IPG Reports Surprisingly Strong Performance for 2018 Despite Late-Year Account Losses

Michael Roth attributes 5.5 percent organic growth to agency wins

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Interpublic Group CEO Michael Roth said he is “very pleased” with the company’s “outstanding” performance for both the fourth quarter of 2018 and the year as a whole in this morning’s quarterly earnings call. The holding group seemed to buck industry trends with 5.5 percent organic net revenue growth for the year, exceeding its own 4.5 percent target.

IPG’s 7.1 percent global fourth-quarter organic revenue growth was also considerably higher than that of competitors Omnicom (3.2 percent) and Publicis (negative 0.3

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