Publicis Suffers Organic Revenue Slide

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BOSTON Account losses and poorly performing healthcare clients contributed to weak first-half and Q2 performances by Publicis Groupe, the Paris-based holding company said today.

Revenue for the first half of 2007 was about $3.1 billion, an increase of 1.5 percent in organic terms compared to nearly 7 percent in the same period last year. (Organic growth factors out acquisitions and currency fluctuations.) Net income for the first half was basically flat at $270 million compared to the first six months of 2006.

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