1.   The agency companies will also be responsible for ensuring that syndicates are capable of handling the business they take on.

2.   Analysts and industry executives have long suspected that a larger agency company would one day swallow Cordiant, which ranks ninth among agency companies.

3.   And Greenstone Roberts Advertising in Melville, N.Y., agreed last week to an exclusive and reciprocal affiliation with Finex Communications Group, a London-based agency company.

4.   Besides, if DaimlerChrysler left, it would eliminate potential conflicts if True North combined with any other agency company, like Interpublic, that had big automotive clients.

5.   Both agency companies have sued and countersued each other repeatedly in the last five weeks after Publicis proposed the hostile takeover.

6.   Both then began a willy-nilly series of separate acquisitions that served to pit each agency company against the other rather than working together.

7.   Bozell and WPP Make Acquisitions Two agency companies have made acquisitions.

8.   A giant agency company is enlisting in the fight against AIDS to battle not fear or ignorance but a perception that the fight is finished.

9.   Adweek reported that the two agency companies had exchanged financial data.

10.   Della Femina, who owns his shop in a joint venture with a privately held agency company, Ketchum Communications, echoed that assessment.