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Aegis announces very little

This morning Aegis Group produced another trading statement that is the nearest thing to gobbledegook that a shareholder could ask for. The company summarised several paragraphs of random data with the words: “The results after nine months’ trading allow...

Posted Nov 19 2009, 10:23 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

Filed under: global groups, public companies, Aegis, Royal SunAlliance Group

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Public company profits fall by half, or not?

The striking feature of yesterday's Fintellect report (see below) is not that eleven publicly listed marketing companies have suffered on average a 55% fall in profits between the first half of 2008 and the first half of 2009, but that many of those...

Posted Oct 03 2009, 11:37 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: WPP, Motivcom, public companies, Hasgrove, Aegis, Huntsworth, M&C Saatchi, Next Fifteen Communications Group, Chime Communications, Cello Group, Mission Marketing Group, Adventis

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M&C Saatchi in pretty good shape after profit fall

At first sight a 24.7% fall in operating profit is not good news, but at M&C Saatchi it could have been much worse if its balance sheet was not relatively strong. Indeed the reasons for the decline announced last week were predictable and not life...

Posted Sep 28 2009, 11:34 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

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Aegis’ resilient performance? A loss so far

When Aegis Group chief executive John Napier announced in March that he expected to produce a "resilient performance in more difficult markets in 2009", did he mean that the group might make a loss for the first half at least (see Napier ambiguous...

Posted Aug 28 2009, 08:17 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: public companies, Aegis, Synovate

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Aegis loses CFO in board reshuffle that puts non-execs back in majority

Today's announcement that Aegis Group's chief financial officer Alicja Lesniak will be leaving the company in October is the latest of the moves made by part-time chairman and interim chief executive John Napier to "complete the major part...

Posted Jul 16 2009, 09:13 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

Filed under: WPP, public companies, Aegis, Vincent Bollore, ICI, McKinsey, Guinness, Unilever

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Aegis chairman gets most negative votes at AGM

Somewhat surprisingly the resolution to reappoint chairman and interim chief executive John Napier as a director of Aegis Group had more votes cast against it than any of the other nine resolutions put to the shareholders at today's AGM. In total...

Posted May 22 2009, 06:54 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

Filed under: public companies, Aegis

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Napier ambiguous about Aegis profit prospects for 2009

This morning's statement from Aegis Group's new chief executive John Napier about prospects for 2009 seems somewhat ambiguous. After admitting that revenues experienced an 11.6% organic decline in the first quarter by comparison with a very strong...

Posted May 18 2009, 09:39 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: public companies, Aegis

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Tentative signs that stock market is stabilising: some marketing groups enjoy big rises

Tentative signs that the London stock market is stabilising may be drawn from the 8.4% rise in the FTSE All-Share Index during the month to 12 April. Among marketing services companies the share price movements were anything but consistent, although several...

Posted Apr 13 2009, 10:10 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

Filed under: WPP, Media Square, Motivcom, public companies, Creston, WPP Group, Havas, Hasgrove, Digital Marketing Group, Aegis, Groupe Bolloré, Huntsworth, M&C Saatchi, Next Fifteen Communications Group, Optimisa, Chime Communications, Cello Group, Cagney, Vincent Bollore

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Half the non-executive directors are leaving Aegis

It may be no more than coincidence that, within months of John Napier taking the helm at Aegis, the company has announced that three out of six non-executive directors are to stand down at the next annual general meeting on 22 May. Even more of a coincidence...

Posted Apr 02 2009, 09:38 AM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: public companies, Aegis, Vincent Bollore

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Aegis new broom sweeps clean

Aegis Group's decision to cut its headcount at a cost of around £40 million over two years has not only knocked profits and margins in 2008 but is not expected to pay for itself for at least two years. It's a gamble that new chief executive John...

Posted Mar 25 2009, 09:04 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Aegis

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WPP still propping up its share price

Why have shares in WPP Group and Aegis Group - the two biggest UK marketing services groups listed on the London stock exchange - been enjoying more price stability than many of their counterparts over the past month? At Aegis it's easy to guess that...

Posted Mar 17 2009, 04:51 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

Filed under: global groups, WPP, public companies, Havas, Aegis, Merrill Lynch

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Napier's game plan for Aegis becomes clearer

So now John Napier's game plan for Aegis is becoming clearer. According to press reports investment bankers Merrill Lynch have been appointed to conduct a strategic review and we may therefore assume that a sale or break-u p is high on the agenda...

Posted Jan 13 2009, 08:05 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with no comments

Filed under: Aegis, Merrill Lynch

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Odds still seem stacked against successful Bolloré bid for Aegis

If Vincent Bolloré has serious designs on acquiring Aegis Group - whether to merge it with Havas or otherwise - now may not be the best time to make an offer. The departure of chief executive Robert Lerwill and the downward fall in its share price may...

Posted Dec 01 2008, 06:27 PM by BOB WILLOTT with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: WPP, Taylor Nelson Sofres, public companies, Havas, Aegis, Groupe Bolloré, Harris Interactive

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Aegis announces very little

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Public company profits fall by half, or not?

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M&C Saatchi in pretty good shape after profit fall

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Aegis’ resilient performance? A loss so far

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Aegis loses CFO in board reshuffle that puts non-execs back in majority

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Aegis chairman gets most negative votes at AGM

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Napier ambiguous about Aegis profit prospects for 2009

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Tentative signs that stock market is stabilising: some marketing groups enjoy big rises

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Half the non-executive directors are leaving Aegis

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Aegis new broom sweeps clean

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WPP still propping up its share price

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Napier's game plan for Aegis becomes clearer

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Odds still seem stacked against successful Bolloré bid for Aegis