Shops Pitch for New Drug Account

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Four New York-based agencies are vying for creative and media duties on a new cholesterol drug from Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough, sources said.

The agencies are DDB, Grey Worldwide, Young & Rubicam and Robert A. Becker/Euro RSCG, according to sources. Becker specializes in pharmaceutical and health-care advertising.

Each shop has been asked to develop positioning and creative ideas. In addition, the client asked the participants to draw up a budget for the new, as yet-unnamed brand, sources said.



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