HISTORY
McCann Erickson was established more than a century ago. Since then, it has grown in to a worldwide powerhouse, servicing its clients on all continets.
Click on to the highlighted years to see the most important events in our history.
1902
Alfred Erickson, ad manager of McCutcheon’s departments Store in Manhattan, starts his own agency.
1912
McCann and four partners launch the H.K.McCann Co. “Truth Well Told” is its credo.
1927
McCann opens officees in Paris, Berlin and London.
1930
McCann and Erickson merge to form $15 million agency.
1935
First Latin America offices open in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
1957
McCann becomes the first US agency to bill more than $100 million in television and radio.
1959
McCann opens in Australia, its first owned Asia-Pacific office, while also expanding its presence in Italy, the Netherlands and Switcerland.
1960
Harper reorganizes the company into four independent operating units reporting to McCann Erickson, Inc. (to become Interpublic in 1961). McCann Erickson Hakuhodo opens in Tokyo.
1973
McCann US and McCann International reunite as the single agency McCann Erickson Worldvide.
1997
McCann Erickson Worldgroup formed to meet the changing needs of marketers. Includes the Weber Group, Torre Lazur Healthcare, and what would become Momentum and MRM Partners.
2000
Adweek names McCann Erickson “Global Agency of the Year” For the third year in a row.
2003
McCann Worldgroup creates the McCann Demand ChainTM , a proprietary process that provides an ordered, structured and very successful model for linking the components of demand creation.
2005
McCann Erickson gains the license for organizing the London School of PR in Macedonia
2007
McCann Erickson Skopje 10th Years Anniversary
