Cannes Chairman Ends Threat of Ban on German Judges

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NEW YORK — The International Advertising Festival in Cannes has said it won’t ban German judges, a move that had been threatened after a dispute last month with several German agencies, according to Carsten Heintzsch, a spokesman for the German agencies and executive creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi, Frankfurt.

The conflict began over the exclusion of the Eurobest awards (owned by the Hatchuel family, which also owns the Cannes festival) from the Creative Index, a list of awards shows that 18 German agencies had agreed to enter as a way to cut costs and level the playing field among competing agencies.

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