World's top 100 ad organizations Dollars are in millions.
Rank 2000	Rank 1999	Company	Headquarters	Worldwide gross income 2000	'00-'99 % chg	Worldwide billings 2000
1	1	WPP Group	London	$7,971.0	19.9	$67,225.0
2	2	Omnicom Group	New York	6,986.2	11.9	55,651.6
3	3	Interpublic Group of Cos.	New York	6,595.9	16.9	54,828.2
4	5	Dentsu	Tokyo	3,089.0	22.2	21,689.1
5	4	Havas Advertising	Levallois-Perret, France	2,757.3	7.8	26,345.5
6	6	Publicis Groupe	Paris	2,479.1	7.8	29,302.7
7	7	Bcom3 Group	Chicago	2,215.9	16.0	17,932.6
8	8	Grey Global Group	New York	1,863.2	18.7	11,406.3
9	9	True North Communications	Chicago	1,539.1	11.6	13,171.7
10	10	Cordiant Communications Group	London	1,254.8	16.5	11,256.0
11	11	Hakuhodo	Tokyo	1,008.7	21.8	7,640.0
12	13	Asatsu-DK	Tokyo	431.4	19.4	3,740.1
13	12	Carlson Marketing Group	Minneapolis	390.2	7.4	2,977.3
14	14	TMP Worldwide	New York	332.1	9.1	3,386.5
15	19	Digitas	Boston	288.2	54.1	NA
16	16	Aspen Marketing Group	Los Angeles	256.2	13.7	1,709.1
17	17	Tokyu Agency	Tokyo	235.4	16.7	2,041.4
18	15	Ha-Lo Industries	Niles, Ill.	233.1	-7.1	973.6
19	18	Daiko Advertising	Tokyo	226.0	14.1	1,719.0
20	20	Incepta Group	London	217.5	42.5	655.4
21	21	Maxxcom	Toronto	177.4	18.3	1,109.1
22	22	Cheil Communications	Seoul	150.4	15.1	949.3
23	25	I&S/BBDO	Tokyo	118.0	11.3	967.0
24	29	Panoramic Communications	New York	116.0	17.1	1,315.0
25	24	SPAR Group	Tarrytown, N.Y.	111.0	-4.7	740.4
26	27	Yomiko Advertising	Tokyo	110.8	8.6	1,097.2
27	28	Doner	Southfield, Mich.	109.8	9.8	968.0
28	26	Clemenger Group	Melbourne, Australia	101.8	-0.6	679.2
29	31	Asahi Advertising	Tokyo	98.0	20.4	642.0
30	30	Harte-Hanks	Langhorne, Pa.	97.2	2.2	417.1
31	44	Hawkeye Communications	New York	93.6	58.3	624.3
32	23	Simon Marketing*	Gloucester, Mass.	92.0	-28.3	NA
33	32	HMG Worldwide*	New York	90.4	12.9	600.7
34	33	Rubin Postaer & Associates	Santa Monica, Calif.	87.1	24.1	826.2
35	34	Richards Group	Dallas	83.5	21.0	560.0
36	39	Nikkeisha	Tokyo	80.7	26.2	511.7
37	43	LG Ad	Seoul	78.2	32.1	597.5
38	42	Bartle Bogle Hegarty	London	77.8	24.1	608.4
39	37	Gage	Minneapolis	76.8	15.8	512.4
40	NA	AKQA	New York	76.0	NA	NA
41	40	Cossette Communication Group	Quebec	74.3	17.5	496.6
42	35	Marketing Services Group	New York	73.4	6.6	194.7
43	38	Cramer-Krasselt	Chicago	70.6	10.3	466.2
44	41	Wolf Group Integrated Communications	Toronto	67.7	7.7	590.5
45	47	Armando Testa Group	Turin, Italy	67.0	19.1	731.0
46	51	M&C Saatchi Worldwide	London	64.4	31.2	615.7
47	46	Sogei	Tokyo	61.8	7.2	483.7
48	45	Wieden & Kennedy	Portland, Ore.	60.1	3.2	863.2
49	60	ChoicePoint Direct	Peoria, Ill.	59.2	53.1	392.7
50	85	Talent Comunicacao	Sao Paulo	59.1	119.6	243.0
51	36	Springer & Jacoby	Hamburg, Germany	58.9	-13.2	392.9
52	50	Oricom Co.	Tokyo	57.6	15.2	526.7
53	65	Gerbig Snell/Weisheimer & Assoc.	Westerville, Ohio	57.0	12.3	462.5
54	48	BBDO Nederland	Amstelveen, Netherlands	55.5	-0.5	369.1
