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It would be surprising if Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy didn’t know that most of the company’s North American Procter & Gamble media business was lost when he announced the reorganisation into four ‘hubs’ last week, including Publicis Media headed ...

Omnicom has signalled a more aggressive acquisition policy and kicked things off by buying Grupo ABC, reportedly the biggest independent agency in Brazil with some other offices scattered around the world. Grupo ABC was founded in 2002 by Nizan Guanaes ...

What happens to the staff when there’s no growth among the agency-based holding companies? There is some growth, of course, as we’ve reported extensively in covering the Q3 results from WPP, Omnicom, Publcis Groupe and Interpublic. But not enough to ...

Interpublic (IPG) appears to be outstripping US rival Omnicom, judging by the two companies’ Q3 results. Omnicom Group’s worldwide revenue dropped by 1.1 per cent to $3.7 billion in the third quarter of 2015, compared with the same period last ...

Omnicom is upping the ante in the production wars by bringing its in-house production units into a new operation eg+ worldwide. Eg+ was formed by the merger of New York’s E-Graphics and Hub Plus last year. Omnicom cals the new ...

Boutique corporate advisory firm Ciesco has produced its summary of the big four holding companies’ first half 2015 results and the outlook for the rest of the year and beyond. While all of them grew in the first half of ...

*Leo Burnett in the States has lost Special K in the US to JWT, which will please people at WPP Towers in London’s Mayfair, already gung-ho following a triumphant WPP performance at Cannes. Kellogg’s’ Special K is one of those ...

Omnicom had a pretty good year in 2014, escaping from the mooted $35bn merger with Publciis Groupe in rather better order than Publicis did and growing revenue by 5.7 per cent and net income by 11 per cent. The shares ...

WPP, the world’s biggest advertising group headed by Sir Martin Sorrell (left), has reported a mixed bag for 2014 in its annual results. Profit exceeded £1.5bn for the first time (£1.51bn, up 3.7 per cent) but like-for-like sales growth (organic ...