Publicis in upheaval

Not everything that is currently happening at Publicis has been made public: in Lausanne, where the Nestlé budget has been lost, massive changes are apparently on the cards. Executives are resigning because there is talk of closing the agency. Who will go to Zurich? Will it soon be "the harder they come"? In any case, it is now official that Diana Strebel will be leaving Publicis, Zurich, at the beginning of 2002 "to take on new challenges". She has various options. She does not yet want to say what it might ultimately be. "But it could be of interest to you," she reveals to WerbeWoche. Her first priority now, however, is to say goodbye to Publicis in style. With great professional competence and personal commitment, she has in particular "promoted the quality of strategic planning" and "institutionalized" this now indispensable working tool in the agency, Fredy Collioud thanks his Managing Director Consulting in his farewell and promises to inform us soon about how the Management Board is to be reorganized. (pan)