Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide Wins Grand Global and Two Global Awards at 2013 Gala

PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwired - Nov 21, 2013) - Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide (www.ogilvychww.com), the health behavior experts of Ogilvy & Mather (www.ogilvy.com), today announced the network won a Grand Global award, two Global Awards and three Finalist Certificates at the 2013 Global Awards held last week in both New York and Sydney, Australia.

Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide is a WPP company (NASDAQ: WPPGY) (www.wpp.com). The organization houses and maintains individual Ogilvy CommonHealth and Ogilvy Healthworld brand identities within the marketplace.

The Global Awards, in its 19^th year, is an international competition that is committed to honoring excellence in healthcare communications agencies. The Global Awards receives entries from healthcare corporations, hospitals, advertising agencies, production companies, and design studios that produce communications for medical, pharmaceutical, and healthcare related products and services. This year's galas were held simultaneously on Friday, November 15 at the Helen Mills Theatre in New York City and at The Blue Beat, in Double Bay, Sydney, Australia.

Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide's Ogilvy Healthworld office in Brazil won a Grand Global Award (the highest possible honor within the competition, only two were awarded among hundreds of entries) in the "Consumer/Patient: Social Commitment - Integrated Campaign" category. The Brazilian agency also won a Global Award in the "Consumer/Patient: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising - Integrated Campaign" category and received a Finalist Certificate in the Consumer/Patient: Print & Mixed Media - Outdoor" category. Ogilvy CommonHealth's Paris team also received a Global Award in "Art and Technique - User Experience" category. Additionally, the organization's Ogilvy DigitalHealth office in the UK and their Ogilvy CommonHealth office in Parsippany were both awarded Finalist Certificates in the "Healthcare Professional: Video, Audio, Interactive Media - Interactive Environments" and "Healthcare Prodessional: Promotional Marketing - Integrated Campaign" categories, respectively.

Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide is committed to creativity and effectiveness in healthcare communications, everywhere. With 60 offices across 33 countries, the group provides marketing services including brand identity and development, clinical trial recruitment, digital/interactive services, direct-to-consumer, direct-to-patient, global integration, managed care marketing, market research and analytics, media planning and buying, medical advertising and promotion, medical education, public affairs and relations, relationship marketing, and strategic consulting. The network also offers scientific communications and publications services through a wholly owned separate legal entity.