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By Stephen Foster on April 2, 2012
Maurice Levy, boss of Publicis Groupe and head of the French employers’ organisation among many other things in his native country, isn’t used to being treated like this. But French politicians on both sides of the political divide are busy criticising a long-term bonus plan that is set to pay him $21.6m (€16m) imminently. There’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged $21.3m payout, digitas, Francois Hollande, french election, Interpublic, Maurice Levy, nicolas sarkozy, publicis groupe, razorfish, retirement
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; [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged afep, any questions, Arthur Sadoun, association francaises des enterprises privees, bonus, cac 40, cbi, desert island discs, euro, lion lead, Maurice Levy, nicolas sarkozy, Sir Martin Sorrell, succession plan, Warren Buffet
By Stephen Foster on December 12, 2011
One minute UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is supporting (reluctantly-ish) his boss PM David Cameron in the latter’s decision to wield his veto to keep Britain out of something or other at the EU (nobody seems sure exactly what), tbe next minute he’s telling his mates in the media like the Observer’s Will Hutton [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andrew Marr, Angela Merkel, Chris Huhne, David Cameron, eu treaties, eurozone, great communicator, Nick Clegg, nicolas sarkozy, uk coalition government, uk financial sector, Vince Cable, Will Hutton
By Staff on December 5, 2011
Which shouldn’t surprise anyone really – let’s just hope Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy bear the ad industry in mind when they meet for the umpteenth time today to try to sort out a eurozone fix. Publicis Groupe-owned ZenithOptimedia produces the most widely-followed spending forecast and today it’s going to revise 2012 anticipated growth down [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged adspend, Angela Merkel, eurozone problems, media agency, nicolas sarkozy, publicis groupe, slower growth, zenithoptimedia
By Staff on November 7, 2011
Publicis Groupe and France Telecom are launching a venture capital start-up fund for tech companies aiming to raise €300m. The two companies are putting in the first €150m. The new fund will be managed independently of Publicis Groupe and France Telecom and will seek to back ventures in online marketing, e-commerce, mobile content and services, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged digital media, digitas, everything everywhere, france telecom, Maurice Levy, nicolas sarkozy, publicis groupe, razorfish, rosetta marketing group, tech start-ups, tech venture capital fund
By Stephen Foster on May 27, 2011
French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s clever plan to look both innovative and responsible at his unilateral ‘eG8′ summit in Deauville has flopped as his hand-picked collection of internet whizz guests (hand-picked by Maurice Levy of Publicis Groupe) roundly rejected his plans for more internet regulation. Leading the charge was 27-year old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. “On [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged anarchic internet, copyright piracy, deauville, eg8, Eric Schmidt, french election, french president, Mark Zuckerberg, Maurice Levy, nicolas sarkozy, publicis groupe
By Stephen Foster on May 26, 2011
WPP CEO Lord Sorrell (whoops, getting ahead of ourselves), Sir Martin Sorrell rather, was hobknobbing with 170 guests including bosses at Rolls-Royce and Unilever at the state banquet for president Barack Obama at Buckingham Palace the other night. Meanwhile in Paris Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy was lording it at the eG8, the confab of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, buckingham palace, eg8, facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Maurice Levy, news corporation, nicolas sarkozy, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, state banquet
By Stephen Foster on March 27, 2011
Clients the world over would probably be very pleased if nobody stepped forward as suitor in chief for independent media planning and buying group Aegis, Aegis is a way for them to put pressure on the huge media buying groups owned by WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and Interpublic. But French industrial magnate Vincent Bollore, whose [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged aegis, david jones, groupe bollore, havas, John Wren, Maurice Levy, nicolas sarkozy, omnicom, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, Vincent Bollore, Vincent Sarkozy, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 21, 2011
Well it’s not looking good with the Arab League, Russia, China and India already saying that France, the UK and the US have gone too far, too fast in blitzing Libya with cruise missiles. And the UK and the US saying France jumped the gun in launching air strikes on Saturday while the parties were [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alastair Campbell, arab league, Barck Obama, Bill Clinton, Colonel Gaddafi, David Cameron, kossovo, libya, nicolas sarkozy, pr disaster, serbia, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on March 19, 2011
Well clearly it’s not Colonel Gaddafi, although it’s unwise to write off the old villain until he’s safely interred in a coffin with a stake driven through his heart. But perception is all in these affairs (unless you’re being shot at of course) and the military intervention in Libya is a severe test of the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Barack Obama, benghazi, Colonel Gaddafi, David Cameron, france, George Bush, Jacques Chirac, libya, nicolas sarkozy, Tony Blair, uk, us
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