McGarryBowen

McGarryBowen is an advertising agency founded in 2002. Up until 2008 it was ranked as the largest independent advertising agency in New York and 11th in the U.S. (as ranked by AdAge 2005). McGarryBowen was founded by John McGarry, former President of Young & Rubicam and who, up until 2008 held roughly 90% of the company, Stewart Owen, former Chief Strategic Officer of Young & Rubicam, and Gordon Bowen, a former Executive Creative Director at Young & Rubicam and Ogilvy & Mather. McGarryBowen has offices in New York and Chicago (opened Dec 2007).

McGarryBowen's clients include Marriott International, J. P. Morgan, Hewlett-Packard, Chevron, Crayola, Kraft Foods, Chase, The Wall Street Journal, Disney, Inbev, Century 21, Verizon Wireless, Burger King, Sears and Learning Leaders.

Following both agencies' acquisition by Dentsu, McGarryBowen became a sibling agency to 360i.^[1][2]

McGarryBowen was named as Advertising Age's Agency of the Year for 2009. ^[3]

McGarryBowen is No. 2 on Advertising Age's Agency A List for 2010. ^[4]

Principals

• John McGarry, Chief Executive Officer
• Gordon Bowen, Chief Creative Officer
• Stewart Owen, Chief Strategic Officer

References

1. ^ "Dentsu Holdings USA, Inc. to Acquire McGarry Bowen, LLC of the United States". Dentsu. 2008-10-01. http://www.dentsu.com/news/2008/20081001112.html. Retrieved 2010-05-24. 
2. ^ Patel, Kunur (2010-01-25). "Dentsu Acquires 360i, Taking a Big Digital Shop off the Table". Advertising Age. http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=141743. Retrieved 2010-05-24. 
3. ^ Parekh, Rupal (2010-01-25). "McGarryBowen Is Ad Age's Agency of the Year". Advertising Age. http://adage.com/agencya-list09/article?article_id=141664. Retrieved 2010-12-02. 
4. ^ Creamer, Matthew (2011-01-24). "McGarryBowen Is No. 2 on the Ad Age Agency A-List". Advertising Age. http://adage.com/agencya-list/article?article_id=148361. 

External links

• Official web site
• Forbes: "The Men in the Gray Flannel Suits"
• "New kids on the block Chicago Sun-Times "