Tag Archives: Vincent Bollore

What will they think next? Why, a hashtag to supply (not very much) electricity, of course. Havas Media Group Asia Pacific is investing in a social innovation called “Heartbot” – a machine that turns a set of identified hashtags into ...

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 ...

Havas CEO David Jones has been chatting to the Daily Telegraph in London and, inter alia, has claimed that the impending $35bn Omnicom/Publicis merger means that “Publicis has been sold to the Americans but nobody has worked it out yet.” ...

The more you think about a post-PubliCom agency world the more the name Havas crops up. Over the past decade or more Havas has steadily lost ground to its ancient French rival Publicis but now, following the proposed merger between ...

Post PubliCom merger ripples are still being felt all over the place and my spies in the Far East are busy speculating – over the clink of their properly made gin and tonics in the Raffles Hotel – that a ...

Havas chairman Vincent Bollore is planning to promote elder son Yannick (left) to replace him when he steps down later this year. He has also promoted younger son Cyrille to be his deputy at family-owned Bollore Group, which holds the ...

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 ...

And then there was one. Back in April Havas bought Boulder, Colorado crowd-sourcing agency Victors & Spoils in what looked to some like an audacious bet on the future, to others complete madness. Co-founder Claudia Batten was off to set ...