J. Walter Thompson Worldwide

JWT is the world’s best-known marketing communications brand that has been inventing and pioneering ideas for the past 150 years. Headquartered in New York, JWT is a true global network with more than 200 offices in over 90 countries, employing nearly 10,000 marketing professionals. JWT consistently ranks among the top agency networks in the world and continues a dominant presence in the industry by staying on the leading edge - from producing the first-ever TV commercial in 1939 to developing award-winning branded content today. In 1864 the company was founded in New York as Carlton and Smith, an advertising broker buying and selling space in the popular religious journals of the nineteenth century. The firm was later purchased and renamed by James Walter Thompson in 1878. As early as the 1890s, the company established branch offices in Boston, Chicago, and London. It also began creating advertisements and aiding clients in the development of trademarks and package designs. The company’s major clients include Kellogg’s, Kimberly-Clark, Macy’s, and Nestlé.

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