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Yannick Bolloré (born 1 February 1980) is a French businessman. As of 2020 he was the chairman and CEO of Havas, the fifth largest global communications company, and chairman of the supervisory board of Vivendi, a global entertainment, media and communications company whose majority shareholder is the family-controlled Bolloré Group chaired by his brother Cyrille Bolloré and his father ...
As of 2021, Vivendi's chairman Yannick Bolloré is also CEO of Havas, which was spun off from Vivendi in 2000 but has since become a subsidiary. The company is known for its stake in Universal Music Group, which it partially spun off from 2021 until 2024.
The original Havas was the world's first news agency, created in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas.The Agence France-Presse news agency comes from it. Havas was acquired by Vivendi in 1998, and renamed Vivendi Universal Publishing.
The project, which received 97.5% of the votes, will see Canal+ split from Vivendi, along with Havas and Louis Hachette Group which will also be listing separately, in Amsterdam and in Paris ...
Previous CEO David Jones was named CEO of the firm, then named Euro RSCG Worldwide, in 2005. [9] He also became Global CEO of parent company Havas in 2011. [10] Mercedes Erra (Managing Director, Havas) is the executive president of Havas Worldwide, and credited with the company's Evian campaign "Roller Babies," which made headlines and a ...
In 2004 he was promoted to CEO of Euro RSCG New York and in 2005 he succeeded Jim Heekin as CEO of Euro RSCG Worldwide and also taking on duties as directeur general of Havas. [2] In 2006 Euro RSCG became the first agency to be named Global Agency of the Year by both Advertising Age and Campaign in the same year.
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In late 2004, the Bolloré group began taking an interest in the advertising sector, and started building a stake in Havas, becoming its single largest shareholder. In a boardroom coup, Alain de Pouzilhac was deposed as president and CEO on July 12, 2005. The Bolloré stake in Havas stood at 26%, and the group had 3 seats on the Havas board as ...