Filling in for the indomitable Stuart Elliott on The New York Times ad beat, consumer products reporter Melanie Warner, who made a name for herself at Fortune magazine, reports on the continuing woes of the world’s third largest ad/marketing conglomerate Interpublic Group. Unfortunately and erroneously, she listed as part of Interpublic’s holdings IPG’s main competitors’ Omnicom and WPP, the industry’s number one and two conglomerates.
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Let’s see how long it takes for this to be corrected on The Times’s website.