Publicis Groupe S.A.

Recent Events

News & Analysis

publicis and publicis groupe s.a. - All News and Analysis

• Earnings: Publicis Groupe Declares Downturn Over, Restates Digital Ambitions

  PaidContent - 2009-10-27

  Many in the media world are still struggling through the slashed budgets and changed business models, but at least for French advertising group Publicis the ad spend downturn is over. In its Q309 earnings release pdf on Tuesday, the company declared that the ad market reached its lowest point...

  Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Publicis Groupe S.A., Razorfish, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Finance, Advertising, Marketing, Money, Companies, Publicis, Countries, Europe, France, Patrick Smith

• Publicis Groupe's Digital Media Investment Chief Tim Hanlon Signs Off

  PaidContent - 2009-10-15

  French ad holding company Publicis Groupe is losing its top digital media M&A and investment exec: Tim Hanlon. Hanlon serves as EVP and managing director of VivaKi Ventures, Publicis’ new media VC arm; Mediapost reports that he’s leaving the company at the end of the month. The news comes...

  Tags: Digital Media, Publicis Groupe S.A., Hanlon, Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Marketing, Finance, Industry Moves, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Publicis, Tameka Kee

• Publicis' David Kenny On Razorfish Buy: Digital Revs Now 25 Percent Of Total Revenues

  PaidContent - 2009-08-10

  By acquiring interactive agency Razorfish from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Publicis Groupe has now attained a goal outlined by CEO Maurice Levy shortly after the Paris-based ad holding company bought Digitas nearly three years ago: 25 percent of its revenues will now be digital. The $530 million deal also satisfies...

  Tags: Revenue, Publicis Groupe S.A., Razorfish, Publicis, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Companies, Microsoft, David Kaplan, Microsoft Corp.

• Publicis buys Microsoft's Razorfish for USD530m

  Strategy Eye - 2009-08-09

  Publicis is buying Microsoft's digital marketing arm, Razorfish, for roughly USD530m as part of a five-year search ad agreement. Publicis claims the deal will mean that its digital operations will make up 25% of its annual revenues, hitting an internal target a year ahead of schedule. ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Publicis Groupe S.A., Razorfish, Microsoft Corp., Publicis, Search, Avenue A/Razorfish, Andrew McDonald

• Publicis nears Razorfish acquisition

  Financial Times - 2009-08-06

  Publicis Groupe is closing in on an acquisition of Razorfish, Microsoft's digital advertising agency, and could agree final terms by early next week, according to people familiar with the negotiations.The situation remains fluid, but the French communications company behind Digitas, Leo Burnett and Zenith Optimedia has taken the lead...

  Tags: Acquisition, Advertisement, Publicis Groupe S.A., Razorfish, Microsoft Corp., Publicis, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Financial Times

• Freud makes pounds 14m from sale of his PR company

  - 2005-06-17

  Matthew Freud, the PR guru, has become one of the richest public relations executives in the UK by selling part of a pounds 30m shareholding in his eponymous firm to the French advertising giant Publicis. The son-in-law of Rupert Murdoch and son of former Liberal MP Sir...

  Tags: Publicis, Publicis Groupe S.A.

• French Advertising Firm Publicis Buys into Miami Agency.

  - 2001-03-20

  By Michele Chandler, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 20--Sanchez & Levitan, a Miami advertising and public relations agency, has sold a 49 percent interest of the company to the French advertising firm Publicis, part of the Publicis Groupe S.A....

  Tags: Publicis, Publicis Groupe S.A.