Excluding the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and currency changes, sales increased 5percentt.
Excluding the impact of acquisitions, operating profits rose from £69m to £72m, a 3.9% rise.
The slower growth anticipated for next year is also largely because of the timing and impact of acquisitions and outside investments.
The company, which is controlled by ABRY Partners, has lost money in recent years because of its heavy debt and the accounting impact of acquisitions from 1999 to 2001.
Discounting the impact of acquisitions and spinoffs, the company said its revenue from continuing operations was $5.84 billion in the most recent quarter.
Elsewhere marketing group Aegis is down 5.25p to 81.75p after it said first quarter revenues had fallen 11.6%, excluding the impact of acquisitions and currency movements.
The publisher said that total turnover from its newspaper and printing operations fell 7.2% to £44.9m, on a like-for-like basis that excludes the impact of acquisitions.
Ms. Fine concedes that it may be difficult for those agencies to replicate the sharp revenue increases -- 16percentt at Omnicom and WPP, 15percentt at Interpublic, even before the impact of acquisitions -- that they enjoyed last year.
Discounting the impact of acquisitions and spinoffs, Lucent said its continuing operations lost $1.02 billion, or 30 cents a share, in the most recent quarter, down from a profit of $1.08 billion, or 33 cents a share, in the period a year earlier.
Excluding the impact of acquisitions and spin-offs -- what might be called results from continuing operations in American financial parlance -- Vivendi's revenue increased by about 8percentt in the third quarter, compared with the period a year earlier.
