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1905
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B
Dattaram & Co claims to be the oldest existing Indian agency
in |
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Girgaum
in Bombay |
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1912
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ITC
(then Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd.) launches Gold Flake |
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1920s
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Enter
the first foreign owned ad agencies |
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Gujarat
Advertising and Indian Advertising set up |
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Expatriate
agencies emerge: Alliance Advertising, Tata Publicity |
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LA
Stronach's merges into today's Norvicson Advertising |
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D
J Keymer gives rise to Ogilvy & Mather and Clarion
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1925
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LR
Swami & Co, Madras |
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1926
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LA
Stronach & Co (India) Pr. Ltd, Bombay starts |
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Agency
called National set up for American rather than British
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advertisers |
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American
importers hire Jagan Nath Jaini, then advertising manager
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of
Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. National today is still
run by |
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Jaini's family |
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Beginning
of multinational agencies |
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J
Walter Thompson (JWT) opened to service General Motors business |
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1928
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BOMAS
Ltd (Formerly DJ Keymer & Co Ltd) set up |
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1929
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J
Walter Thompson Co Pr. Ltd formed |