Everything in them was acquired under his aegis.
Just last month, the Copernicus unit of ad giant Dentsu Aegis acquired Forbes Consulting, a firm that uses a proprietary implicit testing method to gauge the non-conscious attitudes of consumers.
(Aegis was acquired by Dentsu in March).
UK-based media buying and research group Aegis has acquired Australia's largest marketing company, Mitchell Communication Group, in an A$363m£208m8m) deal.
Chief Executive George Sherman, a veteran of Black & Decker's power tools unit, presides over a diversified group of acquired companies run under the aegis of a management process called the Danaher Business System DBSS)–a knockoff of the Toyota Production System, which continually evaluates the manufacturing floor to identify and eliminate inefficiencies.
WGarden will become part of the iProspect unit of Aegis, which agreed to be acquired last week by Dentsu, Tokyo.
Aegis also has an option to acquire another 40percentt by the end of 2005.
Armed with Islamic faith, the indomitable will to fight, and divine permission to acquire booty from defeated enemies, the Arabs under the aegis of the first caliphate, in less than thirty years, conquered Mesopotamians, Syrians, Palestinians, Egyptians, Iranians and others.
But under Mr. O'Connor's aegis, Ayer bounced back, increasing its billings, acquiring two West Coast agencies and re-establishing a presence abroad.
For another, Mr Obama, who sees the American economy as his priority, has yet to acquire his own Middle East team, let alone policy, under the dual aegis of Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state and George Mitchell as his special envoy.
