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Sector share prices: September 2012

The gap between the long depressed level of share prices among marketing communications groups and those within the FTSE All-Share Index narrowed further in the month to 12 September.  The industry’s...

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Stable balance sheets helped public groups through recession

The balance sheets of most publicly listed marketing groups appear to have remained fairly stable during 2011 despite the gloomy economic environment, according to the latest annual analysis of balance...

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Sector share prices: October 2012

A mixture of developments fuelled further growth in the sector’s share price index during the month to 12 October.  The sector’s MSFI Index rose by 5.5% while the FTSE All-Share Index remained almost...

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Chinese approval of Dentsu-Aegis deal still awaited

Aegis Group announced this morning that Chinese approval of Dentsu’s proposed takeover of the company is still awaited.  Clearance is required under the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People’s Republic of...

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Aegis boasts 13.3% revenue boost in year to date

Aegis Group is marking the end of its existence as an independent company by achieving an impressive rate of revenue growth, although that rate seems to be slowing down. This is only a brief excerpt...

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Dentsu’s half year profits up 16.8%, but cautious about future

Dentsu reported a 16.8% increase in post-tax profit for the six months to 30 September as net sales grew by 6.7% and gross income grew by 8.9%.  But the Japanese group has made a slight downward...

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Dentsu takeover of Aegis delayed by Chinese regulatory “discussions”

Aegis Group and Dentsu have agreed to a one month delay in the completion of the takeover of the UK based company to allow the Chinese Ministry of Commerce more time to review the proposals. The...

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Dentsu sells remaining Publicis shares for €181m

Dentsu sold the balance of its shareholding in Publicis Groupe yesterday morning for €181.4 million, ending the link formed when Publicis bought BCom3, in which Dentsu had a substantial shareholding,...

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Aegis takeover disturbed by outstanding Chinese approval

Dentsu revealed today that it is still awaiting approval of its Aegis Group takeover from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, despite having previously announced that it expects the acquisition to be...

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Trading in Aegis shares suspended: Chinese approval received

The Stock Exchange “temporarily” suspended trading in Aegis Group shares from 5pm this evening at the request of the company, presumably in anticipation of completing its sale to Dentsu tomorrow and...

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Chinese listed PR group to invest £36m in Huntsworth

BlueFocus Communication Group, the Chinese public relations company listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange, is to invest £36.5 million in Huntsworth in return for a 19.8% shareholding in the UK listed...

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Bids and Deals: May 2013

Aegis Media, the Dentsu owned media and digital communications group, has acquired the Netherlands social media agency Social Embassy to augment Isobar Netherlands…Y&R Advertising, the WPP owned...

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Anatomy of Aegis

The sale of Aegis Group, the UK’s only independent publicly listed media buying business, to Dentsu in March this year marked the culmination of a strategy designed to break up the under-performing...

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Did Aegis shareholders get out just in time?

The sale of Aegis Group to the Japanese marketing group Dentsu for nearly £3.2 billion last March took place against a background of a falling profit and declining profit margins, and after spending...

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Bids and Deals: July 2013

Aegis Media, part of the Dentsu group, has acquired a majority stake in the Italian digital marketing company Simple Agency…WPP’s advertising network Grey Group has agreed to merge its Portuguese...

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Chinese authorities delay BlueFocus investment in Huntsworth

Huntsworth is the latest UK marketing company to suffer investment delays at the hands of Chinese authorities after the Dentsu-Aegis merger suffered a similar experience at the hands of the Chinese...

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Bids and Deals: September 2013

WPP’s research network Kantar has made a further investment in Enprecis, the Seattle based company that uses a proprietary online platform to collect and analyse data about consumer experience for the...

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Dentsu Europe in £0.5m liquidation shortfall

Mystery surrounds why £0.5 million attributed to investments in subsidiaries was not recovered during the recent liquidation of Dentsu Holdings Europe that coincided with the creation of the Dentsu...

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The Global Greats 2013

In the wake of the Dentsu-Aegis takeover and the proposed Publicis-Omnicom merger, how are the rest of the global marketing companies coping with the back end of a period of depressed economic...

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The race to be biggest reminds us of Aesop’s fable

Figures published today bring to mind Aesop’s fable about the “Hare and the Tortoise” when looking at the proposed marriage of Publicis Groupe with Omnicom Group and the recent acquisition of Aegis...

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