Four Finalists Vie for $100 Mil. Aventis Drug

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NEW YORK Four finalists will make presentations on Monday and Tuesday in a review for Lantus, a diabetes drug from Aventis Pharmaceuticals, sources said.

Billings on the global account, which includes both creative and media duties, have not been determined. Sources, however, pegged them at $100 million.
The presentations will take place at the client’s U.S. headquarters in Bridgewater, N.J. The finalists include Interpublic Group’s McCann-Erickson, Omnicom Group’s TBWA Worldwide and the WPP Group team of Young & Rubicam, Burson-Marsteller and Mediaedge:cia, said sources.


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