$90 Mil. Toys R Us Looks at 5 Shops

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NEW YORK Five agencies have advanced to the visitation round of Toys R Us’ creative review, sources said.

In the hunt are: Interpublic Group agencies McCann Erickson here and Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos in Boston; Publicis Groupe’s Leo Burnett in Chicago; independent The Richards Group in Dallas; and Omnicom Group’s DDB in Chicago, per sources.

A sixth shop, IPG’s DraftFCB, also was invited to the next round but declined to go forward, said sources.

Executives from Wayne, N.J.-based





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