Omnicom PR revenues slump
10 Feb 2009 | by Arun Sudhaman
Omnicom Group, which owns Fleishman-Hillard, Ketchum, Porter Novelli and Gavin Anderson, has reported a decrease in PR revenues of more than 10 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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