McGarryBowen
American advertising agency
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mcgarrybowen is an advertising agency founded in 2002 by John McGarry, former president of Young & Rubicam, Stewart Owen, former chief strategic officer of Young & Rubicam, and Gordon Bowen, a former executive creative director at Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam and who together until 2008 held roughly 90% of the company. mcgarrybowen was acquired for an undisclosed amount by Dentsu in 2008.[1]
New York, New York, United States
| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Advertising Agency |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Starrett-Lehigh Building New York, New York, United States |
Key people | Gordon Bowen, Founder and Chairman |
| Parent | Dentsu |
| Website | www |
mcgarrybowen ranked as the largest independent advertising agency in New York and 11th in the U.S., as ranked by AdAge 2005.[2] Following both agencies' acquisition by Dentsu in 2008,[3] mcgarrybowen became a sibling agency to 360i.[4] mcgarrybowen was named as AdAge's Agency of the Year in 2009,[5] and 2011,[6] as well as the No. 2 agency on AdAge's Agency A List for 2010.[7]
mcgarrybowen opened their first international office in London in April 2012, following a merger with sister agency Dentsu London,[8] and almost immediately won the £25 million European launch campaign for Honda's fourth-generation CR-V.[9]
Principals
As of January 2020[update], the principals are:
- Gordon Bowen, Founder and Global Chairman
- Jon Dupuis, Global President
- Ida Rezvani, President, NYC
- Ryan Lindholm, President, San Francisco
- Laurel Stack Flatt, President, Chicago