Havas Billings Up; Circle.com Doubtful/

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BOSTON-Havas Advertising Wednesday said its billings rose 35.8% to 7.2 billion euros, or about $6.17 billion, for the first nine months of the year.

Excluding acquisitions, billings rose 21.9%, and excluding currency fluctuations, the rise was 13.5%, the Paris-based advertising conglomerate said.

The numbers do not reflect billings of Snyder Communications, which Havas acquired in September for $2.1 billion. Snyder, of Bethesda, Md., owns the Boston ad agency Arnold Worldwide and the interactive shop Circle.com, Baltimore.

Arnold, under chief executive Ed Eskandarian, is being used as a springboard for a new agency network and plans acquisitions in Asia, Australia and New York.





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