±±¾©Èü³µpk10 reported this morning that the Havas chairman has this week been preparing to make a bid to take over Aegis, in which he already has a 29.9% stake.
So confident is the Frenchman that he has been asking senior managers at Havas as to how Aegis, which owns media agency Carat and market research firm Synovate, might be integrated.
Aegis shares rose as much as 6p, or 5.5%, to 117.75p this morning on before falling back slightly to 115.25p.
Bollore has previously tried several times to have his representatives appointed to the Aegis board, but the company has strongly resisted approaches and beaten back efforts numerous times.
A report by Reuters following up the original story and quoting an unnamed source described talk of a bid as speculative, but made no denial.
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