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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 July 16, 2012
Poor David Jones (pictured), the charismatic and youthful CEO of Havas isn’t usually left as the wallflower on the sidelines of the ad business but that’s exactly where he is at the moment. A Dentsu takeover of media buyer Aegis, long seen as a partner for Havas (Havas chairman Vincent Bollore was the biggest shareholder [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, david jones, dentsu, havas, John Wren, lbi, omnicom, Sir Martin Sorrell, Vincent Bollore, WPP
By Stephen Foster on July 15, 2012
Aegis CEO Jerry Buhlmann (left) had an interview in the Sunday Times Business News today (there’s no point in providing a link as the Times paywall is a drawbridge) saying, inter alia, that there was no conflct between his giant media buying contract with General Motors and Dentsu’s Toyota, that key shareholder Vincent Bollore was [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, dentsu, general motors, Jerry Buhlmann, kinetic, mcgarrybowen, merger, omnicom, out of home, posterscope, private equity, rival bidder, sunday times interview, toyota, Vincent Bollore, WPP
By Stephen Foster on July 12, 2012
As delivered to Ad Age, just as BBH boss Nigel Bogle did last week when BBH sold the outstanding 51 per cent shareholding to Publicis Groupe for, we think, about €100m. Can’t think why they don’t share these intelligences with us. Aegis got very cross with us for suggesting that its $3bn global account win [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Ad Age, aegis, dentsu, general motors, havas, Jerry Buhlmann, Joel Ewanick, publicis groupe, takeover, toyota, Vincent Bollore, WPP
By Stephen Foster on July 12, 2012
Well we didn’t see this one coming. Aegis, the global media planning and buying group, has agreed a $3.16bn sale to Japanese marcoms giant Dentsu, owner of the Mcgarrybowen creative agency. The 240p a share offer is a 48 per cent premium to yesterday’s share price in London which valued the company at £1.9bn. So, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, carat, dentsu, ipsos, Jerry Buhlmann, synovate, takeover, Vincent Bollore, vizeum
By Stephen Foster on June 21, 2012
Well he is the boss of a French company and speaks good French, although Havas CEO David Jones (left) was chatting to Campaign in English when he remarked that WPP would collapse on its nose if and when CEO Sir Martin Sorrell departs. Sorrell, of course, has been under fire from WPP shareholders over his [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged akqa, cannes, david jones, havas, JWT, shareholder revolt, Sir Martin Sorrell, Vincent Bollore
By Stephen Foster on March 27, 2012
Havas is to spend €253m ($336m) buying back 12 per cent of its shares, a move that will boost majority owner Vincent Bollore’s shareholding from 32.84 per cent to 37.32 per cent. The buy-back is at €4.90 share, a healthy 21 per cent premium to the current price and values Havas at around €2bn. Havas [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged acquisitions, aegis, akqa, carat, david jones, dentsu, Euro RSCG, havas, horizon media, Interpublic, mother, omnicom, publicis groupe, share buy-back, Vincent Bollore, vizeum, wieden+kennedy, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 15, 2012
Aegis Group, which owns the Carat and Vizeum media buying agencies, out of home agency Posterscope and digital network Isobar, achieved organic growth of 9.9 per cent in 2011 (12.2 per cent in the last quarter) as profits soared to £197m from an adjusted figure of £151m. Its income rose 21 per cent to £1.14bn. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged aegis, carat, general motors, groupm, havas, isobar, Jerry Buhlmann, omd, omnicom, organic growth, posterscope, record profits, roundarch, Vincent Bollore, vizeum, WPP
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 [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged audi, China, eddi&son, Farid Mokart, Feng Huang, fred & farid, Fred Raillard, furious monkeys, Gregoire Chalopin, havas, hello sunshine, kronenbourg, marcel, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, Maurice Levy, paris, publicis groupe, shnghai office, Vincent Bollore, Weight Watchers
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