Pleon (company)

Pleon
Subsidiary of BBDO, Subsidiary of Omnicom Group
Industry Public Relations, Marketing
Founded 2004
Headquarters Düsseldorf
Number of locations
 43 offices in 26 countries - EMEA
Area served
 World Wide
Key people
 Timo Sieg
Number of employees
 1,200 employees
Website http://www.pleon.com

Pleon is a Europe based Public Relations and communications consultancy. It is part of the Brodeur Pleon Worldwide network and a subsidiary of BBDO Worldwide. Pleon belongs to the Omnicom Group. Pleon is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Overview

The majority of Pleon's offices are located in EMEA. Pleon was formed from the merger of two companies within the Omnicom group, ECC Kohtes Klewes and Brodeur Worldwide in 2004. Pleon is majority-owned by BBDO Europe, one of the world's biggest advertising groups. BBDO is part of the NYSE-listed company Omnicom Group Incorporated; hence Pleon through BBDO is part of Omnicom.

Pleon employs 1.200 employees in 33 branded and 10 associated offices in 26 EMEA (European, Middle East and African) countries.

Executives and Senior Partners

Current CEO(s) of Pleon:

Functional Practice Leaders at Pleon:

Industry Practice Leaders at Pleon:

Pleon's Healthcare and Public Affairs practise employs the former federal minister respectively minister of state Andrea Fischer and Detlev Samland.

Awards

In 2006 Pleon received the Gold Award for "PR-Agency of the Year" from PR Report.

The international industry journal "The Holmes Report" elected Pleon to be "Best German PR-Agency 2005" and "European Communications Consultancy 2007" and it is recently named “Best Public Relations Agency” in The 2008 International Business Awards / Stevie Award.


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