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Marketing Analysis : Omnicom Group

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a. Company, product, service, leadership, structure
b. Porter’s 5, competitive landscape
c. Key resources that led to creation of competitive advantage

Company background
Omnicom Group is the largest worldwide strategic holding company that provides professional marketing and communication services through 1,500 subsidiary agencies in 100 countries (Omnicom Group website, 2015). The group has dozens of regional and national agencies with operations in the major regions of Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and the Far East. With over 66,000 employees, these agencies provide a broad range of services in four general areas of traditional media advertising, CRM, public relations and communications (Peters, James, 2007). Omnicom has grown to its current size through a series of mergers and acquisitions since the founding of the group over 20 years ago. Three of the largest ad agency networks are under OMC’s holding: BBDO Worldwide, DDB Worldwide and TBWA Worldwide. Two full service media companies are also within the agency’s holdings: OMD Worldwide and PHD Network.
Omnicom operates in a very competitive environment with a number of large companies within the US$ 1 trillion advertising and marketing industry. Classified as an “advertiser,” Omnicom competes with other multinational companies including the WPP Group PLC, Publicis Group SA and the Interpublic Group. Known as ‘the Big Four’, the multinational holding companies have dominated the advertising

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