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By Stephen Foster on June 7, 2013
Havas chairman Vincent Bollore is planning to promote elder son Yannick (left) to replace him when he steps down later this year. He has also promoted younger son Cyrille to be his deputy at family-owned Bollore Group, which holds the biggest stake in Havas. Which, in a sense, is business much as before but it [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Finance, News | Tagged bollore group, Cyrille Bollore, david jones, havas, succession plans, Vincent Bollore, Yannick Bollore
By Stephen Foster on June 6, 2013
Only a fifth of all the brands out there make a meaningful difference to our lives according to new research from Havas – and most people would happily do without 70 per cent of them (over 90 per cent of them in the US and UK). The Meaningful Brands survey purports to measure the effect [...]
Posted in Analysis, Clients, News, PR, Research | Tagged bimbo, danone, david jones, Financial results, happiness, havas, ikea, leroy martin, meaningful brands survey, Nestle, one world, wellbeing
By Stuart Smith on April 16, 2013
Whoever said advertising was a young person’s business? The conventional wisdom is that at 40, most ad executives would be advised to investigate a second career. And at 50, they’ll be positively clapped out and have “post-economic” freedom foisted upon them whether they like it or not. Superficially, membership statistics for the Institute of Practitioners [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged age, Bob Willott, david jones, havas, holding companies, Interpublic, ipa, John Wren, Maurice Levy, Michael Roth, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Staff on April 12, 2013
Scam ads are turning into an epidemic – or maybe we’re just noticing them after the JWT India Ford Figo fiasco. Now agency Arnold Worldwide is in the mire over a thoroughly weird mental health type ad for McDonald’s that ran on Boston’s subway, which it admits was unauthorised. “You’re not alone,” it says, “millions [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, PR | Tagged arnold worldwide, bbdo proximity, boston, david jones, ddb mundra, dhl, ford figo, goafest, havas, jwt india, McDonalds, unauthorised ad, you're not alone
By Staff on February 13, 2013
BETC London has had a strong start in life as the first outpost of Paris-based BETC with good work for (by definition) new clients Cow & Gate and Diet Coke and now it’s landed the global Bacardi account. Bacardi tends to advertise in fits and starts so nobody seems to know what the business (formerly [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bacardi, betc london, david jones, global account, havas, johannes leonardo
By Stephen Foster on December 14, 2012
We’re in the middle of our ads of the year extravaganza (Paul Simons and Giles Keeble in the bag, Jerry Judge, George Parker, Stuart Smith and me still to come) but there’s no doubt what the movement of the year (no jokes please) for marketers is: consumer boycotts. In the UK we’ve had Starbucks dishing [...]
Posted in Analysis, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Amazon, calvin klein, consumerboycotts, david jones, gap, google, Greenpeace, levis, social media, starbucks, tax avoidance, victoria's secret
By Stephen Foster on November 7, 2012
Havas increased its revenues by 11 per cent in the third quarter of this year to $546m but organic growth was down to the same disappointing levels of about two per cent reported by rivals WPP and Publicis Groupe; more evidence that the calamitous collapse of business confidence in the eurozone is hammering the big [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged data, david jones, havas, omnicom, publicis groupe, results, unilever, Vincent Bollore, WPP
By Staff on October 9, 2012
And then there was one. Back in April Havas bought Boulder, Colorado crowd-sourcing agency Victors & Spoils in what looked to some like an audacious bet on the future, to others complete madness. Co-founder Claudia Batten was off to set up her own thing almost as soon as the ink was dry and now another [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged boulder colorado, Claudia Batten, crispin porter+bogusky, david jones, Evan Fry, havas, john Winsor, massive, Microsoft, Sir Martin Sorrell, victors & spoils, Vincent Bollore, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 24, 2012
I think we’ve been here before – but this time it’s official. Marcoms network Havas is renaming Euro RSG Havas Creative and its various media agencies (chiefly MPG) Havas Media. Second agency network Arnold Worldwide (which could surely do with a new name) remains as is. But, to muddy the waters slightly, there’s also the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, Media, News | Tagged arnold worldwide, david jones, Euro RSCG, havas creative, havas digital, havas media, mpg
By Staff on August 7, 2012
Havas boss David Jones is sticking to his policy of shopping in the bargain basement of marcoms land, with Don Elgie’s Creston mini-marcoms outfit revealing that the French-owned firm has bought six per cent of its shares. News emerged of Havas stakebuilding over the weekend. Creston, whose shares have risen accordingly, is now valued at [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Creston, david jones, Don Elgie, havas, Interpublic, omnicom
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