Publicis boss Maurice Lévy points to clients downsizing accounts and cancelling campaigns for slow third quarter
Publicis Groupe shares dropped by as much as a tenth after the Paris-based PR and advertising giant blamed ”an unusually large number of clients” downsizing, cancelling or delaying their campaigns in the third quarter.
Failing to hit targets with only 0.7 per cent growth in organic revenue in the three months rolling up to September, Publicis reduced its growth outlook to one per cent growth – substantially below the 2.5 per cent target.
Lévy attributed the slump this to “an unusually large number of clients downsizing accounts and postponing or even cancelling campaigns”. Many of these issues were concentrated in the North Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
