Havas has acquired London-based healthcare PR agency Just:Health Communications, founded in 2006 by two Chandler Chicco alums.
Havas CEO Yannick Bollore announced the deal, among four others, at the Cannes Lions awards festival in France today. The ad/PR conglom has also snapped up Grupo Tribu (Central America), Greonlandia and Islandia (Chile).
Jennie Talman, who led CC's London office, and Emma Crozier, another CC UK hand, are founders of JHC. The firms roster has included Abbvie, Roche and GalxoSmithKline. Its US partners included Makovsky and SmithSolve Communications.
Havas' Bollore, 35, said in Cannes that demand in the US and Latin America has him aiming for five percent organic growth this year.
Lo Isidro, senior director at Real Chemistry with more than a decade of strategic communications and PA experience, has joined Narrative Strategies.
Nelson Fernandez, former North American chair of APCO Worldwide and managing director of Burson-Marsteller, has joined Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires as director of communications and PA.
Lilit Bargar, who was most recently an EVP in the healthcare practice at Weber Shandwick, comes on board at GCI Health as EVP, corporate practice lead.
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