Tag Archives: Jean-Yves Naouri

Actually they weren’t but that was what Omnicom’s John Wren and Publicis boss Maurice Levy intended in 2013, described here by Stuart Smith. As merger rumours go, this one didn’t come much better. Omnipub. Or more probably Publicom. But let’s ...

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 ...

We wrote earlier that the failure of the Omnicom/Publicis Groupe merger might result in the accelerated passage of some Omnicom types as the oldies – Omnicom’s John Wren and, on the other side, Publicis Groupe’s Maurice Levy – had rather ...

What are we to make of Maurice Levy’s musings about his and Publicis Groupe’s future? Levy hosted a confab in London (significant in itself as PG is really an Anglo-Saxon company these days) at which he promised two things. The ...

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 ...