Major international ad agency moves to El Segundo

Ad agency Innocean USA, which creates advertising for Hyundai and others, has agreed to move its U.S. headquarters to El Segundo in one of the largest leases of the year in the South Bay.Seoul-based Innocean will rent 100,000 square feet in a former airplane manufacturing plant that has been converted to offices and now houses well-known businesses such as L’Oréal cosmetics and Beyond, which makes plant protein meat substitutes.Innocean USA is the U.S. arm of Innocean Worldwide, a global marketing and communications network founded by Hyundai Motor Group that also serves non-automotive clients.Innocean’s offices have been in Huntington Beach since 2009 and the agency needs more space, Chief Executive Steve Jun said. Nearly 600 of its employees are now spread among multiple buildings. They will be under one roof at 888 Douglas St. near Los Angeles International Airport by the summer of 2027.The building to be occupied by Innocean was completed in 1930 as a bus manufacturing plant for Pickwick Stage Co., a California operator that became part of Greyhound Lines. It was later used for making airplanes, including World War II dive bombers produced by Douglas Aircraft Co.The former manu...