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4 unusual facts about Havas


Havas

SNC was a listed communications group controlled by Daniel Snyder, and their activities were mainly outsourced marketing services, such as Direct marketing, database marketing, proprietary product sampling, sponsored information display in prime locations, call centres, field sales.

Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer/Euro RSCG

Messner Vetere Berger Carey Schmetterer was acquired by French Advertising agency RSCG which later was acquired by Eurocom, a division of Havas.

Stalin's alleged speech of 19 August 1939

The first version of this speech was published, partially, on 28 November 1939, in the Paris newspaper Le Temps by the news agency Havas despatch from Geneva.

Vincent Bolloré

In late 2004, his investment group started building a stake in advertising group Havas, becoming its largest single shareholder.


1835 in France

Charles-Louis Havas creates Havas, the first French news agency (which later spawned Agence France-Presse)

Bernhard Wolff

He was editor of the Vossische Zeitung, founder of the National Zeitung (1848-1938), and founder of Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau (1849-1934), one of the first press agencies in Europe and one of the three great European telegraph monopolies until the World War II-era, the other two being the English Reuters and the French Havas.

Bob Schmetterer

In 1984 Bob Schmetterer became President and Chief Executive Officer of an international joint venture with Young & Rubicam of New York and Eurocom S.A. of Paris, France: HCM Advertising Worldwide (Havas Conseil Marsteller).

Frédéric Havas

Frédéric Havas (born May 17, 1973) is a retired volleyball player from France, who earned a total number of 138 caps for the Men's National Team.

Guglielmo Stefani

Agenzia Stefani (Agenzia Telegrafica Stefani) was founded by Stefani in Turin, Italy in 1854, at a time when news agencies were also being established in other major European cities: Charles-Louis Havas established the Havas agency in Paris in 1836, Dr. Bernard Wolff established an agency in Berlin in 1849, and Paul Reuter established Reuters in London in 1858 (relocating from Aachen, where it had been established in 1851).

Guillaume Schnaebelé

On April 21, 1887, the French Havas news agency published a dispatch to the effect that Schnaebelé, a mid-level and obscure French police inspector, had been arrested by two agents of the German secret police on the Franco-German frontier near Pagny-sur-Moselle, as he was on his way to Ars-sur-Moselle for a meeting with the German police inspector there, at the latter's request.

Havas Worldwide

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 mention in the Guinness Book of World Records for receiving over 75 million views.

Havas Worldwide works with 78 of the 100 largest global advertisers including Air France, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Danone Group, IBM, Kraft Foods, Lacoste, Merck, Pernod Ricard, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Reckitt Benckiser, Sanofi, and Volvo.

Justin Jones

There he founded And Also The Trees together with Nick and Graham Havas and his brother Simon Huw Jones.


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