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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$25.5B
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Shouting it out from worldwide rooftops! Publicis Groupe, S.A. (NYSE: PUB (ADR); Euronext Paris: FR0000130577 ) is the second largest advertising and fourth largest media services companies in the world. It provides services such as creative advertising, media and campaign planning, marketing, and public relations. Some of its brands are Leo Burnett, Publicis, and Saatchi & Saatchi, and its clients include Coca-Cola, Hewlett-Packard, Procter & Gamble. Founded in 1926 and based in Paris, France, this A4,1 billion company employs about 36,000 people. In fiscal 2005 additions to the company included eventive, the leader in event communications in Austria and Germany, which is joining Publicis Events Worldwide; Solutions, the number-one marketing service agency in India; and PharmaConsult, a leader for healthcare communications in Spain. Acquisitions also included a majority interest in Freud Communications, a leading public relations agency in the UK. In April 2006 the company acquired an additional 21% stake, raising the total to 51%, in Capital MS&L, an international financial communications firm. .
Number of Employees 45,000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Advertising Agencies: 541810
Recent Events
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2nd UPDATE: Publicis Sees Better 4Q, Return To Growth In '10
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UPDATE: 4 Big Ad Agencies Back Microsoft-Yahoo Search Pact
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Publicis Groupe Finalizes Acquisition Of Razorfish
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Publicis to Buy Microsoft's Razorfish
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Razorfish Sale, Microhoo Conditions
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Publicis Groupe to Acquire Razorfish From Microsoft Corporation
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Ad CEOs Say Bottom Seems at Hand
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EARNINGS PREVIEW: European Media Agencies Face Trough In 2Q
News & Analysis
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Agencies; Media planner: the names, stats and insight you will need for the coming year in marketing.(rankings of advertising agencies)(Brief article)
- 2008-01-07
From the top: Forget advertising's Big Four. It's really the Big Two and the other two. Full-year 2007 results aren't in yet, but revenue for the first nine months shows how the ranking is tightening up. No. 2 WPP Group ($8.75 billion through September) isn't far...
WPP prepares to pounce on Grey
- 2004-07-15
It's July again. Time, surely, you may have been thinking as news filtered through of the Grey Global auction, for another episode of the Maurice and Martin show. Sadly, on this occasion, the usual verbal fisticuffs--not to mention dubious last-minute intervention by exotic, chess-loving strawberry blondes--is off the...
WPP, Publicis home in on Grey as field of bidders narrows; Conflicts of interest, finances deter some from pursuing last large indie ad agency.(News)(advertising agency for sale)
- 2004-07-05
Byline: lisa sanders and normandy madden The race to acquire Manhattan-based advertising agency Grey Global Group has narrowed to two contenders: British WPP Group and French giant Publicis Groupe. When news broke last month that Grey, the last large independent agency,...
Publicis and WPP battle it out for Grey
- 2004-07-01
The $1.3bn (700m [pounds sterling]) bid battle for Grey Global is believed to have narrowed to two players, Publicis Groupe and WPP Group, although Japanese marketing services conglomerate Dentsu has shown an interest. Publicis--through its advertising network subsidiaries Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi--shares a core client with...
Chicago Tribune Marketing Column.
- 2003-09-05
By Jim Kirk, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 5--PARIS--Martin Sorrell and Maurice Levy, chief executives of two of the world's biggest advertising holding companies, haven't been close buddies in recent months, having sparred over, among other things, the remains ...
Publicis to pay full price for Zenith.(The World: Ad Age Global News & Data)(Brief Article)
- 2003-08-18
Byline: Mercedes M. Cardona [Paris] Publicis Groupe will likely pay the full price of $120.7 million, or 75 million British pounds, to acquire the 25% stake in ZenithOptimedia it doesn't already own, said Chairman-CEO Maurice Levy. He told analysts he had reached a verbal...
Cordiant bid puts Patts sale in doubt.
- 2003-06-16
Jun 16, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The end of Cordiant Communications Group has raised concerns about the Australian agency George Patterson Bates. Cordiant announced, on 29 May 2003, that 70 per cent of the Bates agency would be sold to...
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