Tag Archives: Arthur Sadoun

The widely advertising spate of agency reviews, mostly driven by the US, continues apace – not just media but some creative ones too. On the latter front Sears Holdings, which spends about $400m, has finalised its review, dumping Interpublic’s FCB ...

Is this a sign of more merger mania at Publicis Groupe (the giant French marcoms company has been busy shunting its digital media operations into big units over the past year)? Publicis Worldwide president Arthur Sadoun (below) is becoming the ...

Publicis Groupe bought Montreal-based Nurun, which has 11 offices across the world, in September from Quebecor Media in a $115 million deal. Nurun’s offices in Montreal, San Francisco, Madrid and Shanghai will be integrated into Publicis Worldwide to create a ...

Long-serving Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy (he took the helm in 1987) was supposed to be stepping down next year but now he’s not – he’s still going to be there until 2017. PG is still grappling with the consequences ...

Oh to be a fly on the wall at the Four Seasons hotel in Miami (below) where about 100 top execs from Omnicom and Publicis Groupe will convene on October 18 to discuss how they’re going to get on together, ...

As merger rumours go, this one didn’t come much better. Omnipub. Or more probably Publicom. But let’s come back to that later. The idea that the world’s number two marketing services group, Omnicom, is about to combine with the number ...

These days, we’ve come to see Maurice Lévy, chairman and chief executive of Publicis Groupe, as something of an oracle. Every time the 70-year-old eminence grise makes one of his ceremonial public appearances – ostensibly to observe the religious rites ...

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 ...

Creativity is king at the moment and Publicis Worldwide, the world’s number three agency network, has been a bit short of it recently. So the Publicis Groupe-owned giant has lured Belgian Eric Vervroegen from Omnicom’s Goodby Silverstein & Partners in ...