Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG)

Profile

Exchange: NYSE       Sector: Services       Industry: Advertising Agencies

The Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. (IPG) was incorporated in Delaware in September 1930 under the name of McCann-Erickson Incorporated, as the successor to the advertising agency businesses founded in 1902 by A.W. Erickson and in 1911 by Harrison K. McCann. The company has operated under the Interpublic name since January 1961. IPG's agencies deliver services across the full spectrum of marketing disciplines and specialties, including advertising, direct marketing, media buying and planning, public relations, events marketing, Internet and search engine marketing, social media marketing and mobile marketing. The company also sets company-wide financial objectives and corporate strategy, directs collaborative inter-agency programs, establishes financial management and operational controls, guides personnel policy, conducts investor relations and oversees mergers and acquisitions. The company's current chairman and CEO is Michael I. Roth. The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. is based in New York, New York.