CommonHealth Celebrates Opening of Paris Office.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- CommonHealth (www.commonhealth.com), a WPP Group (NASDAQ/ADR: WPPGY; www.wpp.com) company and the world's leading healthcare-communications network, announced today that it has opened an office in Paris. The move is designed to allow CommonHealth to broaden its offerings to an increasingly global clientele.

"Our clients have awarded us substantial opportunities that resulted in achieving critical mass outside the U.S., and we can foresee additional offices in the near future," said Matt Giegerich, president and CEO of CommonHealth.

CommonHealth Paris will be managed by Katie Piette, European account leader, reporting to Dr. Jean-Marc Mosselmans, CommonHealth's European regional president. "We have enjoyed a long and successful partnership with CommonHealth. It was a natural step to help them continue to grow their European presence," said Ms. Piette.

CommonHealth Paris will serve as a hub office, continuing to coordinate with long-standing WPP partner Ogilvy Healthworld to provide local points of presence throughout the rest of Europe and newly emerging markets in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America.

Noted David Chapman, managing partner of CommonHealth's professional advertising agencies group, "Katie and her team not only extend our marketing expertise and capabilities, but they also offer our clients access to world-class creative, medical education and public relations."

CommonHealth Paris is located at 21 Rue Quentin Bauchart, Paris, minutes from the Arc de Triomphe. Ms. Piette can be contacted directly at [phone] or by e-mail [e-mail].

CommonHealth comprises CommonHealth Paris, Adient, Altum, Carbon, Conectics, Ferguson, HLS, MBS/Vox, Noesis, ProCom, Qi, Quantum, Solara and Xchange. The organization also maintains numerous partnerships both within and outside of the WPP Group network of companies.