Publicis Groupe SA News

Advertising group Publicis expects to return to a "normal" level of dividend payout this year after reducing shareholder returns last year so as to buy back shares owned by one-time Japanese partner Dentsu, Chief Executive Maurice Levy said at its annual shareholders' meeting on Tuesday.

THE chief executive of a Burton pub giant has been named as the most influential person in the brewing industry.

For years, litigators cited a lack of judicial guidance as their primary objection to using predictive coding technology.

A historic cornerstone, the pub and restaurant on Station Road has been leased by father and son Stuart and Craig Mackenzie since 2009, but it's believed that it dates back to the 1800s.

Dutton was most recently group finance director of Punch Taverns, between 2007 and 2011.

As a result, only one firm out of the top 10 local listed companies saw a rise in its share price.

Separately, analysts at Citigroup downgraded shares of Publicis Groupe S.A. from a "buy" rating to a "neutral" rating in a research note to investors on Wednesday, February 22nd.

PRINCETON, N.J., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- More than half of consumers prefer to do their banking online and nearly half would do all of their banking online if they could.

Separately, analysts at Citigroup downgraded shares of Publicis Groupe S.A. from a "buy" rating to a "neutral" rating in a research note to investors on Wednesday, February 22nd.

Pub operator Punch Taverns is in the middle of a turnaround plan that involves selling its 2,000 worst-performing site Britain's biggest pub operator has reportedly started controversial talks to reduce its A 2.3 billion debt mountain which are set to spark a bitter battle for control of the company.

A third city pub on the same road has closed as experts warn the industry continues to struggle with the effects of the smoking ban and rising cost of beer.

Jean-Yves Naouri may divide opinion but the ex-paratrooper is well-equipped to see off the opposition and succeed Maurice Levy as the next chief executive of Publicis Groupe.

It's early days for audience-based media buying in China, but e-commerce spending is already huge and has the potential to outstrip the U.S. by 2015, per Forrester .

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French advertising company Publicis Groupe SA acquired Chinese digital-marketing company Longtuo in a bid to ramp up competition with rivals and to gain strength online as China's mounting television regulations push advertisers to the Web.

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In The Conflict , a provocative new book that was a best seller in Europe and is predictably making waves in the U.S., leading French intellectual Elisabeth Badinter argues that women have become newly enslaved by biology - more specifically, by their breasts.

Residents in South Stoke and Odd Down are determined to do all they can to halt plans to use the Packhorse pub for offices.

BREWING giant Molson Coors led the way in what proved to be a tough week for the region's listed companies.

Ms. Middleton, 46, who raised two young children alone after her first husband passed away, makes it clear that she's been down that road.