By Stuart Smith on July 24, 2012
These days, we’ve come to see Maurice Lévy, chairman and chief executive of Publicis Groupe, as something of an oracle. Every time the 70-year-old eminence grise makes one of his ceremonial public appearances – ostensibly to observe the religious rites of the financial year – we strain our ears for words of greater meaning, expertly [...]
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By Stuart Smith on December 19, 2011
For Maurice Lévy (pictured) and Sir Martin Sorrell – a pair who love to loathe each other – politics is clearly a continuation of war by other means. By now, we’re all familiar with the WPP chief executive’s increasingly assured role as a political and economic soothsayer. He’s forever popping up on the Today programme; [...]
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By Angie Dean on September 20, 2011
Creativity is king at the moment and Publicis Worldwide, the world’s number three agency network, has been a bit short of it recently. So the Publicis Groupe-owned giant has lured Belgian Eric Vervroegen from Omnicom’s Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco to be its new international creative director. Before joining Goodby as a creative [...]
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