The devastating earthquake that struck Chile early Saturday morning destroyed DDB’s offices and damaged another Omnicom agency, OMD, as well as Interpublic’s Lowe Porta and WPP’s Ogilvy and Wunderman. All the damaged agencies are located in the same hard-hit Ciudad Empresarial office park on the outskirts of Santiago that is also home to marketers including Xerox and Shell, as well as CNN.
Eduardo Fernandez, president of DDB Chile, told Ad Age, “We don’t have any computers, or any furniture, or any data. But the most important thing is that although we don’t have anything, we have ourselves.”
Saturday’s magnitude-8.8 earthquake happened at 3:30 a.m., no one was at the office, and DDB Chile’s staff of about 100 people are all safe, he said.