55	57	Ryan Partnership	Westport, Conn.	55.3	24.8	NA
56	55	Nihon Keizai Advertising	Tokyo	54.1	20.9	429.3
57	54	MARC USA	Pittsburgh	50.7	10.9	683.6
58	52	Singleton O&M Advertising	Sydney	50.5	6.1	380.4
59	53	Meridian	Troy, Mich.	49.1	4.4	324.3
60	56	DPZ Duailibi Petit Zaragoza	Sao Paulo	48.9	9.6	241.4
61	61	Cliff Freeman & Partners	New York	45.0	20.0	450.0
62	68	Data Marketing	San Jose, Calif.	44.2	24.9	81.0
63	49	Fischer America Comunicacao	Sao Paulo	43.0	-14.0	270.9
63	64	Leagas Delaney	London	43.0	16.2	279.7
65	58	WestWayne	Atlanta	42.4	5.1	361.9
66	59	Bernstein Rein Advertising	Kansas City, Mo.	42.0	4.8	372.5
66	71	Euro RSCG Brasil	Sao Paulo	42.0	22.9	280.2
68	63	ServicePlan Marketing	Munich	41.9	12.7	279.2
69	75	Flair Communications	Chicago	41.0	25.2	295.5
69	62	Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners*	New York	41.0	10.0	451.2
71	78	Don Coleman	Southfield, Mich.	40.5	33.7	270.0
72	67	A-S Grey	Helsinki	40.0	12.7	265.0
73	83	Envoy Communications	Toronto	39.6	41.1	264.1
74	73	DVC Group	Morristown, N.J.	38.5	15.2	283.0
75	69	Fortune Promoseven Group	Manama, Bahrain	37.5	8.0	299.7
76	72	Brierley & Partners	Dallas	37.1	9.1	282.8
77	74	Kyodo Advertising Co.*	Tokyo	36.4	10.0	296.1
78	66	Berry Network	Dayton, Ohio	36.2	1.0	157.9
79	88	Propeg	Sao Paulo	35.5	36.5	153.0
80	76	HMS Hallmark	Columbus, Ohio	35.4	9.1	328.1
81	84	Abelson-Taylor	Chicago	35.0	27.0	259.3
82	92	Daehong Communications	Seoul	34.9	39.4	282.9
83	96	Ackerman McQueen	Oklahoma City	34.5	58.4	254.0
84	81	Lowe Lintas & Partners India	Mumbai, India	34.2	21.4	228.3
85	87	Clear Ink Corp.	Walnut Creek, Calif.	34.1	28.3	155.8
86	77	QLM Marketing	Princeton, N.J.	33.0	8.9	207.3
87	79	BVK/McDonald	Milwaukee	30.8	3.8	206.1
88	99	Barkley Evergreen & Partners	Kansas City, Mo.	29.0	40.8	338.3
89	80	HealthAnswers	Pennington, N.J.	28.3	0.3	186.5
90	NA	Grafica Group	Chester, N.J.	27.6	80.6	106.0
91	82	O&M Rightford Searle-Tripp & Makin	Johannesburg	27.5	-2.1	160.7
92	97	Zipatoni Co.	St. Louis	27.3	26.7	183.7
93	70	Valentine Radford	Kansas City, Mo.	26.6	-22.7	166.2
94	94	McKinney & Silver	Raleigh, N.C.	26.2	16.4	483.6
95	89	Keller Crescent Co.	Evansville, Ind.	25.7	-0.5	141.8
96	95	UniWorld Group	New York	25.6	16.2	245.8
97	91	W/Brasil Publicidade	Sao Paulo	24.9	-0.7	144.5
98	100	Mars Advertising	Southfield, Mich.	24.1	19.4	162.6
99	98	Eisner Communications	Baltimore	23.9	12.3	212.0
100	93	Burrell Communications Group	Chicago	23.9	4.5	174.4
Notes: Figures are U.S. dollars in millions. *Indicates AA estimates. Organizations in all marketing-related agency disciplines except interactive qualify for ranking, as do minority-held businesses of other ranked organizations. See parent profiles beginning on this page. Interactive agencies will be ranked in the May 7 issue of AA. 1999 rankings based on figures reported in 2001.

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