Havas was the first French news agency, created in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency comes from it. On the other hand, Havas itself is now the second largest French advertising group, of which Vincent Bolloré is the main share-holder, and doesn't carry out anymore news activities. Havas is the sixth-largest global advertising and communications group worldwide. A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to organizations in the news trade: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... AFP logo Charles Havas Paris headquarters of AFP Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the oldest news agency in the world. ... Vincent Bolloré (b. ...

History

It bears the name of its founder, Charles-Louis Havas,who established France’s first press agency back in 1835.

In 1968, the advertising department was incorporated to form a société anonyme, Havas Conseil. The new Company expanded its business rapidly and in 1975 became the holding company, under the name Eurocom, of a Group of subsidiaries specializing in various communications activities.

Since the 1970s, the Group has expanded its business significantly in France and internationally, both in the communications and media purchases sectors, by broadening the scope of services that it offers and expanding into new communications technologies.

Havas was first listed on the Paris Bourse (now the Euronext Paris) in 1982. The principal milestones in the Group’s strategic development are the following: Euronext Paris is Frances securities market, formerly known as the Paris Bourse, which merged with the Amsterdam and Brussels exchanges in September 2000 to form Euronext NV, which is the second largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange. ...

1991. Eurocom acquires the French advertising group RSCG, leading to the creation of the Euro RSCG Worldwide advertising network. Eurocom (founded: October 1988) is a UK-based video game developer founded specifically to develop games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. ... Euro RSCG is a French advertising agency with global operations. ...

1996. The company changes its name to Havas Advertising and creates four operating divisions, the largest of which is Euro RSCG whose headquarters are moved to New York in 1997.