By Stephen Foster on May 31, 2012
Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy told his company’s AGM that he was confident that Publicis Groupe would continue to outperform the market in the second half of 2012 despite the financial carnage in the Eurozone (with Spain now heading for the knacker’s yard) and clients trimming budgets accordingly. He also produced this interesting take on [...]
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By Staff on March 12, 2012
It seems entirely appropriate that Fred & Farid, the indie Paris agency 30 per cent owned by Havas chairman Vincent Bollore, is planning to set up shop in Shanghai in a former opium warehouse. It’s also not really a surprise that the enfants terrible are making a big song and dance now about something that [...]
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By Stephen Foster on February 17, 2012
Publicis Groupe has bought back nearly all the 11 per cent stake in the company held by Dentsu (some 18m shares) at a cost of €644m. This effectively brings to an end the alliance the two companies struck ten years ago although Dentsu still holds just over two per cent of the French marcoms giant [...]
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