0000903423-12-000130.txt : 20120228 0000903423-12-000130.hdr.sgml : 20120228 20120228150909 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000903423-12-000130 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: FWP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120228 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120228 SUBJECT COMPANY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: INTERPUBLIC GROUP OF COMPANIES, INC. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000051644 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-ADVERTISING AGENCIES [7311] IRS NUMBER: 131024020 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0526 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: FWP SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-179667 FILM NUMBER: 12646588 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1114 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS STREET 2: 19TH FLOOR CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10036 BUSINESS PHONE: 212-704-1200 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1114 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS STREET 2: 16TH FLOOR CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10036 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: INTERPUBLIC GROUP OF COMPANIES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MCCANN ERICKSON INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19710715 FILED BY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: INTERPUBLIC GROUP OF COMPANIES, INC. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000051644 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-ADVERTISING AGENCIES [7311] IRS NUMBER: 131024020 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0526 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: FWP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1114 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS STREET 2: 19TH FLOOR CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10036 BUSINESS PHONE: 212-704-1200 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1114 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS STREET 2: 16TH FLOOR CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10036 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: INTERPUBLIC GROUP OF COMPANIES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MCCANN ERICKSON INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19710715 FWP 1 ipg-fwp.htm Unassociated Document
 
 
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
Filed Pursuant to Rule 433
Registration No. 333-179667
February 28, 2012
Final Term Sheet

4.00% Senior Notes due 2022
 

Issuer:
The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc.
   
Size:
$250,000,000
   
Title of Securities:
 
4.00% Senior Notes due 2022
Maturity Date:
March 15, 2022
   
Coupon:
4.00%
   
Reoffer Yield:
4.155%
   
Trade Date:
February 28, 2012
   
Settlement Date:
March 2, 2012 (T+3)
   
Price to Public:
98.737% of principal amount
   
Spread to Benchmark Treasury:
 
T+ 225 basis points
Benchmark Treasury:
2.00% due February 15, 2022
   
Benchmark Treasury Price/Yield:
 
Make-Whole Call:
100-27+ / 1.905%
 
At any time at a discount rate of Treasury plus 35 basis points
   
Interest Payment Dates:
March 15 and September 15, beginning September 15, 2012
   
Expected Ratings*:
 
 
 
CUSIP/ISIN:
 
Joint Book-Running Managers:
Baa3/Stable (Moody’s)
BB+/Positive (S&P)
BBB/Stable (Fitch)
 
460690 BH2 / US460690BH27
 
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
   
Co-Managers:
 
 
 
 
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
ING Financial Markets LLC
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
UBS Securities LLC
The issuer has filed a registration statement, including a prospectus and a preliminary prospectus supplement, with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates.  Before you invest, you should read the prospectus and the preliminary prospectus supplement in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering.  You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.  Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus and the preliminary prospectus supplement (or, if available, the prospectus supplement) if you request it by calling Citigroup Global Markets Inc. toll-free at 1-877-858-5407, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC collect at 212-834-4533, or Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC toll-free at 1-866-718-1649.

*The security ratings above are not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold the securities offered hereby. The ratings may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time by the assigning rating organization. Each of the security ratings above should be evaluated independently of any other security rating.