| 2000 | |
| • | Ogilvy PRopens Hyderabad, India and Colombo, Sri Lanka offices. |
| • | O&MFocus in Prague, Czech Republic changes its name to Ogilvy PR. |
| • | Ogilvy PRcreates the Merck Fosamax "Stay Strong! Test Your Bone Strength" campaign and reaches 90M readers via a Debbie Reynolds' letter published in Ann Landers' column. |
| • | Ogilvy PRwins AsiaPRNews Anvil Award for Mead Johnson's dioxin-scare campaign. |
| • | B|W|Rclient Hilary Swank wins the Best Actress Oscar at the 1999 Academy Awards for her performance in the film Boys Don't Cry, and thanks her publicist (our colleague) Troy Nankin on the live broadcast. |
| • | Ogilvy PRleads WebMethods' IPO to the fourth-largest gain of share price in recorded stock market history. |
| • | Ogilvy PRwins six CIPRAs, unsurpassed by any other agency and PR Week's Minority Campaign of the Year Award for "The ConPact. Pretty. Smart. Protection." |
| • | FKHleads best-attended BIOTECH WORKS 2000 meeting with speakers U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), Fidelity's Peter Lynch and an appearance by actor Christopher Reeve. |
| • | Four WPP companies, five Ogilvy PR practices and two outside niche firmswork together to launch Amoco, Arco, British Petroleum and Castrol's new global brand, BP p.l.c. |
| • | Ogilvy PRhelps Wingspan convince consumers of the benefits of online banking and bill payment. To target women, Ogilvy PR develops the "Female Finance Factor." |
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Three covers for three clients in three weeks.B|W|Rputs Michael J. Fox on the cover of Newsweek, Dana Carvey on People and Renee Zellweger on Vanity Fair. |
