Holding Co. CEOs (Mostly) Agree on Key Issues

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Dan Wieden must be laughing. Asked today to name an agency outside of their own that they most admire, the CEOs of WPP, Omnicom and Interpublic all pointed to Wieden + Kennedy, an independent that has vowed to never sell to a holding company.

The question arose during an hour-long panel discussion at the 4A’s Transformation 2011 conference in Austin,Texas. Led by Johnson & Johnson’s Brian Perkins, the sit-down represented a rare gathering of three men whose companies collectively generate some $35 billion in revenue annually: WPP’s Martin Sorrell, Omnicom’s John Wren and Interpublic’s Michael Roth.

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