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Havas increased its revenues by 11 per cent in the third quarter of this year to $546m but organic growth was down to the same disappointing levels of about two per cent reported by rivals WPP and Publicis Groupe; more ...

It’s quite tough in the Champion’s League of consumer goods companies at the moment as the likes of Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Reckitt Benckiser struggle with higher input prices and price-conscious consumers, particular in stagnating Western Europe. Anglo-Dutch ...

It’s two from WPP versus one from Omnicom in the shoot-out for HSBC’s $600m global account (according to Campaign) with incumbent JWT and Grey up against BBDO spearheaded by the UK’s AMV/BBDO. Despite the numerical disadvantage you’d have to make ...

The big marcoms companies have rather enjoyed the sagging global economy over the past couple of years, managing to increase revenue and earnings by rather more than most other sectors, apart from freaky performances like Apple’s (Apple is almost a ...

He might be, Boserup (left) is joining GroupM (which oversees WPP’s four big media agencies) as global CEO GroupM Trading tasked with aligning trading activities in each of the agencies. Not just that, but he joins after 17 years at ...

Interpublic CEO Michael Roth might have turned the company around in financial terms but his big agency brands (headed by McCann, DraftFCB and Lowe) are struggling big time. Now Johnson & Johnson, which spends about $2.7bn globally including $2bn in ...

No-one actually as Unilever has decided to keep its media buying for Western Europe with WPP’s Mindshare and that for Eastern Europe and China with Omnicom’s PHD. As Unilever, which spends nearly $7bn on advertising globally a year, also decided ...

Interbrand has produced its annual list of the top 100 global brands and Apple, which usually appears mystifyingly far down such lists, has almost made it to number one, rising 129 per cent to $77bn which puts it just $1bn ...

Some Wall Street types think Interpublic, the alleged subject of a $6bn bid from Publicis Groupe a few weeks ago (denied by both parties, more energetically by PG) is still in play. Forbes reports that CEO Michael Roth (left) has ...