Omnicom PR revenues climb 3.3%

Daniel Farey-Jones, prweek.com, Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 6:06pm,

Omnicom has reported 3.3% annual organic growth for its PR operations to $1.29bn (£824m) in 2012.

John Wren: Omnicom chief executive

Including the impact of foreign exchange and acquisitions/disposals, growth in its public relations revenues was 4.9%.

Omnicom is headquartered in the US and owns agency networks Ketchum, Fleishman-Hillard and Porter Novelli.

Its PR operations had a particularly good fourth quarter, growing 8.4% year on year on an organic basis to $348m.

Public relations accounted for 9.1% of its overall 2012 revenues of $14.2bn.