with marketing services group Interpublic as a key investor. The business expanded rapidly in 1996 in line with the development of the internet and in 1997, CKS established a German base with the acquisition

altered as a result of the acquisition of True North by Interpublic, who began restructuring several of its newly acquired majority-owned agencies. Siboney's Los Angeles and Dallas offices were sold to

he gave up in 1959, and eventually left Interpublic in 1964 following publication of a ground-breaking report which confirmed the damaging effects of smoking on health. Foote declared that he would no

had previously been handled by the Chicago office of Interpublic's FCB, but the $350m account was pulled in 2001 after Quaker was acquired by Pepsi. (Arch-rival Coca-Cola had close ties with FCB's sister

headquartered in Minneapolis and sitting loosely within the Interpublic portfolio. Campbell Mithun had a long and storied background, but new business performance had been worryingly patchy in recent

now widely understood to be finalising a deal with Interpublic. But behind the scenes, potential conflicts had developed between key D'Arcy client Mars and its arch-rival Nestle, a client of Interpublic'

stake in his agency in early 2000 to Interpublic's Draft, becoming AG Worldwide. A year later Arnell bought back the shares and then sold on the whole business on to Omnicom. For years, Peter Arnell

was the second global advertising network within Interpublic, until being merged with stablemate Lowe & Partners to form Lowe Lintas & Partners. APL had itself been created from the combination in 1994

brothers in the 1980s was sold to a combination of Interpublic and its management team. The continental European offices were closed and UK outpost KHBB was briefly re-established as a standalone unit

established London agency which had ended up as part of the Interpublic Group, sitting in the shadow of the much larger McCann-Erickson. By the mid-1960s, after several years of rapid expansion, Interpublic