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Nonprofit joins tenants in the Daily News' old home

SL Green’s 220 E. 42nd St., the landmarked tower that once was home to the Daily News, has major tenants including Omnicom and WPIX. A new tenant, the nonprofit Young...

Omnicon pitches AT&T at swanky Eden Roc Grill

CANNES — Omnicom Chief Executive John Wren had some pretty special dinner guests at the Hotel du Cap’s famous Eden Roc Grill on Sunday night: top executives from AT&T. At...

Advertising exec made AIDS joke to HIV-positive worker: suit

A supervisor at the $20 billion advertising giant Omnicom didn’t discriminate when it came to harassing his employees — ridiculing a gay man for being HIV positive, sending a straight...

Advertisers probe agencies over kickbacks, backroom deals

It’s a nightmare on Madison Avenue. The world’s biggest advertisers have launched a wide-ranging inquiry into whether ad agencies are cheating them on fees through backroom wheeling-and-dealing. The Association of...

Ad business a vastly different beast today: Omnicom CFO

How much has the advertising business changed? To hear Omnicom CFO Randall Weisenburger tell it, 50 percent in five years. Weisenburger, who made the assessment at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia conference,...

Omnicom, Publicis call off proposed $35 billion merger

The proposed $35 billion merger between Omnicom Group Inc, the No. 1 U.S. advertising company, and French rival Publicis Groupe SA has been called off, the New York Times reported...