Havas

Havas is a French group present in the Publicité, mainly with the Advertizing agency Euro RSCG in France, Arnold Worldwide in the United States, and the purchase of space media, mainly with Havas Media.

Havas is today the second advertizing group of France, and the sixth universally. It is with dimensions with the Bourse de Paris.

History

Havas is resulting from the first News agency created in France, in 1835, by Charles-Louis Havas, in the hotel of Talaru. Havas, repurchased by Vivendi in 1998, is famous Vivendi Universal Publishing. The Havas group of today is the heir to Havas Advertizing, a subsidiary company of old the Havas of which it acquired the right to exploit the name in 2002.

From 1989 to 2005, Alain de Pouzilhac is the president. At the time of its presidency and according to the tendency of the sector to consolidate itself, Havas adopts a strategy of very aggressive external growth between 1998 and 2001 in order to become a world company.

In 1999, it makes progress the size of its division of purchase of space with an acquisition of a holding in Media Planning S.A., a company Spanish prisoner by the Rodés family.

In 2000, Havas takes control of Snyder Inc, an american company in the trades of marketing support. Moreover, it adds of it the acquisition of a hundred agencies: The strategy carried out for this period was criticized like “hazardous”.

June 21st, 2005, of Pouzilhac resigns of the presidency of the group after one year of arm wrestling with the new principal shareholder, Bolloré, which enters to the board of directors to which it obtains four places for his delegates.

Vincent Bolloré is today Chairman of the board, Fernando Rodés, wire of the founder of Media Planning S.A. is named Managing director on March 10th, 2006.

  • 1835 : creation of the Agency of the political sheets, the first news agency in the world, by Charles-Louis Havas.

  • 1852-1857: the group of Charles-Louis Havas is divided into two branches, one for information (future the AFP) and the other for publicity.
  • 1879: the Havas Agency is made up in Public limit company.
  • 1920: the fusion of the Havas Agency with the General society of Advertisements radically transforms the company which is essential like first manager of press. This activity is then extended to the sectors of the radio and the cinema.
  • 1923, it launches out in posting.
  • 1945: the Havas Agency is nationalized. It launches out in tourism. It extends then its activities to the free press, the professional press, the edition and television with toll.
  • 1968: creation of Havas the Council S.A.
  • 1975: Havas Conseil S.A. becomes Eurocom
  • 1987: the Havas Agency is privatisée and takes the denomination of Havas S.A.
  • 1996: Eurocom S.A. becomes Havas Advertizing S.A.
  • 1997: Havas SA absorbs C.E.P. Communication
  • 1999: Havas becomes a subsidiary company with 100% of Vivendi;
  • 2000: Havas, famous Vivendi Universal Publishing, disengages itself of Havas Advertizing
  • 2002: Havas Advertizing repurchases the rights of exploitation of the name Havas
  • 2004: The business man Vincent Bolloré starts to take participation in Havas
  • 2005: The election at the general meeting of four administrators “Bolloré” with the council with a participation of 22%, Bolloré names thereafter President of Havas on June 21st, 2005.

Direction

Presidents

Press group

Group advertizing (ex Havas Advertizing)

  • Alain de Pouzilhac: 1989 to 2005
  • Richard Colker: 2005 (interim)
  • Vincent Bolloré: since 2005

Chairman and managing directors

Press group

  • Jacques Soft: 1967 to 1982
  • Pierre Dauzier: 1982 to 1997
  • Jean-Marie Messier: 1997 to 2002

Group advertizing (ex Havas Advertizing)

  • Alain de Pouzilhac: 1989 to 2005
  • Richard Colker: 2005 (interim)
  • Philippe Wahl: 2005 to 2006
  • Fernando Ground: since March 2006

Board of directors

The Annual general meeting of the shareholders, joined together on June 12th, 2006, announces that the board of directors of Havas from now on is composed of Vincent Bolloré, Jacques Séguéla, ED Eskandarian, Fernando Rodés Vilà, Cédric de Bailliencourt, representative Bolloré Investissement, Marc Bebon, representative Bolloré Médias Investments, Richard Colker, Pierre Lescure, Thierry Marraud, Leopoldo Rodés Castañe, Patrick Soulard and the companies Havas International and Euro RSCG.

Trades

The Havas group is present in the Publicité with Euro RSCG.

It also comprises a branch specialized in the purchase of space Médias with Havas Médias made up of five networks, MPG, Arena (council and purchase of space) Havas Sport (communication 360° by the sport), Havas Entertainment and Média Contacts (digital marketing).

It also makes trading of space media within a joint venture with WPP.

Financial data

Stock exchange data

Shareholders

At end 2005, the shareholders are distributed between:
  • Floating 73.5%
  • Financial of the Log (Bolloré) 20.2%
  • Family Delgados 3.7%
  • Family Ground 2.6%

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