Is there anything worse that being a big holding company mired amid client cutbacks and a collapsing media agency business? How about being a small(ish) holding company mired… Havas has reported just 0.1 per cent organic growth in Q3 2017, ...
Read More »Havas boss Bolloré dances round the full service elephant
Here’s Yannick Bolloré talking in a Campaign video about the new Havas – which is merging creative and media – at the launch of his spanking new Havas Village HQ in London’s Kings Cross last week. There appears to be ...
Read More »Havas boss Bolloré brings back the full service agency
It’s taken a while (Saatchi’s Zenith was formed in 1988 in what was described as a shed in London’s Paddington) but it looks as though “full service” has finally returned. It has at Yannick Bolloré’s Havas anyway. From now on ...
Read More »Havas CEO Yannick Bolloré joins father Vincent at French media giant Vivendi
Life’s never dull with a Bolloré or three around and now Vincent Bolloré has tightened his grip on French media giant Vivendi by appointing son Yannick, also CEO of Bolloré-owned Havas, to Vivendi’s supervisory board. Bolloré senior, who has numerous ...
Read More »Havas motors on – but what’s the long term strategy?
Havas seems to be motoring nicely under Yannick Bolloré, reporting organic growth of 5.1 per cent and revenue of €2.2bn for 2015, the first time it’s topped the €2bn mark. Profit was €315m, up 20 per cent on 2014, while ...
Read More »Who’s right about the outlook for ads – Havas’ Yannick Bollore or WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell?
Bollore-owned French marcoms group Havas has just reported a nine per cent increase in 2014 profit to €140m, which is about £100m. WPP, by contrast, made £1.5bn which means that Havas is playing in a rather different division, in financial ...
Read More »Havas boost mobile offer with Plastic Mobile buy
Here’s a new name to conjure with in this confusing (new) world: m-commerce. Mobile, as we know, is growing like topsy although people still struggle to make as much money out of it as its reach indicates they should. But ...
Read More »Vincent Bollore bids for majority stake in Havas
French Tycoon Vincent Bollore, the biggest shareholder in marcoms group Havas with about 36 per cent, is offering a share swap in his family conglomerate Bollore Group which would take his share in Havas to over 50 per cent – ...
Read More »Another blow for Havas empire as Matthew Charlton and Neil Dawson quit BETC London
They do say that the New Year is a popular time for divorces/quitting jobs – maybe too much time to think about it all – and it certainly seems to be the case in adland at the moment. Already this ...
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