Omnicom, the global marketing services conglomerate, has announced the expansion of its Global Solutions Centres of Excellence with the opening of three new campus locations in Bengaluru, Chennai, and Gurugram. A fourth location will be opened in Hyderabad in October.
Notes a communique: “Designed to accommodate Omnicom’s expanding footprint and global client solutions capabilities, these centers of excellence will house a diverse talent pool of over 5,500 colleagues. The newly built, state-of-the-art offices will provide best-in-class collaborative environments for Omnicom’s talent in India. Through their expertise in media, data and analytics, creative, digital commerce, marketing technology, and AI, Omnicom’s Global Solutions Centres will support our agencies around the world, driving more value and efficiencies for our clients.”
Said John Wren, Chairman and CEO, Omnicom: “India is a country of creativity and technology with diverse, dynamic and talented people… Our India operations are helping us transform from within, improving our client offerings and providing operating efficiencies. We are rapidly scaling and will continue to increase the number of colleagues in Omnicom’s Global Solutions Centres over the next few years, making them a key component of Omnicom’s growth.”
Interestingly, the communique was emailed to us by Value360, an independent communications agency which has been rising in business and stature in recent years. Note: not FleishmanHillard or the soon-rumoured-to-shutter (but yet in existence) KetchumSampark that are part of Omnicom’s Communications Consultancy Network that in turn runs the Omnicom Public Relations Group. And not even some of the others in the group who frequently disseminate news and info to the media.
We don’t whether we should read more into this engagement of Value360 for an Omnicom release, but we’ll leave that to speculation and announcements, if at all.