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Home > Company Index > Diversified Services > Advertising > UniWorld Group, Inc.

UniWorld Group, Inc.
 PROFILE
UniWorld Group is doing its part for world unity -- bringing together consumers and the products they think they want. The largest African-American-owned ad firm in the US, UniWorld is a full-service agency that helps such clients as AT&T, Burger King, and Ford Motor Company reach minority consumers. The company also promotes films through its UniWorld Film unit (the firm helped promote the original "Shaft" in 1971). Chairman and CEO Byron Lewis founded UniWorld in 1969. UK advertising conglomerate WPP Group acquired a 49% stake in the company in 2000.

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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
2000 Sales (mil.): 25.60
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 16.2%
Employees: 160
Revenue per employee: $160,000.00

 KEY PEOPLE
• Byron E. Lewis
    CEO
• Josefina Penzes
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
100 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013
US
Phone: 212-219-1600
Fax: 212-941-0650
Online: Web Site

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