Advertising Agency Profile

JWT was founded in 1864 by William James Carlton it was then purchased in 1878 by James Walter Thompson and renamed The James Walter Thompson Company. The company was then acquired by WPP Group in 1987. WPP is a British multinational advertising and public relations company. It is also a Public Limited Company (PLC) which allows people from the public to buy shares of the company. In 2005 the name was shortened to JWT.
JWT has 200 offices in 90 countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and has around 10,000 employees. None of there departments work on a specific advertising campaign but they do share advertisement campaigns over offices in different countries like the UK and Germany offices for the KitKat Android campaign.
JWT advertisements clients range from all different companies and products. JWT clients include various companies from food, car, phone, banks and many more,  JWT also advertise similar products that they have done before with some of them being rival companies for example Kellogg's and Nestle. JWT is a big established advertising agency with offices located all over the world meaning they can cover all types of advertisements and languages and it makes it a lot easier to get and make a global campaign. With JWT's main office being in New York the main and local competitor is BBDO, BBDO covers advertisement but more so in video and TV adverts.