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About Omnicom Group Inc.

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

Omnicom Group’s worldwide revenue for 2005 increased 7.5% to $US 10,481 million. Omnicom Group employs more than 60,000 professionals worldwide.

Omnicom Group includes three of the top 10 global advertising brands, BBDO Worldwide, DDB Worldwide and TBWA/Worldwide, as well as a stable of strong performing U.S. advertisers. Within the Omnicom Media Group, media services include OMD Worldwide, one of the largest media specialist companies in the world, and PHD, which last year announced the expansion of its network across Asia Pacific.

Omnicom’s holdings in a variety of marketing disciplines including customer relationship management, public relations and specialty communications are grouped together under Diversified Agency Services (DAS), and include more than 160 companies that operate through a combination of networks and regional organizations. They serve international and local clients through more than 700 offices in 71 countries.

DAS encompasses companies across a range of marketing and communications disciplines, many of which are best in class in their chosen field, such as the leading global direct marketing company Rapp Collins Worldwide, and Interbrand, one of the world’s leading consultancies in brand strategy, valuation and naming.

DAS also includes three of the top seven public relations firms in the world, Fleishman-Hillard, Ketchum, and Porter Novelli, as well as specialist agencies including Brodeur Worldwide and Gavin Anderson & Company. DAS has built the most influential global healthcare communications practice, represented in Asia by Targis. DAS also includes Bernard Hodes Group, the recruitment communications specialists, and Doremus, the corporate and financial advertising agency.

Omnicom agency brands are consistently acknowledged as being among the world’s best creative agencies. TBWA Worldwide, BBDO Worldwide and DDB Worldwide were rated as the most awarded agency networks in the world for 2005 by The Gunn Report for the second year in a row. TBWA Worldwide was named the Most Awarded Agency Network for 2005 in The Gunn Report. TBWA was also Media Magazine’s 2005 Asian Agency of the year for the second year running. DDB Worldwide for the second year in a row was named Global Agency Network of the Year by Adweek and was named the Most Awarded Agency Network for 2004 by The Gunn Report. In 2006, BBDO was named 2005 U.S. Agency of the Year by Advertising Age, Global Agency of the Year by Adweek magazine, and Advertising Network of the Year by Campaign.

In media services, OMD was named 2005 Global Media Network of the Year by Adweek and Campaign and U.S. Agency of the Year by Advertising Age.