This leaves Havas a weak number six in an industry increasingly dominated by giants.
He even admits mulling a takeover of Havas, his slightly larger crosstown rival in Paris.
Publicis does not want to risk conflict between its clients and those of Havas.
During my leadership tenure both Berlin Cameron and Havas, respectively, were named "Agency of the Year" multiple times.
Another deal with French advertising holding company Havas is designed to develop Yahoo!'
RSCG, an agency network, is responsible for the bulk of the Havas's revenue.
Only two women made the cut in Lianne La Havas and Ware, who performed at Wednesday's nominations launch in London.
Euro RSCG, a unit of Havas, a French advertising group, acquired its own music label, called The Hours, in 2008.
And surely some business will be transacted during One Young World, which is sponsored by the global advertising group Havas.
Ben Howard's Every Kingdom and Lianne La Havas's Is Your Love Big Enough? are the other nominees in the latter category.
By establishing the new French mini network and maintaining their association to it, Havas can eat their gateaux and have it too.
Havas, too, has branched out into an area not typically associated with advertising by acquiring Cake, a British entertainment and event-planning agency.
Yet although shares in Havas have jumped since he started to buy them, they would quickly fall if he were known to be selling.
But, so far, neither private-equity firms nor the big four are showing much interest in Havas, says Nicolas Gindre at Kepler Equities, a brokerage.
But Havas could raise its offer, receiving encouragement from the relationship between WPP's chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell and Tempus' founder and chief executive Chris Ingram.
And now it has transmogrified into Havas, straying from the lineage of an agency that once created advertising held in high regard for the likes of MCI and Volvo.
Big name French companies that have announced job losses and layoffs recently include car-maker Renault, advertising firm Havas - trimming 5% of its workforce - plane maker EADS, and Air France.
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