MDC's Nadal Uses Bigger Rivals as Foil

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Don’t call Miles Nadal an acquirer. Rather, the CEO of MDC Partners sees himself as a strategic partner to the agencies he buys.

Nadal stressed that point on Wednesday (March 9) during an interview with The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin at the 4A’s Transformation 2011 conference in Austin, Texas. Largely, the head of one of the smaller ad holding companies used his half-hour with Sorkin to distance himself from the CEOs of industry giants WPP Group, Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group, who had just left the stage.

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