Icaro Doria takes top creative post at Havas’ Arnold

August 8, 2017 Comments Off on Icaro Doria takes top creative post at Havas’ Arnold

Doubts have been expressed about the future of Havas-owned Arnold Worldwide following the departure of CEO Andrew Benett and Havas’ move to a more integrated structure built around so-called “villages” (including here) but the agency seems keen to invest, hiring ...

David Jones exit puts Havas into takeover play

January 9, 2014 1 Comment

Is Havas more or less likely to be sold now that CEO David Jones has decided to step down to form his own social media company? New boss Yannick Bollore (left), son of major shareholder Vincent, has rather pointedly not ...

Jones quits Havas as Bollores take over top jobs

January 8, 2014 Comments Off on Jones quits Havas as Bollores take over top jobs

It was pretty clear last June that David Jones’s time as CEO of Havas was up, when majority shareholder Vincent Bollore promoted son Yannick to chairman of the business and other son Cyrille to be his number two at family-owned ...

Robert LePlae takes new top role at Arnold

August 6, 2012 Comments Off on Robert LePlae takes new top role at Arnold

Everybody else in marcoms land may be opening their wallets (or taking a look and then putting it back in their pockets in the case of Publicis Groupe with Interpublic) but Havas boss David Jones has decided that hiring rather ...

How do you lift mainstream big brand advertising? McDonald’s US succeeds, Pepsi’s still struggling

January 13, 2012 Comments Off on How do you lift mainstream big brand advertising? McDonald’s US succeeds, Pepsi’s still struggling

Finding out which agency did what for a client is a nightmare these days, I’m sure clients partly do it to confuse us hacks. Anyway this new and rather good ad for McDonald’s Egg McMuffin sandwich seems to be from ...

New Havas boss David Jones shows his hand with attempt to launch French agency BETC as global network

May 20, 2011 Comments Off on New Havas boss David Jones shows his hand with attempt to launch French agency BETC as global network

New Havas CEO David Jones is clearly aware that the network is rather short of global brands (Euro RSCG and Arnold in creative, Media Planning Group in media) so he has decided to launch French network agency BETC as a ...

Havas performs strongly as David Jones takes the reins as CEO

April 27, 2011 Comments Off on Havas performs strongly as David Jones takes the reins as CEO

French-owned marcoms company Havas, now headed by new CEO David Jones, has posted decent first quarter figures with revenue up 9.7 per cent from €329m to €361m and claimed organic growth of 6.8 per cent. The comparative growth rates for ...

Havas steps up the pace as Arnold snaps up Modernista digital trio

March 29, 2011 Comments Off on Havas steps up the pace as Arnold snaps up Modernista digital trio

The Arnold agency network (it doesn’t sound very exciting does it, a bit like Grey) is very much the second string in Havas behind Euro RSCG. But if newly-annointed Havas CEO David jones is to make up lost ground on ...

Two years after Enfatico collapses Dell dumps WPP for three smaller agencies

February 28, 2011 Comments Off on Two years after Enfatico collapses Dell dumps WPP for three smaller agencies

If there’s one consistent theme to Sir Martin Sorrell’s long tenure at WPP (apart from delivering the numbers of course) it’s his belief that WPP can and should set up customised mini-agencies for big clients. The most recent is Blue ...