marketing communications headquarters mumbai india number of locations mumbai gurgaon new delhi bengaluru kolkata chennai pune hyderabad and ahmedabad area served south asia asia asia pacific global key people joseph george group ceo services advertising and marketing communications digital solutions identity and graphic design public relations rural and below the line communications healthcare communications healthcare and film production . number of employees 850 parent interpublic group of companies divisions lowe lintas mullen lintas dcell golinopinion linteractive linengage linhealth linconsult linproductions website mullenlowe lintas group mullenlowe lintas group is an indian marketing communications company . the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the interpublic group ipg and is part of the mullenlowe group . on may 8 2015 the global lowe worldwide network aligned with the us agency mullen to form the mullenlowe group part of the interpublic group of companies nyse ipg . headquartered out of london lowe worldwide has over 100 offices in 82 countries . mullenlowe lintas group offers advertising digital public relations strategic design rural marketing healthcare communications and film production . mullenlowe lintas group employs over 850 people across seven divisions and eight cities all over india . citation needed contents 1 history 2 key people 3 campaigns 4 references 5 external links history edit mullenlowe lintas group began operating individually in 1969 as lintas the indian division of lintas acronym for lever international advertising services which itself was established in 1899 later a part of unilever . in 2000 the company changed its name to lowe lintas following the global merger of the ipg networks ammirati puris lintas and the lowe group in november 1999 . mullenlowe lintas group was then helmed by prem mehta with executive creative directors r. balakrishnan balki and k. m. sridhar leading the creative function . at the time with billings of over 11 billion mullenlowe group was ranked as the fourth largest global agency group worldwide with offices in 80 countries while mullenlowe lintas group was the second largest advertising agency in india 1 2 with a turnover of rs . 750 crores . 3 in 2007 lintas india sold the 51 % stake it owned in mullenlowe lintas group to its international partner the interpublic group ipg . since then the agency has been a part of mullenlowe group which in turn is held by the interpublic group . 4 mullenlowe lintas group has produced india s first television commercial and also introduced the discipline of channel planning to india . it has introduced shyam benegal gerson da cunha rama bijapurkar gautam rajadhyaksha and alyque padamsee . recently r. balki former group chairman quit advertising and retired from the group in the month of august 2016 . key people edit joseph george group ceo vivek kamath group cfo arun iyer chief creative officer lowe lintas amer jaleel chairman and chief creative officer mullen lintas vikas mehta chief marketing officer campaigns edit this section does not cite any sources . please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message icici life insurance par bande ache hai tata tea jaago re idea you re my pumpkin pumpkin honey bunny ; 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