One of Mr de Pouzilhac's recent strategies has been to centralise operations in the hope of boosting efficiency.A second strategy is to turn otherwise painful trends to Havas's advantage.
He paints the change as part of a deliberate and sweeping reform of the party's traditionally centralised operation.
Flexitallic Ltd, a manufacturer and supplier of static sealing products, and Sealex Ltd, a distributor of seals, engineered hoses and associated products, are centralising their operations in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
A decade earlier, with its branch numbers now in double figures, Foxtons had centralised its operations around a new headquarters in Chiswick in west London.
Since 2010 several initiatives have been launched, including the introduction of a commissioning academy, creating the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) to beef up government's centralised procurement operation, and training 2,500 officials.
In 1916, the executive board of the state railways wanted to centralise the operation of restaurant carriages and the most important station restaurants in Norway under one management.
Take news: when NBC centralised its newsgathering operations and launched a 24-hour news channel, it also created a new source of revenue.
To be sure, some of the changes were long overdue, especially for a firm that last year seemed to be on its deathbed.Mr Wasserstein has centralised Lazard's operations, which had long been divided among independent entities in Paris, London and New York, and forced stroppy partners to work together and share information on deals.
In 2006, McCormick Foods Australia moved production of Aeroplane Jelly to Clayton, Victoria to centralise its manufacturing operations in Victoria.
