PARIS, September 24 /PRNewswire/ --     Publicis Groupe today announced the acquisition of SAS
communications agency, which immediately joins the Publicis Consultants -
Worldwide network. The move is in line with Publicis Groupe's strategy of
targeted acquisitions designed to reinforce its offer in marketing services.

SAS is specialized in corporate, design, and visual
communications. The London-based agency lines up alongside masius - Publicis
Consultants, Publicis Consultants - PR, and design agency Carre Noir London
to strengthen the presence of Publicis Consultants - UK.

With SAS on board, Publicis Consultants - UK will now be able
to deliver a complete holistic offer to clients, from public relations,
design capabilities, and corporate communication, to stakeholder and employee
communications expertise, digital content development, brand creation, as
well as strategic brand management and execution plans. Publicis Consultants
- UK is well equipped to serve clients in the UK such as Sainsbury's, 3I,
Hewlett Packard, Guinness, AXA, BAA Retail, The London Stock Exchange,
Thomson, Volvo, Ernst & Young, UBS, Jupiter, City Index, among others.

SAS Managing Director Jeremy Sice will assume the role of CEO
of Publicis Consultants - UK, working closely with the leadership teams of
all four agencies to provide ever more effective solutions for existing
clients and to develop important new business opportunities in the world's
third largest advertising and communications market.

Eric Giuily, Publicis Consultants - Worldwide CEO says: "Our
multi-specialist network is growing fast and London is an important center
for us. We have been looking for some time to broaden our offer to our
existing and potential clients in the UK. The reputation and creative
strengths that SAS bring to us are a significant boost for our fast-paced
growth plans, and we see a strong strategic and cultural synergy with our own
entrepreneurial spirit."

As Jeremy Sice, newly named CEO of Publicis Consultants - UK
explains: "This deal will enable us to provide our clients with a smart,
media-neutral approach to communications and engagement that is genuinely
audience rather than media driven. With a natural fit of skills, with no
cross over and a team that shares our ambitions - I'm sure that the future is
going to be interesting for all concerned."

About SAS

SAS is an independent corporate design and communications
agency, with over 50 employees. The agency was founded in 1989 as a creative
agency with expertise in visual communication and engagement. SAS works with
its clients to enhance perception, engagement, loyalty and relationships with
their key corporate audiences: investors, employees, business customers and
other key external stakeholder audiences. SAS seeks to measure the
effectiveness of its input through tangible changes in the attraction,
retention and motivation of those audiences. Its integrated communications
solutions embrace print, digital and face-to-face activity, taking in
everything from Financial & corporate communication to employee communication
and engagement at all levels and B2B marketing Communications. SAS's
customers are FTSE250 and/or businesses with equivalent revenue levels and
include 3i, Freshfields, Land Securities, BT, Logica and Ernst & Young, among
others.

Web site: http://www.sasdesign.co.uk

About Publicis Consultants - Worldwide

Publicis Consultants - Worldwide is a fast-growing network of
agencies that provide strategic communications and counsel to companies,
brands and institutions. Between wholly-owned agencies, subsidiaries, and
partners, Publicis Consultants - Worldwide offers a service network of 54
agencies in 23 countries and is gaining momentum throughout the industry. The
company's over 1250 collaborators support their clients by building and
expressing their identity, image & reputation, and relationship strategies in
response to evolving communications needs and demands. Utilizing the benefits
of local market knowledge together with the backing of an extended global
network, Publicis Consultants - Worldwide offers clients state-of-the-art
holistic communications services.

Web site: http://www.publicis-consultants.com

About Publicis Groupe

Publicis Groupe (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577) is the world's
fourth largest communications group, as well as world's second largest media
counsel and buying group. With activities spanning 104 countries on five
continents, the Groupe employs approximately 44,000 professionals.

The Groupe's communication activities cover advertising,
through three autonomous global advertising networks: Leo Burnett, Publicis,
Saatchi & Saatchi, as well as through its two multi-hub networks Fallon and
49%-owned Bartle Bogle Hegarty; media consultancy and buying through two
worldwide networks ZenithOptimedia and Starcom MediaVest Group; interactive
and digital marketing, marketing services and specialized communications
including direct marketing, public relations, corporate and financial
communications, event communications, multicultural and with a worldwide
leadership in healthcare communications.

Web site: http://www.publicisgroupe.com

Contacts:

    Publicis Groupe:
    Eve Magnant, Corporate Communications
    +33-(0)1-44-43-70-25
    Martine Hue, Investor Relations
    +33-(0)1-44-43-65-00

    Publicis Consultants:
    Elsa Courtois
    +33-(0)1-44-43-79-43

    SAS: 
    Jeremy Sice
    +44-(0)20-7243-3232