Havas blamed on expenditure cuts by key digital client Unilever - and a 6.3% decline in the rest of Europe except France, which gained 8.9%. North America was down 1.7% and Latin America by 4.0%, offsetting

Adam&Eve DDB expanded its Unilever portfolio with a global assignment to relaunch the storied Pear's skincare brand. Another famed brand from yesteryear, Morton Salt - famed for its umbrella girl logo

as well as domestic digital for Unilever's Axe. The group's CRM agency Chemistry added local duties for BMW. In other gains, Dentsu Aegis Network's Carat won global media for Standard Chartered Bank,

Mather has taken over responsibility for Unilever's UK detergent Persil for longtime partner MullenLowe, while in the US, Deutsch was tasked with creative for streaming music service Pandora, out of TwofifteenMcCann.

with the transfer of Unilever's Flora margarine to DLKW Lowe. And in the US, America's best-known branded butter Land O'Lakes transferred its small but prestigious ad account to The Martin Agency after

a former head of Unilever in the US. The resulting group, with sales of $16bn, will manage an odd ragbag of more than 150 different brands across numerous sectors. Newell is currently best-known for its

Clients include Unilever, Vodacom, Microsoft and Tiger Brands. Talks between the two sides were first rumoured in July. Publicis has been especially active in South Africa over the past two years, acquiring

such as Nestle, Unilever or Diageo. A proposed deal for the purchase of French mobile operator Bouygues by larger rival Orange also collapsed at the final hurdle after months of difficult negotiations.

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