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  • Publicis reports increased 3Q revenues courtesy US, Asia

    PARIS: Publicis the world’s fourth largest communications group has announced that consolidated revenues reached 2.79 billion euros for the quarter ended 30 September 2003. For the corresponding period last year the figure stood at 1.77 billion euros. This signifies an increase of 58 per cent.
     
     
     
    In addition to new business won, Publicis Group effectively benefited from the improvement in the global advertising market, powered by the recovery evident for the past several months in North America and in the Asia-Pacific region. There are also encouraging signs in the European market, with relative improvement in Spain and of stabilisation in Germany.

    However the European marketplace as a whole remains in negative in terms of organic growth, notably in France. In Latin America, the noticeable improvement in several markets during the third quarter made up for a decrease in Brazil.

    Publicis CEO Maurice Levy admitted that while the global advertising market continued to improve the situation in Europe remains a concern. “If the German market seems to be stabilising, several significant European markets still remain difficult. The year 2003 should nevertheless provide us with the first year of growth in the advertising market for three years,” he said.

    Publicis is hopeful about the ad market for next year since the biggest sporting spectacle the Olympics takes place in Athens in August. In addition the Euro 2004 soccer tournament should also give the depressed European environment a boost.

    In the third quarter the amount of net new business won by all networks of Publicis rose to $600 million (515 million euros), This figure includes the loss of the global Philips account and of Carrefour in France. This brings to $2.7 billion (2.3 billion euros) the total net new business won during the first three quarters of the year. Out of this nearly 60 per cent is in advertising. In India Publicis Worldwide acquired the account of L’Oreal/Garnier. Actresses Andie McDowell and Aishwarya Rai are two of the fragrances well known faces.

    Another unit Saatchi & Saatchi won the International Olympic Committee worldwide account outside of the US. It also won Emirates Airlines in Europe, Danone in Asia, several Toyota accounts in the US. The Leo Burnett agency bagged Canon in Australia, Mobinil in Egypt, McDonald’s in Indonesia, Petronas Dagang in Malaysia and Uni/President in Taiwan.

  • BSNL plans increased connectivity in Karnataka

    BANGALORE: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) plans to take more fixed line and mobile connections to villages in Karnataka, by providing one connection each to around 1500 villages that have a population of 2000 or more.
     

    Whilst approximately 600 villages have already been provided with connections, the rest would be connected by March 2006. CDMA mobile connections would also be taken to more towns, villages and rural areas in the state.

    According to BSNL Karnataka circle chief general manager Rama Ganapathi, plans are afoot to increase the CellOne connections to 1.6 million from the present 740,000 approximate connections in the circle. Ganapathi also revealed that tele-density had increased from 4 percent in 1996 to 26.2 percent presently in the urban areas, and from 0.3 percent to 1.74 percent in the rural areas. BSNL is making efforts for phone on demand, though presently there was a wait list of 92,000.
     
     

    A proposal has been put forth before the state government to develop a wide area network (WAN) for all their e-governance projects up to the taluk level.

    As per media reports, landline, WLL and cellular ISD call rates to SAARC countries, Africa, Australia, Saudi Arabia are set to fall by 33 percent starting Saturday. A 25 per cent cut on leased lines for 2 MB and higher bandwidth connections has also been announced.