IPG
The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc.
IPG operates three sister PR agencies in the Gulf — Weber Shandwick, Golin and Current Global — with deliberately differentiated positioning across the group. The three brands have historically been managed as distinct propositions: Weber Shandwick on integrated corporate and consumer work, Golin on a more creatively-led consumer practice, Current Global on global communications mandates with regional execution.
The dominant fact about IPG today is not its agency mix. It is its parent. Omnicom announced its acquisition of IPG on December 9, 2024 and closed the transaction on November 26, 2025. IPG no longer exists as an independent holding company. This profile documents the IPG-era regional structure that the three agencies still operate inside while integration with Omnicom's Gulf operations is worked through.
How the combined group restructures regionally — whether IPG's three Gulf brands are kept distinct, consolidated, or folded into Omnicom's existing FleishmanHillard and Ketchum operations — is the open question that will define the post-merger map.
Regional leadership at the holding-company level is not consistently publicly documented for IPG. Agency-level leadership is on individual agency profiles.
Holding-company structural changes combined with agency-level moves under this parent. Sorted most recent first.
- 1 Apr 2026LeadershipCurrent Global — Hire
Jacquelyn Moulds appointed Director for Client Experiences, bringing nearly two decades of integrated communications and agency leadership.
Source ↗ - 2025MergerOmnicom completes acquisition of IPG
The transaction closes on November 26, 2025. IPG becomes a wholly owned part of Omnicom. As of the last review of this profile, IPG's three Gulf agencies continue to operate under their pre-deal brands while integration plans are worked through; the IPG holding-company entity itself is in run-off.
- 1 Sept 2024RestructureWeber Shandwick — Office Open
Returned as MEPRA Awards Diamond Partner for a third consecutive year — the highest sponsorship tier, signalling continued institutional investment in the regional awards ecosystem.
- 2024StrategicOmnicom announces acquisition of IPG
On December 9, 2024 Omnicom announces an all-stock acquisition of Interpublic Group. The deal places IPG's Gulf agencies — Weber Shandwick, Golin and Current Global — on a path into a combined Omnicom-IPG holding company pending regulatory clearance.
- 1 Sept 2023LeadershipCurrent Global — Hire
Dubai Airports appointed Current Global as retained PR agency — a category-defining win in regional aviation comms.
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Pre-acquisition, IPG ran the most explicit sister-brand differentiation strategy of any holding company in the Gulf. Weber Shandwick and Golin were deliberately kept on separate propositions rather than collapsed into a single network — a posture closer to Omnicom's pre-deal logic than to WPP's consolidation under Burson. Current Global operated as a smaller third leg with a more global-network orientation.
Post-close, that differentiation logic now sits inside a larger parent. The choices facing the combined Omnicom-IPG group regionally are: keep all five named PR agencies (Weber Shandwick, Golin, Current Global, FleishmanHillard, Ketchum) operating distinctly, consolidate some, or run a Burson-style network play. None of those choices have been publicly committed to as of the last review.
For now, the three IPG agencies continue to operate under their pre-deal brands and pre-deal regional leadership, with no announced integration timeline that is publicly documented.