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By Stephen Foster on March 1, 2013
WPP more or less matched rivals Publicis Groupe and Havas, beat Interpublic but lagged Omnicom with growth of 2.9 per cent in 2012, according to its full year accounts released today. Billings fell slightly to around £44bn (blamed on the weaker pound) while pre-tax profits increased 3.5 per cent to £1.3bn on revenue of £10.4bn. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR, Research | Tagged 2012 results, growth, Interpublic, Jim Houghton, market research, omnicom, PR, publicis groupe, results international, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 27, 2013
WPP announces its 2012 results on Friday and the odds are that they’re going to be good – if the recent hike in its share price is anything to go by. WPP, because of its scale and the number of companies it owns in different sectors of the global ad market, has become a kind [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged 2012 results, kantar, market research, omnicom, publicis groupe, questions for investors, Sir Martin Sorrell, succession plan, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 26, 2013
Top Publicis Groupe executive Mathias Emmerich (left) and the former CEO of Leo Burnett Greece Petros Venetis may be charged by Greek prosecutors over a €200m TV airtime broking deal that went disastrously wrong and led to the closure of Leo Burnett in Greece. Publicis Groupe offered creditors a percentage of the airtime value in [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Alexander Holland, antenna group, Greece, greek prosecution, leo burnett, Mathias Emmerich, Petros Venetis, publicis groupe, tv airtime broking deal
By Stephen Foster on February 5, 2013
Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy (left) is busily tidying up his digital agency assets after splashing out $540m on digital agency network LBi last year. PG is creating a new global super-network called Digitas LBi combining LBi (which is strongest outside America) with Digitas which is massive in the States. LBi’s Luke Taylor will be [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Bob Lord, digitas, kitcatt nohr digitas, lbi, Luke Taylor, Marc Nohr, Maurice Levy, publicis groupe, razorfish, rosetta, Stephen Beringer
By Stuart Smith on January 30, 2013
Not all fairy tales have a happy ending. One such is the marriage of convenience between Brazilian hotshop Neogama, its micro-network affiliate BBH and Publicis Groupe. Readers will recall that, a little over six months ago, Publicis chief Maurice Lévy bought out the 51 per cent of BBH PG did not already own. A useful [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance | Tagged Alexandre Gama, bbh, bradesco, brazil, deal, Interpublic, Jean-Yves Naouri, Maurice Levy, mccann, neogama, omo, procter & gamble, publicis groupe, unilever
By Stephen Foster on January 2, 2013
Well it’s already the biggest of a bunch also numbering Omnicom, Publicis Groupe, Interpublic, Aegis/Dentsu and Havas so what’s new about 2013? According to an interesting piece in MediaPost, which has chosen to award WPP a new gong as holding company of 2012, the difference between WPP and its competitors is its various proprietary systems [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis/dentsu, groupm, Interpublic, kantar, Media, mediapost, nielsen, omnicom, publicis groupe, Sir Martin Sorrell, vivaki, WPP, xaxis
By Stephen Foster on December 21, 2012
It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its woof, was Publicis Groupe’s bid for Interpublic. This was the big story of the summer [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, christmas, Dan Wieden, David Petraeus, IPG, Jimmy Savile, Lord Patten, Michael Roth, publicis groupe, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tony Hall, WPP
By Staff on December 11, 2012
Here’s Maurice Levy’s Christmas card from Publicis Groupe. It’s been an interesting year for PG; a good financial performance by peer group standards, the acquisition of LBi and a neat and advantageous exit from its partnership with Dentsu. But is there something lacking? Flagship agency Publicis Worldwide still doesn’t stand for much apart from lots [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, PR | Tagged christmas card, Interpublic, Maurice Levy, publicis groupe
By Stephen Foster on December 7, 2012
A new client usually means an agency review and new boss of Nestle USA, Brit Paul Grimwood (left), is no exception. Nestle USA has announced a wide-ranging review of its $800m or so ad budget, starting with media currently handled by Publicis Groupe’s ZenithOptimedia. Other bits of the account including creative, digital and PR are [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged agency review, Nestle, north america, Paul Grimwood, publicis, publicis groupe, zenithoptimedia
By Angie Dean on December 6, 2012
Fashion items and luxury goods have proved remarkably resilient during the recession with big-spendng clients preferring to stay with smaller specialists rather than entrusting their precious wares to big agencies. So Publicis Groupe is buying specialist agency AR New York whose clients include Banana Republic, Brioni, Smartwater and Jimmy Choo (left). The agency was founded [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged ar new york, banana republic, Dianne Desroches, fashion, Interpublic, Jimmy Choo, luxury, Maurice Levy, publicis groupe, Raul Martinez
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