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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...