In the UK, Havas Worldwide raided Adam&Eve DDB to poach group managing director Xavier Rees. He was named as the new CEO of Havas Worldwide London, reporting to Europe chief Chris Hirst. M&C Saatchi

Ingram agreed a deal to sell his business to Havas advertising for around £425m ($603m). Under this plan, Tempus would merge with Havas advertising's existing Media Planning Group operation, greatly

out of Havas), Australian department store David Jones (out of TBWA), and JDE's Kenco coffee brand in the UK (out of JWT). Click here for a summary of other account changes this quarter or here for the

later Havas). Crucially, Leclabart negotiated a large minority shareholding in the newly created Australie which allowed him to block various subsequent attempts to merge the business into other Eurocom

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Group successfully completed its tender for shares in Havas, accumulating a total of almost 73% of the marketing group's share capital. The remaining shares continue to be publicly owned. WPP increased

followed by Publicis at -5.6%, WPP on -7.6%, Havas at -10.4%, Omnicom with -11.7% and MDC trailing with -16.4%. Adbrands Daily Update 29th Oct 2020: LVMH and Tiffany rescued their deal from litigation

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Havas Media captured games software company Ubisoft's media in Europe (from Maxus), as well as Australian insurer QBE. However it surrendered Warner Music in France to Vizeum. French mobile carrier Bouygues

messages on behalf of advertisers and supply them to the Havas press agency which had a virtual monopoly on all print advertising. Most advertisers, however, avoided the use of an agency and dealt direct