Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) revenue declined 3% year over year with a 15.8% operating margin.
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In this instance, it is blending the Personal Systems Group (PSG) with the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG).
Interpublic Group (IPG) reports its third quarter earnings on Friday, October 26, 2012.
But IPG's retail lab offers a window into what the future could hold.
McCann Worldgroup (also part of IPG) did the advertising that broke this week.
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Bozell was independent until 1997, when it was acquired by True North, which was later bought up by IPG.
Interpublic (nyse: IPG - news - people ) posted a quarterly net loss because of higher severance costs.
For example, Oxford, Mass. used tax breaks to lure IPG Photonics (IPGP).
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According to IPG Media Lab, 74 percent of shoppers say the package is a critical element to making a final product selection.
Thus if some other community offers IPG Photonics a better tax deal, it could move and take away all the jobs it has created.
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The mingling of the PSG and IPG assets is a redux, mirroring the same strategic maneuver executed by Carly Fiorina in 2005 for somewhat similar reasons, but with the opposite structure.
As Cordarounds gained traction, global advertising agency Foot Cone Belding, a unit of Interpublic (nyse: IPG - news - people ), offered the company a slew of services pro bono.
During my 45-minute chat with him, which took place under the observation of a number of his minions, he explained why IPG not only remains relevant but is actually moving into exciting new areas.
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Among them are example of businesses that were once garage start-ups ( Masimo, No. 98), former mom-and-pop shops ( Gordmans Stores, No. 29), and businesses that immigrated to the United States ( IPG Photonics, No. 11).
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Interpublic Group (nyse: IPG - news - people ), which owns two of the agencies that pitched Virgin Atlantic , has laid off 10, 000 employees (some related to mergers) and shuttered 50 offices around the world since 2001.
Media services firm MagnaGlobal, a division of advertising and marketing giant Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), recently lowered its 2012 forecast for total ad spending growth to 2.9 percent from 4.8 percent, pointing to a slowdown in manufacturing, consumer spending and ongoing problems in the labor and housing markets.
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