UWG (UniWorld Group)

CTL-E-0745 · Business · other · 1969-present

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New York-based multicultural ad agency founded 1969 by Byron Lewis; one of the oldest African-American-owned agencies, now minority-owned and woman-led with WPP as a 49% strategic partner.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MEDIA-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MEDIA-001:MED-128; source research type(s): Business.

Sources

en.wikipedia.org (Byron Lewis; UWG Inc.); wpp.com (2000-06)
wpp.com/companies/uniworld-group (crawled 2026); en.wikipedia.org (UWG Inc.)

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