in recent years in an attempt to bolster chronically patchy performance. Despite

Two years later, Shandwick was acquired by Interpublic for £101m (becoming Weber Shadwick). Chadlington stayed with his creation for two more years before quitting the group in early 2000. A few months

FCB Inferno is the UK outpost of Interpublic's FCB network, formed from the merger of the struggling London office of what was then Draftfcb with independent agency Inferno. That led to a dramatic turnaround

Interpublic took the opportunity to acquire most of these, taking an 18% stake in Daiko, which became the Japanese affiliate of the Lowe & Partners Worldwide network. In return, Daiko gets access to Lowe'