Ogilvy's List of Clients:

 

Avoid clients whose ethos is incompatible with yours.

- David Ogilvy

 

1950: Guinness

Wedgwood

1952: British Travel Association

Hathaway Shirts

Helena Rubenstein

1953: Schweppes

Unilever

1954: Puerto Rico

1955: Campbell Soup

Melville Shoe

Stueben Glass

1956: Pepperidge Farm

1957: Armstrong Cork

Seagram

1959: General Foods

Rolls-Royce

1960: Bristol Myers

1962: KLM Royal Dutch

1964: American Express

IBM

Sears Roebuck

1965: General Dynamics

Morgan Guaranty

1966: Gillette

Merck

1967: Merrill Lynch

1968: Hershey

Owens Corning Fiberglass

1969: French Government Tourist Office

Menley & James

1970: Avon

National Distillers

1974: Chesebrough Ponds

S.C. Johnson

Union Carbide

1979: Kimberley Clark

Smith Barney

1982: Hallmark Cards

1984: Duracell

1985: Shering

Squibb

Time/Life

1987: Colonial Williamsburg

1988: Ford

1993: Jaguar

1994: IBM

1995: Kodak


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